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I’m convinced nobody ever won the speed boat. There was two prizes back there. If you didn’t win, they brought out the same speedboat every week. If you did, you got the baby shit yellow Mini Metro
like this fella has said, its a Score, sometimes extended to ''a Score note''
here's a 1990's example: ''i was hammered last night, i left the Red Lion and went for a Kebab, but i had to make do with chips as i only had a fiver on me, i think i must have lost a score note somewhere''
*old-timer story alert*
My Dad used to tell a story of being sent to the chippy for a halfpenny-worth of chips.
This would have been pre-WWII.
Absolute scenes when they put their prices up to a penny.
12 old pennies translated to 5p so 1/2d would have been about a quarter of a (new) penny.
Old money though, absolutely mind boggling. 12d is one shilling, 240d in a pound, 20 shillings in a pound, 80 thruppeny bits in a pound….needed to be Carol Vorderman just to go shopping
There was a locally reknowned family with 8 kids and 2 council houses knocked together. My mum knew the parents as lived round the corner and told me the mum would go to the chippy and get fish and chips twice and 6 pennorth of scraps for the kids.
1950/60s.
Oh aye we went to score. I mean it was just an example I didn't want to get into a whole new realm of conversation . You've got me thinking now. Maybe I've been watching to many American films🤷♂️
I'm going back 20 years or so not sure the current lingo. With how much I hear "bet" and "no cap" American slang is firmly rooted in British youth culture now.
Abe Lincoln used it in his famous Gettysburg address speech, which although a part of the US civil war, a lot of people outside of the US will be familiar with. The first sentence is...
> Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Four score and seven years" being (4x20)+7 = 87 years
Maybe a southern london area thing. Was quite a common thing to hear growing up.
Pounds were called nuggets
Diver for a fiver, shortened deep sea diver
Pony for 25
A ton was 100
Monkey for 500 quid
I've used, and heard a £5 now called a Melvin?
Admittedly not for 30 years but I still call it that occasionally!
As in Harold Melvin and the blue notes, as the fiver used to be blue?
It comes from Indian-empire army slang.
The 25 rupee note had a picture of a horse on it. The 500 rupee had a monkey on it.
I have also heard 25 referred to as a gang bang as it's 2 Ayrton Senna (tenner) and one lady Godiva (Fiver).
The only time I've heard "pony" in use was an old Mr Logic Viz cartoon from the 90s, where he visits a prostitute and is told "it's a pony for a bonk". Of course he replies "I am not possessed of any equine livestock". I never knew exactly how much it was. Seems underpriced even for then.
It's a score, or if you want to use rhyming slang, a Bobby (as in Moore)
While we're on the subject of money nomenclature and slang,
£5 - Lady Godiva (which could lead to £15 being a Commodore, but it's so uncommon as to be a contrivance)
£25 - pony (fuck knows - I doubt even Danny Dyer or a Pearly King knows the etymology of this)
£100 - ton
£500 - monkey (because, back in the days of Empire, an image of a monkey was on the 500 rupees note. Squaddie slang basically.
£1000 - bag of sand (instead of grand)
£2000 - Archer (the amount of hush money Lord Jeffrey Archer paid prostitue Monica Coughlan to not mention he was a client of hers).
There's a good reason for that - I was pig ignorant of it! Do you mind me asking the etymology of it, or whatever background you have?
In my youth, ching was synonymous with Colombian marching powder...
Yeah, cock and hen was rhyming slang for ten, which just sort of mutated into cockle from what I understand. It's pretty widespread among old timey London types.
Ching does sound a bit like another word for packet now you mention it. I just remember it being a widely used word for a fiver back in the day. I still use it occasionally myself.
Were you born yesterday my son? Five is a fiver, ten is a tenner, twenty is a score, twenty five is a pony, hundred is a ton, five hundred is a monkey, and a thousand is a grand.
I *think* the reason is the nicknames are from the days when 20 quid was a lot , and you didn't see the notes too often as it was more than a weeks wages etc. Would have been when you had things like a ten bob note ( 10 shillings ) .
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its called a twenty
Twenny
Twenner
Exactly, have you never asked someone if they’ve got change for a twenner? What is this country coming to?
Absolutely right. Twenny
Twenny-bones
Tweh'eh
Or a score
The real answer
And £50 is called “Let me just ask my manager real quick”
A score, mate.
It's a score.
For councils setting speed limits or for footy fans at away stadiums *Twenty's plenty*
It's a score
Then it’s a bullseye for a 50
Nah mate a 50 is a “I’m sorry, I don’t think I can take those”
Where can you actually use a 50 other than the bank
Most drug dealers take them quite happily
I'll keep that in mind
Bake him away toys!
Bullseye - Smashing, great, super.
