I just found a Monkey...
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GTIR said:
That's a lot of doggie munchies!Mr Darcy said:
How much is a monkey? Is it more or less than a pony?
Archer = £2000Bag of Sand = £1000
Grand = £1000
Monkey = £500
Ton = £100
Carpet = £30
Pony = £25
Macaroni = £25
Apple Core = £20
Score = £20
Speckled Hen = £10
Uncle Ben = £10
Nigel Ben = £10
Paul McKenna = £10
Ayrton (Senna) = Tenner = £10
Lady (Godiva) = Fiver = £5
Taxi Driver = Fiver = £5
Nicker or Quid = £1
Ten Bob Bit = 50p piece
Oxford = 5 shillings
Lord of the Manor = Tanner (sixpence)
Tanner = sixpence
Edited by hornetrider on Wednesday 3rd March 12:33
hornetrider said:
Mr Darcy said:
How much is a monkey? Is it more or less than a pony?
Archer = £2000Bag of Sand = £1000
Grand = £1000
Monkey = £500
Ton = £100
Carpet = £30
Pony = £25
Macaroni = £25
Apple Core = £20
Score = £20
Speckled Hen = £10
Uncle Ben = £10
Nigel Ben = £10
Paul McKenna = £10
Ayrton (Senna) = Tenner = £10
Lady (Godiva) = Fiver = £5
Taxi Driver = Fiver = £5
Nicker or Quid = £1
Ten Bob Bit = 50p piece
Oxford = 5 shillings
Lord of the Manor = Tanner (sixpence)
Tanner = sixpence
Edited by hornetrider on Wednesday 3rd March 12:33
There's this new tool I've found, it's like this searchy thingy that queries an internet. You should try it sometime, its marvellous.
carpet - three pounds (£3) or three hundred pounds (£300), or sometimes thirty pounds (£30). This has confusing and convoluted origins, from as early as the late 1800s: It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence, based on the following: that 'carpet bag' was cockney rhyming slang for a 'drag', which was generally used to describe a three month sentence; also that in the prison workshops it supposedly took ninety days to produce a certain regulation-size piece of carpet; and there is also a belief that prisoners used to be awarded the luxury of a piece of carpet for their cell after three year's incarceration. The term has since the early 1900s been used by bookmakers and horse-racing, where carpet refers to odds of three-to-one, and in car dealing, where it refers to an amount of £300.
carpet - three pounds (£3) or three hundred pounds (£300), or sometimes thirty pounds (£30). This has confusing and convoluted origins, from as early as the late 1800s: It seems originally to have been a slang term for a three month prison sentence, based on the following: that 'carpet bag' was cockney rhyming slang for a 'drag', which was generally used to describe a three month sentence; also that in the prison workshops it supposedly took ninety days to produce a certain regulation-size piece of carpet; and there is also a belief that prisoners used to be awarded the luxury of a piece of carpet for their cell after three year's incarceration. The term has since the early 1900s been used by bookmakers and horse-racing, where carpet refers to odds of three-to-one, and in car dealing, where it refers to an amount of £300.
Matt Evans said:
I'm disappointed. I thought you'd found an actual monkey. As in:

Now that would be fun
Edited to add - how much does the above cost? Would £500.00 cover it?
I doubt you'd get the above but would a smaller capuchin monkey be an acceptable alternative?
Now that would be fun

Edited to add - how much does the above cost? Would £500.00 cover it?
Edited by Matt Evans on Wednesday 3rd March 12:46
Mr Darcy said:
hornetrider said:
Mr Darcy said:
How much is a monkey? Is it more or less than a pony?
Archer = £2000Bag of Sand = £1000
Grand = £1000
Monkey = £500
Ton = £100
Carpet = £30
Pony = £25
Macaroni = £25
Apple Core = £20
Score = £20
Speckled Hen = £10
Uncle Ben = £10
Nigel Ben = £10
Paul McKenna = £10
Ayrton (Senna) = Tenner = £10
Lady (Godiva) = Fiver = £5
Taxi Driver = Fiver = £5
Nicker or Quid = £1
Ten Bob Bit = 50p piece
Oxford = 5 shillings
Lord of the Manor = Tanner (sixpence)
Tanner = sixpence
Edited by hornetrider on Wednesday 3rd March 12:33
Can someone explain these. Monkey. How is that £500?
Matt Evans said:
I'm disappointed. I thought you'd found an actual monkey. As in:

Now that would be fun
Edited to add - how much does the above cost? Would £500.00 cover it?
No chance - 3k+ for a chimp. You need a dangerous animals licence to keep one in the UK too. 
Now that would be fun

Edited to add - how much does the above cost? Would £500.00 cover it?
Edited by Matt Evans on Wednesday 3rd March 12:46
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