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Shave and a Haircut
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#12A made a little “secret knock” authentication demo. Shave and a haircut is obviously the secret knock used in the demo https://miniatureape.github.io/prohibition/ (Nb: I’m sure this doesn’t work great on some devices)
Fun! Over a decade ago, my boss and I added a secret knock using Shave and a Haircut just like this to our wayfinder product, a large touchscreen app used on trade show floors.
It’s how we got into our admin to maintenance them at the shows and was useful if something was wrong with the onscreen keyboard (or we didn’t have our own keyboard to attach).
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#13Wow, so "two bits" is what Roger says in response to Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I can hear it now, but I never actually knew what was said.
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#14> "Two bits" is a term in the United States and Canada for 25 cents I don't know about Canada, but the "is" should be a "was" unless there are contexts I don't know about. It did lead me down a little deeper the Wikipedia rabbit hole, and apparently: > The New York Stock Exchange continued to list stock prices in $1⁄8 until June 24, 1997, at which time it started listing in $1⁄16. It did not fully implement decimal l…
In other tunes it was bay rum instead of two bits.
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#15If you do the ending pattern 8 times it becomes “shave and a haircut, two bytes”
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#16There's a tune that's very similar to "Shave and a Haircut", but in a minor key, replacing the two eights with a triplet and a chromatic part. (Notes are: G D Db D Eb D; F# G) Does anyone know what its called?
If you scroll down to the section "Uses in other countries", there's the same tune that seems to be in minor.
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#17Wow, this is very interesting. In Mexico, it's used to insult another person. I always thought it was a Mexico-thing.
For those wondering, this is explained in the section "Uses in other countries".
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#18Wow, this is very interesting. In Mexico, it's used to insult another person. I always thought it was a Mexico-thing.
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#19> "Two bits" is a term in the United States and Canada for 25 cents I don't know about Canada, but the "is" should be a "was" unless there are contexts I don't know about. It did lead me down a little deeper the Wikipedia rabbit hole, and apparently: > The New York Stock Exchange continued to list stock prices in $1⁄8 until June 24, 1997, at which time it started listing in $1⁄16. It did not fully implement decimal l…
2 bit is still used in Canada as an indicator of something less than good, otherwise unused.
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#20regarding “bits” as a monetary term: it took me a solid decade to get the joke in “Making Money” regarding why Reacher Gilt taught his parrot to say “12.5%”
https://wiki.lspace.org/Main_Page Is a great resource for this; so many of the books have deep or obscure British jokes that even Native English (simplified) ((American)) don’t get.