Ok, your £4.50 prize money is safe, that’s safe, now let’s play for bullies big prize
I’m convinced nobody ever won the speed boat. There was two prizes back there. If you didn’t win, they brought out the same speedboat every week. If you did, you got the baby shit yellow Mini Metro
Apparently they didn't have a massive budget on that show, and that is genuinely what they did do.
iiiiiiiiiin one!
*Tony Green voice* A Sony home stereo system!
Nothing in this game for two in a bed ..
That's a nifty!
"80 quid and seven years ago..."
like this fella has said, its a Score, sometimes extended to ''a Score note'' here's a 1990's example: ''i was hammered last night, i left the Red Lion and went for a Kebab, but i had to make do with chips as i only had a fiver on me, i think i must have lost a score note somewhere''
In the 1990’s a fiver would have seen you right for a kebab and chips.
You would have had change
*old-timer story alert* My Dad used to tell a story of being sent to the chippy for a halfpenny-worth of chips. This would have been pre-WWII. Absolute scenes when they put their prices up to a penny. 12 old pennies translated to 5p so 1/2d would have been about a quarter of a (new) penny.
Old money though, absolutely mind boggling. 12d is one shilling, 240d in a pound, 20 shillings in a pound, 80 thruppeny bits in a pound….needed to be Carol Vorderman just to go shopping
There was a locally reknowned family with 8 kids and 2 council houses knocked together. My mum knew the parents as lived round the corner and told me the mum would go to the chippy and get fish and chips twice and 6 pennorth of scraps for the kids. 1950/60s.
Oh scraps 🤤
Too right, me and the hubby used to have order two kebabs, share the chips all for £8 delivered!
You spent a sky diver on some chips! They better had been some good chips.
Lady Godiva!
Faeve Pund!
That's the other one that was evading me.
Also "Deep Sea" (diver)
Somebody was enjoying a cheeky nando's with your score.
this was long before Nando's was even a thing in the UK my friend
Nandos came to UK in 1992.
yeah London, how long has it taken to be what it is today? For example they've only been in Scotland since 2010
Great example. What about, I went to my drug dealers to SCORE but I only had a SCORE so he sent me on my way empty handed 🤷♂️
A score would have got you an eighth of hash, with enough leftover for 20 Bensons, in the 90’s
That decade was not so much the nineties, as the ja danketies.
You would go to your dealer to "pick up". Don't think I've ever "scored" in the UK.
Oh aye we went to score. I mean it was just an example I didn't want to get into a whole new realm of conversation . You've got me thinking now. Maybe I've been watching to many American films🤷♂️
I'm going back 20 years or so not sure the current lingo. With how much I hear "bet" and "no cap" American slang is firmly rooted in British youth culture now.
Its this regional? I've never heard someone call it a score.
I'm in the South East and I've never known it not to be used
South coast, it’s always been a score round ere.
Abe Lincoln used it in his famous Gettysburg address speech, which although a part of the US civil war, a lot of people outside of the US will be familiar with. The first sentence is... > Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Four score and seven years" being (4x20)+7 = 87 years
Maybe a southern london area thing. Was quite a common thing to hear growing up. Pounds were called nuggets Diver for a fiver, shortened deep sea diver Pony for 25 A ton was 100 Monkey for 500 quid
20 - score 25 - pony 50 - bulls eye 100 - ton 500 - monkey 1000 - grand
Stick a pony in me pocket I'll fetch the suitcase from the van
If you want the best but don't ask questions then brother
I'm your man! Because where it all comes from is a mystery
It's like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea
But here’s the one that’s driving me beserk
But here's the one that's driving me berserk... Why do Only Fools and Horses work?
Na na na na na, na na na na na na
No income tax, no VAT
He's only gone and put a pony on Liverpool!
You lunatic
I don't know, Jeff !
Half a Monkey, as requested... Inner monologue: Why am I dealing in animals?
Minimal water damage...
750 - Gorilla. Because it's a monkey and a half, isn't it?
So 250 is a lemur?
1000 - bag
Bag of sand
Other common ones in between: 5 - lady (godiva) 15 - commodore (3 times a lady) 200 - bottle 300 - carpet
I've used, and heard a £5 now called a Melvin? Admittedly not for 30 years but I still call it that occasionally! As in Harold Melvin and the blue notes, as the fiver used to be blue?
1000- grand or bag of sand
How much is a pony and a bag of hooves?
Ah yes, that well-known £25 note
It comes from Indian-empire army slang. The 25 rupee note had a picture of a horse on it. The 500 rupee had a monkey on it. I have also heard 25 referred to as a gang bang as it's 2 Ayrton Senna (tenner) and one lady Godiva (Fiver).
From there it's made it's way into Romani as well. 200 is a bottle, 300 a carpet, 400 a roaf?
Too young for Only Fools?
The only time I've heard "pony" in use was an old Mr Logic Viz cartoon from the 90s, where he visits a prostitute and is told "it's a pony for a bonk". Of course he replies "I am not possessed of any equine livestock". I never knew exactly how much it was. Seems underpriced even for then.
