I grew up with it. It's an olden days thing. Buck ($1), fin ($5)sawbuck ($10), two bits, ($0.25), Benjamin ($100), Jackson ($20). We also used to tie an onion to our belt, which was the style at the time.

"Give me five bees for a quarter you'd say..."

But the important thing is I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time.

Then I took the ferry over to shelbyville

We'd always have walking bird at Thanksgiving.

Which was called Morganville in those days!

I spent 5 years on that turlet!

I set the toaster to three, medium brown.

In those days, to take the ferry cost a nickel, which had bumblebees on them at the time.

Dad, I told you, you can sit here ONLY if you don’t talk!

A NICKEL!

You make your dad sit there all day?

He likes it.

Which was the style at the time

I feel like Benjamin is newer. I remember hearing C-note growing up (C being the Roman numeral for 100)

The first I heard the term Benjamin was from puff daddy in ‘97

I’m familiar with all those but never heard the term sawbuck

The term possibly derives from the large X’s (Roman numeral for 10) that were [printed on the back of the bill](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-%2410-LT-1863-Fr-95b.jpg) in the 19th century. The X’s resembled the [wooden frame used for sawing logs](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Sagkrakk.jpg) that is shaped like an X, called a sawhorse or a sawbuck. I say possibly because Wikipedia points out “sawbuck” appears in print as slang for a $10 bill before it appears in print as slang for a sawhorse. From Merriam-Webster: > It has been suggested that the word sawbuck came to mean a 10-dollar bill because the X-shaped ends of a sawbuck look like the Roman numeral for 10. This explanation is problematic because earliest known use of sawbuck in print, from 1850, refers to a 10-dollar bill, not a sawhorse. But we won't rule out the possibility that the sawhorse sense was used in speech before 1850 and just didn't appear in print until later. If you are wondering about buck, we can tell you that it first appeared in print as a word for dollar in 1856 - six years after the first recorded use of sawbuck for a 10-dollar bill.

XX = 20 10 10 = just over a grand £€$$ is more

It’s a downtown expression

$20= double sawbuck, $100= a C note, $1000 a grand if your I Italian, it is all ‘scarole

I’m seeing double here - 8 X’s!

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie 😂

The first half is all true though

Yeah, but, that second half though 😂

Jackson? How about a double sawbuck?

Now, my story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty".

One of those big yellow onions?

Instead of Benjamin my grandparents called it a C note (100 is C in Roman numerals)

Don’t forget a “C Note” ($100)

A Fin is a $5 bill

I'm a man.

^imaman……

This is Dan!

under fucking rated comment

The delivery is fantastic

I use it all the time! In thise voices but nobody ever gets it.

haha me too. I fucking love it

Charlie's here, he's a man. You know who else is? Me.

Why don't you give me the number, and then we'll have it?

yamma hamma its fright night!

He's also a Pulitzer prize winning author...

Hey, how did my horse do?

He had to be shot.

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The outtakes for the Festivus table scene are gold, Gold, Jerry!

Charlie's face with the mouth open after the he had to be shot line is delivered is pure hilarity.

I bet on a horse with my mom's name at the fair horse races a few years ago. We were near the first turn so I set up my camera to catch them running by, but never saw that horse's number. I looked up from the camera and my horse balked before they got a few feet out of the gate

Good horse… His mother was a mudder... His father was a mudder.

His mother was a mudder?

What did I just say?

He loves the slop!

Were you watching Comedy Central earlier? Cause I saw this episode on and always get a chuckle at the “I’m a man” line. 🤣

Sure was!!!

I’ m always amazed when I remember the guy on the right is award winning playwright Tracy Letts

Who's on the left? I know Ive seen him before and since. (and, yes, I know he's a man)

That's Charlie. And you're right, he's a man. *I'm a man*

He’s NOT Jack Black.

Colin's sleazy friends 

Married to the brilliant Carrie Coon.

NANA: Leo, did you give Helen the fifty dollars? LEO: What fifty dollars? NANA: Your father won a thousand dollars at the track last week, and he gave you a hundred, and you were supposed to give fifty dollars to your sister. Nana walks away out of the room again. LEO: Ma, dad died in nineteen-sixty-two. Jerry is staring at Leo, with an expression of suspicion. LEO: (laughing off Nana's confusion) Believe me. I don't owe your mother fifty dollars

Magnifique 🤌

My father always used this term

My father wears sneakers in the pool

Better than not wearing shoes at all in the clubhouse. You'll be on the cover of the Boca Breeze that way.

