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  • Mr Eveleigh added: All I found before was thrupenny bits and bits of metal.

    Treasure Trove! Jan 2008

  • And the book of legal dirty tricks came out in a revised edition after some of the moves they pulled to avoid paying a wooden thrupenny to the widows and the islanders.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • But didn't the rationing experience make us appreciate bananas, thrupenny bits for pocket money to spend on penny chews (plus ration coupon), & brand new clothes.

    London SE1 community website 2010

  • You are a fuck up, crawl back under your stone, no one gives a thrupenny wank to what you think.

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2009

  • So, instead of biting the bullet and knocking out realistically unsustainable channels, with the exception of ITV2+1 which was KO'ed, they carry on regardless squandering more money on feckless retards who know f'ck-all about real life but have pieces of paper stuck on the wall above their desk (or really know how to retrieve a thrupenny bit

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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