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Where fMRI is concerned, “a penny for your thoughts” is currently more like “a million pennies for a group-averaged hemodynamic response to highly constrained stimuli under entirely artificial conditions.”
In a recent television interview a British actor was recounting an anecdote in which he used the idiom the penny dropped , which means `I saw the light, came the dawn.
It was a low-class, penny ante affair, therefore an excellent opportunity for immigrants and blacks.
On one occasion, as our deliberations were drawing to a close after many months, we came to a particularly niggling point of dispute regarding the cost of some phase of the project--I have forgotten which--and, in frustration and exasperation, I burst out with, You must realize that if you want to earn a penny, you've got to spend a penny!, whereupon, much to my consternation, all those present fell about laughing merrily.
A penny won't buy much, even on the Web.