Odd option deals, posted partly to amuse Jo and Harriet

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett have sold Terry Gilliam the film rights to Good Omens—for a groat. The deal requires an actual groat, not the equivalent in other coins.

And I don't believe they've actually made groats, which is an old English coin worth about fourpence, since about the 1780s. Which means he is going to have to go to EBay.

RU [Sirius, interviewing Gaiman]: He's going to have to do some searching… a magical quest.

GAIMAN: I mean frankly they're really cheap. We figured out we were going to need Farthings to pay the agent commission on a groat. I went to EBay and picked up a farthing for practically nothing.

An eBay search found groats from Edward III through Victoria, as well as a "hammered silver half groat" of Elizabeth I, and lots of baseball cards.

Odd option deals, posted partly to amuse Jo and Harriet

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett have sold Terry Gilliam the film rights to Good Omens—for a groat. The deal requires an actual groat, not the equivalent in other coins.

And I don't believe they've actually made groats, which is an old English coin worth about fourpence, since about the 1780s. Which means he is going to have to go to EBay.

RU [Sirius, interviewing Gaiman]: He's going to have to do some searching… a magical quest.

GAIMAN: I mean frankly they're really cheap. We figured out we were going to need Farthings to pay the agent commission on a groat. I went to EBay and picked up a farthing for practically nothing.

An eBay search found groats from Edward III through Victoria, as well as a "hammered silver half groat" of Elizabeth I, and lots of baseball cards.

The world is so full of a number of things

Most of the time, getting comments emailed is useful or amusing. Sometimes, it leaves me looking sidelong as people I don't know argue about the merits of an actor I have no particular opinion about and hadn't mentioned in my original post.

The world is so full of a number of things

Most of the time, getting comments emailed is useful or amusing. Sometimes, it leaves me looking sidelong as people I don't know argue about the merits of an actor I have no particular opinion about and hadn't mentioned in my original post.