It's funny when people complain but offer nothing positive. I've already brought this up. I guess for some, complaining is easier than being productive.
@ Corvus: I recall seeing an old movie (can't recall the title), that was set in the early 1900's. $2. *was* the standard amount one expected to pay a hooker for sex. The scene I recall is a bunch of johns standing in line waiting for a certain hooker. The madam comes up to one of them and he says, "I got my two dollars."
For decades the $2 bill was shunned in western Canada for exactly the reason you stated. In the early development years of the west brothels were rampant and $2 was the standard fee. A respectable woman would not touch a $2 bill simply because it might have been through the hands of a prostitute. That stigma remained attached to the deuce until the 1970s. The $2 bill enjoyed a brief time of general acceptance in western Canada until the mid 1990s when all deuces were withdrawn and replaced with the $2 coin, commonly called the toonie.
For all this time $2 bills circulated readily in eastern Canada. I guess eastern hookers must have had higher fees??
Art, Great story! U.S. currency has had a two-dollar bill for a long time, but they are rare in common transactions. According to Wikipedia, they were in circulation 1862-1966 and again since 1976.
In my lifetime I've hoarded a few of them. I recall they were mainly used at race tracks, because a two-dollar bet was common. Other TUSCL club-goers have stated they're used in strip clubs. That's not likely on the west coast.
When you get one dollar bills in change at a store, do you ever wonder how many of these bills have resided, temporarily, in a strippers G string or between her breasts.
Got to quit thinking like this--- don't want to start getting erections when I get one dollar bills in my change at Walmart!
@ Electronman: Not exactly, but I do think about strip clubs when I get singles in change. I decide whether or not to set them aside for my next strip club outing. Now you've got me thinking even further--which of my favorite dancers' cleavage would I like them placed among!
Moto, as always, you rock. Please, please, please, look like Lemmy. That's who I imagine you to look like. Especially since watching that one video posted here.
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"two" should be "too".
For decades the $2 bill was shunned in western Canada for exactly the reason you stated. In the early development years of the west brothels were rampant and $2 was the standard fee. A respectable woman would not touch a $2 bill simply because it might have been through the hands of a prostitute. That stigma remained attached to the deuce until the 1970s. The $2 bill enjoyed a brief time of general acceptance in western Canada until the mid 1990s when all deuces were withdrawn and replaced with the $2 coin, commonly called the toonie.
For all this time $2 bills circulated readily in eastern Canada. I guess eastern hookers must have had higher fees??
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._two-do… (click on the bill photos to enlarge them)
In my lifetime I've hoarded a few of them. I recall they were mainly used at race tracks, because a two-dollar bet was common. Other TUSCL club-goers have stated they're used in strip clubs. That's not likely on the west coast.
Got to quit thinking like this--- don't want to start getting erections when I get one dollar bills in my change at Walmart!
"two" should be "too"
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This is a very common homophone.
Two
To
Too
Tew
Tu (if you include Spanish and Latin)
Used in sentences:
The stripper had two bodacious ta-ta's
I went to the strip club and lost my money and my virginity.
Daisy could tew by cock like a piece of leather.
I fucked Sunshine in the pussy and the ass too.
Yo quiero tu amor. (i said in Espanol to the fine Chica)