In my day ...

[olbriar]

I am not one to know being as I have zero dealings with the stock market. It sounds reasonable however.

 

[The_Chief]

Why not? They still measure gasoline in tenths of a penny...

 

[rootabaga]

In my day bikes had one gear.
And "coaster" brakes.

 

[olbriar]

In my day, everybody rode their bike to school. Nowadays I see one bike rack with a half dozen bikes max in front of each elementary school.

The other day I saw a bicycle half in and half out of a dumpster curbed to be emptied. Back in my day, a bike was never thrown away. It was handed down to a kid in the neighborhood that was a couple of years younger after you received a hand-me-down bike from an older kid on the block. I don't remember who gave me my first bike but I do remember the kid I gave it to.

My father helped me fix my first bike flat. I was on my own after that.

Back in the day it was standard operating procedure to pour evaporated milk into your inner tubes to slow down flats caused by goatheads.

A patch kit consisted of a sacrificed tube for patches and standard school rubber cement.

 

[BrickHouse]

I remember when two bits was a lot of money. I now think that I'm the only one left alive that knows how much two bits is.

Yes, I do know the value of a bit. I remember buying ice cream (three fruit pops) for two bits.

 

[BrickHouse]

You aren't, although I'm a little new to the world to have spent one bit. That's kinda hard to do with the currency we've had for a century.

What we don't have anymore is the "half cent" coins. We haven't had those since the late 19th century.

 

[olbriar]

We still have tenths of a cent but not in coinage.

Copied: In the U.S., a fraction of a penny, specifically a tenth of a cent (1/10th of a cent), is known as a mill. This unit of value is used in areas like property tax, stock issuances, and electricity bills. The term "mill" is used even though there isn't a physical coin with that value.

Gas pricing include 9 mill or nine tenths of another cent.
Probably conceived by the daylight savings dude.

 

[Davdi]

A google moment: The money-related definition of two-bit makes its etymology obvious: it is derived from the noun phrase two bits. However, two bits is an interesting phrase because it actually means "the value of a quarter of a dollar." There is no such thing as a single bit, at least not anymore. The now-obsolete Spanish dollar (also known as a peso or piece of eight) was composed of eight reales, or eight bits, so a quarter of the dollar equaled two bits.

I thought eight bits were a Byte (Plus a ninth parity bit)