Talk:Dime (slang)

message: Marijuana, the drug most associated with the term "dime", is not a narcotic.  This should be modified.
Is $10/gram standard?
Also, I've heard many people incorrectly refer to half of an eighth of an ounce as a dime, regardless of price... this is probably because cheap marijuana is often sold in $20 eighths. For instance, most marijuana is sold at $50 an eighth around my parts, but many people still incorrectly call half of that a "dime", even though it would cost $25.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.123.65 (talk) 00:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Drug Terminology

message: Actually attempting to put any kind of measure on a 'dime bag' is near impossible, as every area has it's own prices/strands. Also, in most cases, when the drug is sold on college campuses prices are grossly inflated, I'm told, as students typically are short on cash and are looking to make maximum profit. As a majority of Wikipedia editors are attending college, and have never purchased the drug outside of it may have biased perceptions on prices.
Nevertheless, though, as I mentioned before, prices vary so much it's pointless to quibble over them, unless maybe in the context of medically sold cannabis.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.4.34.56 (talk) 18:15, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unverifiable

message: Although I don't have any refrences, I know I and a lot of people i know use the word 'dime' sometimes in place of word's like cool, although it's usually used more with feminine things like an attractive woman, or a place (places are sometimes referred to as 'she' in AuE). I think this may be a strictly regional use, as I haven't heard anyone from a different area use 'dime' like this. Guitarhero91 02:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Another meaning

message: The sort of bullet list in the intro seems a bit odd, maybe move it to the body at some point and turn into a proper bullet list and provide a more compact version of the primary usages in the intro? --86.128.252.182 05:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot (talk) 06:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-12-13 Automated pywikipediabot message 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Cdn-dime-reverse.jpg

message: :At one time enforcement officials would tell their tipsters "If you have any information please drop us a dime."
Any cite for this? —Wiki Wikardo 18:07, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The phrase "drop [me] a dime" traces back to US public payphones which charged 10¢ for a local call in almost all jurisdictions until the late 1970s (and in some areas beyond that).  I know of no evidence that the usage originated with law enforcement, though.  Rossami (talk) 23:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculative etymology 

message: I don't necessarily oppose soft-redirecting this page to Wiktionary on the grounds that all of its content could be hosted there.  However, I do oppose redirecting it there until all the content from this page actually is hosted on Wiktionary.  That includes every definition, every usage example and every bit of etymology.  
If Wiktionary's treatment of the subject is less complete than Wikipedia's, then overwriting this page with a redirect to Wiktionary represents a net loss for the project.  It doesn't make sense to do it if that is the situation.--Father Goose (talk) 03:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've not yet found anything verifiable that was not already at Wiktionary.  Note that Wiktionary puts phrases on their own page so you may have to check multiple pages to check my work.  But if I missed anything, please pull it out of the pagehistory.  Thanks.  Rossami (talk) 19:40, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A full transwiki or nothing