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Penny vs. the other shoe

Posted by Platypus on September 07, 2004

Apparently, the "penny dropped" means the same as " the other shoe dropped". What shoe, and why does it's dropping lead to a realization ( I threw-in that vulgar "z" to peeve ya'll troubled by the absence of an "s" in math)?

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