“In 1522, Sir Thomas More wrote (in ‘Four Last Things’): ‘It often happeth, that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that.other folk sodainly say to them a peny for your thought.’”
“Penny for your thoughts” is a much older expression. The “two cents” came much later; and Inflation was responsible for the difference … not the importance.
In any event, the penny was the value placed on another’s thought; and the 2 cents was a self evaluation … expected difference.
I wonder if a character like Caulfield hasn’t read stuff already before it will be assigned in class. It’s what I did when I anticipated that some piece of literature will maybe come up.
In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say. But then, I’ve always been penny wise and pound foolish. (And isn’t it fun that we still have a sense of what these relative quantities mean, lo, this quarter millennium after we gave up pounds in favor of dollars? Cubits for two bits, anyone?)
“I speak my mind more than most of the time/Two cents ain’t such a bad fee/Let me be/Why can’t you see?/If everybody gets an opinion then we’ll never agree” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN2GSStnWF8
Reminds me of the joke about a guy taking his lady to her first football game and her wondering why the coaches and fans were obsessed with a small amount of money as “they’re always yelling, ‘Get the quarterback’.”
If you do a lot of research, you will be putting out a lot of pennies to gather other people’s thoughts. Then you combine them into one single conclusion, and it is only worth 2 cents? Better hope someone else is funding this research.
eromlig over 2 years ago
“Show them no quarter!”
Chrisdiaz801 over 2 years ago
Quit while you’re still out of detention, Caufield!
Wilde Bill over 2 years ago
I think you can safely assume that he did not.
Bilan over 2 years ago
Nothing said about a wooden nickel?
Doug K over 2 years ago
So … does this make any cents?
nosirrom over 2 years ago
“In 1522, Sir Thomas More wrote (in ‘Four Last Things’): ‘It often happeth, that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that.other folk sodainly say to them a peny for your thought.’”
The Old Wolf over 2 years ago
Caulfield is a panic. Just my two penn’orth.
jessegooddoggy over 2 years ago
Those two! Love their banter!
ACK! Premium Member over 2 years ago
Day late and a dollar short.
Old Girl over 2 years ago
“Penny for your thoughts” is a much older expression. The “two cents” came much later; and Inflation was responsible for the difference … not the importance.
In any event, the penny was the value placed on another’s thought; and the 2 cents was a self evaluation … expected difference.
Jeffin Premium Member over 2 years ago
As long as he gets a nickle back. On replay.
Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago
“Dropping a dime” must sound really weird to young people, since there are no pay phones, and they stopped being a dime about 50 years ago.
Serial Pedant over 2 years ago
Used to be a nickel, then a dime, then a quarter, then…poof! "Where did all the pay phones go, long time passin’….?
unfair.de over 2 years ago
I wonder if a character like Caulfield hasn’t read stuff already before it will be assigned in class. It’s what I did when I anticipated that some piece of literature will maybe come up.
It’s a great way to be bored to death in class.
comicboyz over 2 years ago
The unsolicited opinion is actually only worth half a penny (0.5 cent)
royq27 over 2 years ago
Not certain if I give two-bits regarding this discussion…
cymusiker over 2 years ago
That should be “two-bit diversion…”
The Wolf In Your Midst over 2 years ago
This young buck has met his match.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 2 years ago
In for a penny, in for a pound, I always say. But then, I’ve always been penny wise and pound foolish. (And isn’t it fun that we still have a sense of what these relative quantities mean, lo, this quarter millennium after we gave up pounds in favor of dollars? Cubits for two bits, anyone?)
BC in NC Premium Member over 2 years ago
~ So here’s penny for your thoughts / a nickel for a kiss /A dime if you tell me that you love me ~ Tavares
Lambutts over 2 years ago
What you’re saying is that time is more valuable than thoughts, as in: “A penny for your thoughts” as opposed to “a dime for your time.”
moondog42 Premium Member over 2 years ago
“I speak my mind more than most of the time/Two cents ain’t such a bad fee/Let me be/Why can’t you see?/If everybody gets an opinion then we’ll never agree” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN2GSStnWF8
Lambutts over 2 years ago
Reminds me of the joke about a guy taking his lady to her first football game and her wondering why the coaches and fans were obsessed with a small amount of money as “they’re always yelling, ‘Get the quarterback’.”
The Brooklyn Accent over 2 years ago
Dollars to doughnuts she’s right.
(I stopped at a Dunkin’ the other month and noticed that a single doughnut now costs about a dollar. There goes another colorful expression…)
ChukLitl Premium Member over 2 years ago
If I want your opinion I’ll pay. Speak unbidden & you pay double. Sounds oppressive.
Ray Helvy Premium Member over 2 years ago
Oooh! Upping the ante! Nicely done!
sid w over 2 years ago
If you do a lot of research, you will be putting out a lot of pennies to gather other people’s thoughts. Then you combine them into one single conclusion, and it is only worth 2 cents? Better hope someone else is funding this research.
Stephen Gilberg over 2 years ago
What a two-bit approach.
whelan_jj over 2 years ago
Caulfield has it wrong. The two cents is for an opinion you neither asked for nor wanted.
DC2DV1 over 2 years ago
dont take any…
comics over 2 years ago
A penny for your thoughts, but put your 2 cents in? Somebody’s making a penny. (Thanks Steve).
MFRXIM Premium Member over 2 years ago
A man called a woman a "two-bit whore”:she hit him with a sack of quarters.
christelisbetty over 2 years ago
Caulfield, ever the ecCENTric.
PaintTheDust over 2 years ago
A Groat’s Worth of Wit, to be sure.But if I had a nickel for every time…Well, Mrs. Olsen is not one to grant quarter.
chireef over 2 years ago
if i had a nickel for every time i heard that
sufamelico over 2 years ago
“Whowuddnknown?”