Judging Obama | 89 comments (89 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

A tosheroon, "as any fule know, chiz chiz" is the gold piece that sometimes turns up in the sewer.

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by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 11:25:44 AM EST
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Sometimes!?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 11:34:29 AM EST
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Re: It was a Tosheroon (none / 0)

It's also slang for half a crown.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 11:47:37 AM EST
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Re: It was a Tosheroon (none / 0)

Tosher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is another similar sounding term from the same period : tosheroon which has been applied to a tosher in error but it in fact it originally denotes a piece of pre-decimal British currency: the half-crown. Whether the two words are related is not known.

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 11:54:09 AM EST
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Wonder if there was a dialect where the fricative "p" was confused with the explosive "t."

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 12:03:58 PM EST
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Re: It was a Tosheroon (none / 0)

so that "posh" -> "tosh"

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 12:12:12 PM EST
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Re: It was a Tosheroon (none / 0)

Not that it has anything to do with Jerome's diary.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 19th, 2010 at 12:12:48 PM EST
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Judging Obama | 89 comments (89 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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