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What (who) is Funny Money - definition
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funny money
Notional units of computing time and/or storage handed to
students at the beginning of a computer course; also called
"play money" or "purple money" (in implicit opposition to real
or "green" money).
In New Zealand and Germany the odd usage "paper money" has
been recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym
"transfer ruble" commemorates the funny money used for trade
between COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc still
existed.
When your funny money ran out, your account froze and you
needed to go to a professor to get more. Fortunately, the
plunging cost of time-sharing cycles has made this less
common. The amounts allocated were almost invariably too
small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with
minimum work. In extreme cases, the practice led to
small-scale black markets in bootlegged computer accounts. By
extension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind used
as a resource-allocation hack within a system.
[Jargon File ]
funny money
¦ noun informal currency that is forged or otherwise worthless.
Funny Money
Funny Money is a farce written by Ray Cooney. It premièred at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley, London, England, in 1994, followed by a successful two-year run in the West End.
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Funny Money
Funny Money is a farce written by Ray Cooney. It premièred at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley, London, England, in 1994, followed by a successful two-year run in the West End. Cooney directed his own play and also played the part of Henry Perkins. In 2006 the play was adapted into a movie starring Chevy Chase. The play has also been presented internationally in Singapore, in May 2005, by the British Theatre Playhouse.
Examples of use of Funny Money
1. Funny money Stefan Stuckmann graduated last year and is now part of a team that writes for a programme called Friday Night News.
2. Funny money Five people have been arrested in Thessaloniki and Veria, northern Greece, on suspicion of circulating some 6,000 euros in forged notes, police said yesterday.
3. Consumers are already mortgaged up to the eyeballs and – deep down – know that there has been far too much funny money sloshing around.
4. Funny money: Lenny Henry and Davina McCall promoting Comic Relief Most popular stories News » Entire site » Prince William falls victim to Facebook prank Mile high couple admit jet fracas The Jackson three: Do they share a plastic surgeon?
5. In the hurly–burly of the build–up to an election campaign, Charles Kennedy and his advisers could hold that they were acting in haste, as other parties have no doubt done without being exposed as recipients of funny money.