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WHEN Decimal Day dawned last week, the British kept the pound (or quid) and such variations as the 5-, 10-and 20-pound notes. But in dividing the pound into 100 new pence instead of 240 old pennies, they lost all their old coins. The ha'penny, thrup'ny and sixpenny pieces and the shilling in all its variations are being withdrawn from circulation. They lost something more: many colorful examples of cockney slang, which substitutes rhymed phrases for action words-such as "gawd forbids" for bothersome kids and "trouble and strife" for a nagging wife. No rhymes...
...leading candidate appears to be Fred Ferdindoupolus, three-time Crete Ping-Pong champion. "I plan to throw in my 100-page thesis on "Classic Lines in Ancient Greek Ping-Pong Courts" and see how it bounces, ha ha ha," Ferdindoupolus said...
When finally given time to speak by Mayor Vellucci, Steven Van Kuchen announced, "This is not, as some people seem to think, the late night ego tripping ha-ha show. The problem here is Cronin. Ever since this council passed the rent control law in September he has done everything in his power to stop...
...several telephones in Martha Mitchell's Watergate apartment bear no numbers-a security-conscious precaution against the curiosity, and possible calls, of casual visitors. The one exception is the most famous phone in Washington: the one in Martha's bathroom. How about that? Ha, chuckled the Lady of the Long Lines, "that's a fake. The real number is one of those written on the wall...
...year after Israeli troops occupied all of Jerusalem, workmen began bulldozing a rocky hillside more than a mile north of the Old City's Damascus Gate in preparation for putting up a modern apartment-house complex. They discovered almost immediately that the site, called Giv'at ha-Mivtar (meaning Hill of the Divide), was honeycombed with burial caves dating back to biblical times...