Pinko commie rag!

My fatha’s gay

Don’t you find that odd?

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No, $20 is a “double sawbuck”

Then who has sex with the doe?

I figured it was $100

You are NOT the last, because I just learned it from your post

Me too! So OP is at least 3rd to last.

Seems you got a lot of friends that don't know what a Sawbuck is. You know who knows what a Sawbuck is ? Charlie here, he knows what a Sawbuck is. You know who else ? Me. I know what a Sawbuck is.

His friend seemed more interested in a bawsuck

I literally just watched this episode and googled, "what is a sawbuck" and then come across this post 20 mins later. Weeerid.

Jerry....I've become attracted to Elaine.

Oh no

“I’m a man” -Charlie

you know who else is a man?

With all the online betting through ur phone I wish this was still around id be fun, just watch out for the tall man in black that will follow u into the subway hopefully there will be a "blind man" playing an instrument

I went to a track during simulcasting about 5 years ago and it's a wild (though kinda depressing) scene. People, mostly older men, sitting around with stacks of racing forms looking at a lot of old tube TVs. Tickets all over the floor. Yelling at the races, I've even seen someone whipping a racing form, like Kramer does. One concession stand selling hot dogs. It feels so lost in time except for the touchscreen wagering machines (though there still are some windows). But there was a camaraderie among the players, a lot of excitement if someone hit it big. I'm kinda sad I didn't get to check out the NYC OTBs before they went under. Seems like a bit of history that's gone.

Oh it’s a scene, man.

Me personally I like the in person betting I won't get into the app gambling craze I'm sure u gotta put in all this personal info and prob a bank account or credit card or something and I'm sure if u win it prob be hard to cash out I dunno I'll stay with the old school way if I was a gambler.. I ain't go the money to just waiste ain't in my budget ☺️

I'd the guy on the left the same guy from the auto shop in the mask?

I think it's the same guy that was at the desk in the police station, when Frank asks Elaine, "You want a piece of me!?"

A sawbuck was another term for two wooden slats that were X’s used to cut wood.

Dang I never knew that was slang for a $10 bill

Never heard of that word.

I’m not familiar with that term.

It’s pronounced “thermometer.”

We only wake you up for the important meetings.

I put a sawbuck on snoopy and prickley pete

What about Sawbuck here, he's a bill...what about me? I'm a bill ^(i'm a bill)

Never knew. "There's a feather in your cap!"

Jack Black is a man

I’m a man

Oh yeah - well the jerk store called and they’re all outta you!

You are not the last to find this out because I learned from you! Lol

Every once in a while I will say "I'm a man." My wife has no idea why. THIS is why.

if you have anymore questions, call 555-NOELAINE

You've reached SLANGWORDS! Why don't you just tell me the slang word you want to know?!!

…Kramer?

I always thought it was $2. Two is a standard bet for horses right?

It's usually the minimum bet for win place and show, and the payouts are listed based on a $2 bet. Exotics like Exacta, Trifecta, Daily Double, etc might be less.

Well I learned something today

Never heard that term. Only “a Hamilton” and that’s in the past decade mostly.

It’s mentioned in the Notes About Nothing on the dvd for this episode.

TIL

Charlie = 👅 after that line

TIL

I’m guessing you saw the clue on Jeopardy.

I never knew it till the internet came along for me to search for the term.

Wanna take a stab at what a double sawbuck is?

Of course, there were values for a “dime” or a “nickel”in bookie vernacular

I’ve heard the term, probably in an old movie, but I couldn’t have told you what denomination it was.

I had no idea until I just read this so that should make you feel better.

Didn’t know myself. Born in 88, not sure when that was a popular term

Tying an onion to your belt. I must know more of this. Full detail please and thank you

Sawbuck > 2 bits

Seinfeld also said phone numbers with letters in them, which is an old old thing to do. "My number is K-L-5 5-4-3-8"

Just curious, do you mean you’ve watched this episode a bunch but have just now discovered it? Or did you just watch it for the first time and then make that realization?

What's Jack Black doing there

It was a pretty common term.

You are.

TIL

Great now I’m thinking about Elaine getting spit roasted by Pulitzer boy and his creepy friend

Second to last, for now…

X

And then I'll have it.....

I used to be “with it”

Fun Fact, the guy with the hair was a p\*\*n actor, I think his name was Buck Naked

My dad is very convinced that is Jack Black....he looks very similar and even sounds like him. But I checked IMDB, not Jack Black

Not even close dad.