The Knight Life by Keith Knight for May 03, 2024
May 02, 2024
May 04, 2024
Transcript:
KK: I can't believe Kevin Smiths fans have out a 25 cent bounty on my head!! KK: I mean IM nationally syndicated cartoonist!! I can blake or break somebody with the stroke of my pen!! Isn't that worth more than two bits?!! KK: why am I shouting? Its falling on deaf ears anyway!! Gunther: Not really!! someone just tweeted me wondering what "two bits" means!!
Zesty 29 days ago
It means “Shave and a haircut”.
Bob Blumenfeld 29 days ago
10 – two bits.
(I’m waiting to see who doesn’t get this joke.)
Meg: All Seriousness Aside 29 days ago
A dollar coin would be split into eighths (“pieces of eight”). Two of them were “two bits”, twenty-five cents.
mokspr Premium Member 29 days ago
Two bits? Wasn’t that Curtis James Jackson’s first rapper name? ( Didn’t test well with the suburban teen demographic. )
FishingWithMissD 29 days ago
This sounds like Bugs Bunny’s villain origin story in “Rebel Rabbit.” (The one where, amongst other deviltry, he saws Florida off from the US.)
GaryCooper 28 days ago
My grandfather used the expressions “2 bits,” “4 bits,” and “6 bits,” for 25 cents, 50 cents, and 75 cents, but the only one I ever hear anymore is “2 bits” for a quarter.