No one's found this drill and amusement remotely interesting but I've bumped it up 'cause I've thought of another one:
BASE TEN
When pounds, shillings and pence went decimal
in 1971 they said, ‘Oh,
it will be much easier to do sums
in base ten.’ It is true, long division
of the old money could be a bugger.
But then the idiots could not foresee
that one day we’d all have mobile phones with
calculators, making long division
of old money a piece of piss. I miss
the tanner, florin, half-crown, ten-bob note.
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