Re: HVAC Is Gay {was: Re: Metric System Is Gay}

On Jul 3, 7:27=A0am, "Alex W." <ing...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> A guinea is =A31-1s-0d (which is =A31.05) and could be written as '1g'
or=
 '1gn'
> or, in the plural, '3gs' or '3gns'. It is considered a more gentlemanly
> amount than =A31. You pay tradesmen, such as a carpenter, in pounds but
> gentlemen, such as an artist, in guineas. It is a tradition in the legal
> profession that a barrister is paid in guineas but keeps only the
pounds,
> giving his clerk the ****llings. =A0The guinea can also be divided
exactly=
 into
> many different amounts - halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, sevenths,
nint=
hs,
> fourteenths, twenty-firsts, twenty-eighths, thirty-sixths,
forty-seconds,
> sixty-thirds, eighty-fourths, and one-hundred-and-twenty-sixths. One
usef=
ul
> factor is that a third of a guinea was exactly seven ****llings.

This actually explains something I've always been hazy about. In "A
Hard Day's Night" when the bill gets presented for the evening at the
casino, "Norm" burts out; "A hundred and eighty pounds!" To which the
concerige replies; "Guineas, sir!"

I didn't realize there was a real difference in the coins, I thought
the guy was just being snobbish.