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From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: 'Dreaming' interpretation sought
Message-ID: <1002@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 01:59:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 01:59:50 1985
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> > From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
> > Can anyone suggest what the last line of 'There Goes a Tenner' refers to:
> >     There's a ten shilling note,
> >     Remember them? That's when we used to vote for him.
> 
>                             ....  I assume that in the line "Pockets
> floating in the breeze", "pockets" is a British slang term for paper
> money.  I also assume that ten shilling notes are not made any more.

I've never heard the term "pockets" used for paper money;"quid", "fiver" and
"tenner" are the usual ones (for #1 #5 #10).

Doug you're correct in your assumption, "the ten-bob" note is no-longer. It
disapeared around 1971 (when our curency went decimal), and was replaced by a
7-sided coin!

> But I have no idea, when ten shilling notes were made, or who Kate's
> character would have voted for at the time when ten shilling notes were
> made.  If any one else has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!
> 			 Doug Alan
> 			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)

I was wondering about this when I saw the original posting. I thought it may
have something to do with whatever was printed on the "ten-bob" note, but 
I can't remember what was on them, or for that matter, who the leading
political figures were at the time.

Who are the present ones anyway ? :-)
-- 
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                              But now I've come back again - Spandau Ballet ]
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