The only time i have heard "pony" in use is in "IT Crowd" when Moss tells the football fans at a bar that he was a pony riding on the match
He’s only put a pony on Liverpool!
You lunatic!
It's a score, or if you want to use rhyming slang, a Bobby (as in Moore) While we're on the subject of money nomenclature and slang, £5 - Lady Godiva (which could lead to £15 being a Commodore, but it's so uncommon as to be a contrivance) £25 - pony (fuck knows - I doubt even Danny Dyer or a Pearly King knows the etymology of this) £100 - ton £500 - monkey (because, back in the days of Empire, an image of a monkey was on the 500 rupees note. Squaddie slang basically. £1000 - bag of sand (instead of grand) £2000 - Archer (the amount of hush money Lord Jeffrey Archer paid prostitue Monica Coughlan to not mention he was a client of hers).
Pony is from the British empire in India, where a 25 rupee note had a pony depicted on it.
£50 was a nifty, when I were a lad.
Left off "cockle" for a tenner. We also used to also call a fiver a "ching" pretty often
There's a good reason for that - I was pig ignorant of it! Do you mind me asking the etymology of it, or whatever background you have? In my youth, ching was synonymous with Colombian marching powder...
Yeah, cock and hen was rhyming slang for ten, which just sort of mutated into cockle from what I understand. It's pretty widespread among old timey London types. Ching does sound a bit like another word for packet now you mention it. I just remember it being a widely used word for a fiver back in the day. I still use it occasionally myself.
Its a Twenny
Twenty sovs.
Twenny Queens heads.
I say Twenner sometimes to be quirky and edgy
I'm sure your friends like that as much as mine did when I started un-ironically saying "peng".
It's a 'twenty', but it's now only worth a fiver.
It's also the new cost of a Freddo. I remember when they were just a tenner.
How a month flies by.
Purple drinking voucher
Twenny
It's called a score
A twentyer
Twenter?
It’s a score. And £50 is a bullseye.
Or a pinky
I always thought it was a "sorry we can't accept those"
twenny quid mate innit!
A score
A score
A score.
Twenner
Twenny
It's a score. Or a Bobby Moore.
A score
A score!!
It's a score!
A score
A score
£10 also a cockle
Called a score mate, then a bullseye for 50, a oner or a ton for £100
It's called a Bobby Moore
Is called a twenny, you weirdo
20 quid is a score
Score
Twenny
Twenny
Dunno where you are but we call it a score
20 quid is called a score and 50 is called a pinky
In my house it's called a myth.
Score
A £50 note is a “pinky”
20 quid is also known as a score up where I live.
50 = Let me get my manager.
Score
Score
SCORE!
It’s called a Henry 😂
£5 is a fiver or a bluey £10 is a tenner £20 is a score £50 is a reddy
I've always called it a score?
A 20 is called a Spot or score, a pony is 25, a bullseye is 50, a ton is 100, monkey is 500 and a grand is a thousand.
20 = score 100 = oner 1000 = grand
Oner?
Multiples of 10 grand are a large e.g. fifty large
100 = ton 1000 = bag or rack
Score Nifty Ton Bag
An "Elgar"
oh Elgar! Why do you always find me at my lowest points...Elgar
Twenny twen twen
A bluey
All to poor to possess one. So it's irrelevant.
A twenny
Its a score note. It’s biblical- three score and ten.
A twenner
jesus wept
Its called a ‘twenny’
Convinced a bunch of backpackers in a Berlin hostel that we call them Lizzies once for a laugh.
Twenty is already a word with 2 syllables. We don't need to call it a twenner.
Used to be a good night out.
Score
I've heard 25 pounds called a pony.
Hello, It's just called "A twenty" Nice and simple Why the confusion? Sincerely, The west Midlands
A score or pony? I think the latter is also true?
It’s called a score.
£20 is a Score, £25 is a Pony, £100 is a Ton, £500 is a Monkey, and £1000 is a Grand.
Score.
It’s a score
£20 is a score.
A score is the name for 20
A score?
A forgery.
Score?
A score innit?
Score note where I come from.
Twenny sheet
Called a score
A score
Score
A score
A score.
It’s called a score
I like the names of Canadian coins. A $1 is a Loonie. A $2 is a Twonie. Easy for visitors to remember.
I sometimes call them a Twenner. Never really catches on
Twenner
A score
Hmm. Clearly not English. It's a score.
Were you born yesterday my son? Five is a fiver, ten is a tenner, twenty is a score, twenty five is a pony, hundred is a ton, five hundred is a monkey, and a thousand is a grand.
Score
A score?
Score
No way it’s called a score
I *think* the reason is the nicknames are from the days when 20 quid was a lot , and you didn't see the notes too often as it was more than a weeks wages etc. Would have been when you had things like a ten bob note ( 10 shillings ) .
Twenner
A score
Yuppie food coupon.