innickelive
A fivefold-of-the-usual "inCENTive" --- i.e., a cash-bribe for performing some difficult/disagreeable task.
Indignant old-timer: A DOLLAR to shovel the sidewalk?! Why, when I was your age, son, we only asked for PENNIES!!
Twelve-year-old: I know, sir, but when you were my age, the history-book was a ten-page pamphlet. Acknowledgements to Jeff MacNelly --- the young Skyler says this in response to his much-older Uncle Cosmo's distressed remark upon learning that Skyler got a rather low grade in history class: "Skyler, history was my BEST SUBJECT in school!" This is the modern world, and the price of everything is much higher than it used to be, so youngsters' allowances hafta be adjusted accordingly; I need an inNICKELive nowadays if I'm gonna totally bust my butt hefting huge ponderous spadefuls of rock-hard-frozen snow for half an hour.
Twelve-year-old: I know, sir, but when you were my age, the history-book was a ten-page pamphlet. Acknowledgements to Jeff MacNelly --- the young Skyler says this in response to his much-older Uncle Cosmo's distressed remark upon learning that Skyler got a rather low grade in history class: "Skyler, history was my BEST SUBJECT in school!" This is the modern world, and the price of everything is much higher than it used to be, so youngsters' allowances hafta be adjusted accordingly; I need an inNICKELive nowadays if I'm gonna totally bust my butt hefting huge ponderous spadefuls of rock-hard-frozen snow for half an hour.
innickelive by QuacksO May 15, 2022
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