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Some older kids were in the habit of offering a young and gullible sibling the choice between a nickel and a dime. Every time the kids did this, the younger sibling chose the nickel, “because it’s bigger.”
One day, a friend took the poor kid aside and asked, “Don’t you know that a dime’s worth more than a nickel?”