I was watching "Are you being served?" (gotta love those 30 year old British comedies) and they mentioned "quid" several times, like it was some sort of currency. Being in the U.S., I have no idea what a "quid" is. Can someone help me out?

Being an Aussie I have no real idea either but I think it's a pound.



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Yes.... Uh, no.... Actually......I don't know.... Um, hang on.... What was the question again?

A quid: One pound sterling

from A dictionary of British slang

- from where it can also be deduced that Mr Humphries was/is "as queer as a nine-bob note"

(a "bob" being a slang term for a shilling)

(a "shilling" being.... oh, never mind!)



Post Edited (09-05-04 10:45)

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Ooh, ooh, can I tell the sick squid joke now?

The way I look at it is :

Pound (£) = Dollar ($) (except it's really $1.82 hooray for my trip to SF next month!)
Quid = Buck

A quid eating dough is fast and bulbous.

Sounds like one of those pseudo-mensa questions:

"Quid is to buck as pound is to.....?"

slug."



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

or beat the hell out of

Captain Beefheart, he say nothing about quids [squid? anag.] or dough, as I recall. The other bit, yes indeed.