http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Twopenny_Upright&feed=atom&action=historyTwopenny Upright - Revision history2024-03-28T09:11:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Twopenny_Upright&diff=28349&oldid=prevOld Dickens: improve the flow a bit (2 cents worth?)2017-09-28T02:47:16Z<p>improve the flow a bit (2 cents worth?)</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apparently the most basic level of service offered by the [[Seamstresses' Guild]]. It is possible inflation has raised the price somewhat, but the popular title still remains.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Apparently <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this is </ins>the most basic level of service offered by the [[Seamstresses' Guild]]. It is possible inflation has raised the price somewhat, but the popular title still remains.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Also </del>a kind of jam donut or jam-based dessert served with hot custard, like your mam might have made in your youth. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While it refers to </ins>a kind of jam donut or jam-based dessert served with hot custard, like your mam might have made in your youth<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, it is also the slang name for an intimate service as might be provided by a [[seamstress]], although this is not deeply explored. Or is it? Given the rather suggestive nature of the phrase it may well be slang for a donut and the proper name for whatever it is twopence will buy you up an alley</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also the slang name </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some kind of intimate </del>service as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">might </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">provided by </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[seamstress]]</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">although this </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not deeply explored. Or is it </del>? <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Given </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rather suggestive nature of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">phrase it may well </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">slang for </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">donut and the proper name for whatever it is twopence will buy you up an alley</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Given what </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">known about relative prices in Ankh-Morpork, though, two pence does seem a little cheap </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even a basic Seamstress </ins>service <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- especially </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guild tax on the transaction has to </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paid (at 25%, or </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">halfpenny?) This is perhaps one of those terms lingering on from an earlier age, like "The king's shilling" for the bounty paid on joining the Watch</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even if the current cost </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a lot different</ins>? <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Down-to-earth American slang has </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expression ''spreads faster than a two-dollar whore on a Saturday night''; again, an older price prevails in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">folklore? It'd </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hard to find a Seamstress in today's USA who'd charge a dollar </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sock..</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Given what is known about relative prices </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ankh-Morpork, though, two pence does seem a little cheap for even a basic Seamstress service - especially as Guild tax on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transaction has </del>to be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paid (at 25%, or </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">halfpenny?) This is perhaps one of those terms lingering on from an earlier age, like "The king's shilling" for the bounty paid on joining the Watch, even if the current cost is </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lot different? (down </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earth American slang has </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expression ''spreads faster than a two</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dollar whore on a Saturday night''. Again, an older price prevails in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">folklore? It</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">d be hard to find a Seamstress in today's USA who'd charge a dollar a sock</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">..) </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Either way, we are introduced to the expression </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{NW}} during the events leading up to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Glorious Revolution]] perhaps </ins>to be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offered as </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bribe by </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fledgling [[Rosemary Palm]] seeking </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">escape </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">clutches of [[Cable Street Particulars]].</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Old Dickenshttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Twopenny_Upright&diff=24048&oldid=prevAgProv: Merging two articles2016-04-12T14:09:02Z<p>Merging two articles</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is also the slang name for some kind of intimate service as might be provided by a [[seamstress]], although this is not deeply explored. Or is it ? Given the rather suggestive nature of the phrase it may well be slang for a donut and the proper name for whatever it is twopence will buy you up an alley. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is also the slang name for some kind of intimate service as might be provided by a [[seamstress]], although this is not deeply explored. Or is it ? Given the rather suggestive nature of the phrase it may well be slang for a donut and the proper name for whatever it is twopence will buy you up an alley. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Given what is known about relative prices in Ankh-Morpork, though, two pence does seem a little cheap for even a basic Seamstress service - especially as Guild tax on the transaction has to be paid (at 25%, or a halfpenny?) This is perhaps one of those terms lingering on from an earlier age, like "The king's shilling" for the bounty paid on joining the Watch, even if the current cost is a lot different? </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Given what is known about relative prices in Ankh-Morpork, though, two pence does seem a little cheap for even a basic Seamstress service - especially as Guild tax on the transaction has to be paid (at 25%, or a halfpenny?) This is perhaps one of those terms lingering on from an earlier age, like "The king's shilling" for the bounty paid on joining the Watch, even if the current cost is a lot different? <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(down to earth American slang has the expression ''spreads faster than a two-dollar whore on a Saturday night''. Again, an older price prevails in the folklore? It'd be hard to find a Seamstress in today's USA who'd charge a dollar a sock...) </ins></div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A kind of jam donut, like your mam might have made in your youth. <br />
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It is also the slang name for some kind of intimate service as might be provided by a [[seamstress]], although this is not deeply explored. Or is it ? Given the rather suggestive nature of the phrase it may well be slang for a donut and the proper name for whatever it is twopence will buy you up an alley. <br />
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Given what is known about relative prices in Ankh-Morpork, though, two pence does seem a little cheap for even a basic Seamstress service - especially as Guild tax on the transaction has to be paid (at 25%, or a halfpenny?) This is perhaps one of those terms lingering on from an earlier age, like "The king's shilling" for the bounty paid on joining the Watch, even if the current cost is a lot different? <br />
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Either way, we are introduced to the expression in {{NW}} during the events leading up to the [[Glorious Revolution]] perhaps to be offered as a bribe by a fledgling [[Rosemary Palm]] seeking to escape the clutches of [[Cable Street Particulars]].<br />
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