Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
That must have been a decimal half-pence, because the pre-decimal ha'penny was the size of a dinner-plate and the reason why the smooth-bore Brown Bess musket persisted well into the era of the rifle. The decimal half-pences were very thin and I remember putting 20 pumps into my Crosman 766 in an effort to fire a steel BB through one of them. It nearly did, then I was struck with horror that I could be tried for treason and deported to Botany Bay for knackering the Queen's Currency and Coppery Fizzog. Because of rampant inflation at the time the Bank of England Police Service looked on currency destruction with one of its blind eyes so I never got to hear a kukkuburra shitting in a eucalyptus bush.
Last edited by Hsing-ee; 18-03-2018 at 08:58 PM.
Coke with bubbles in already was for the posh kids on the new private estate, like ready-salted crisps. Three ha'pennies would get a brown paper bag of crisps and someone would have to go down to the salt-lick near the garages where they kept the cow for a few scrapings to season them. If there were calfs around then sometimes we'd have to go without or just use sweat.
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in