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  • Thumbnail for Fortune teller machine
    a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a penny in the slot, her eyes would flash...
    9 KB (1,283 words) - 18:43, 8 July 2024
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    Coin pusher (redirect from Penny Falls)
    A coin pusher, or a penny pusher is a type of arcade game with the objective of winning prizes in the form of coins or other items. Prizes are won when...
    6 KB (846 words) - 23:59, 15 July 2024
  • Penny in the hole (also called penny seat, penny slot, tossing the penny, and pitch penny) is a pub game. It involves throwing coins across the room and...
    4 KB (417 words) - 11:54, 3 December 2023
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    is shameless." In 1899, The Times also printed a letter inveighing against "vicious demoralising picture shows in the penny-in-the-slot machines. It is...
    8 KB (947 words) - 14:21, 1 May 2024
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    Fionn Regan references this book in his song "Put a Penny in the Slot". The surname of the lead character, Syd March, in Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral...
    9 KB (1,113 words) - 21:32, 2 June 2024
  • sequel to Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls (1995), the film stars Riffel, reprising her role as stripper Penny Slot / Helga, alongside Glenn Plummer, Peter Stickles...
    5 KB (432 words) - 23:13, 1 July 2024
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    in hit series' This Is England '88 and Normal People. His song "Put A Penny In The Slot" has been offered as an iTunes Free Download of the Week. The...
    15 KB (1,594 words) - 20:38, 18 July 2023
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    use. Denominations can range from 1 cent ("penny slots") all the way up to $100.00 or more per credit. The latter are typically known as "high limit"...
    78 KB (10,571 words) - 02:29, 8 August 2024
  • newspapers, critic William Archer suggested that in the golden age there would be penny-in-the-slot machines by which a man could kill himself. Modern...
    24 KB (2,756 words) - 00:08, 24 April 2024
  • Timbuktu (novella) (category Novels set in Baltimore)
    novella is referenced by Fionn Regan in the song "Put a Penny in the Slot" from the album The End of History. In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version...
    3 KB (246 words) - 14:13, 27 October 2023
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    The British penny (1⁄240 of a pound sterling), a large, pre-decimal coin which continued the series of pennies which began in about the year 700, was...
    29 KB (4,123 words) - 02:18, 12 May 2023
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    be put to the test. In response to the MANTRA study, an English bishop said, "Prayer is not a penny in the slot machine. You can't just put in a coin and...
    30 KB (3,422 words) - 18:21, 12 August 2024
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    The Penny Dreadfuls are a British sketch comedy troupe consisting of comedians Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck, often supported by Margaret Cabourn-Smith...
    7 KB (423 words) - 02:27, 29 April 2024
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    Paul Auster (redirect from The Red Notebook)
    of the same year. The lyrics of Fionn Regan's 2006 song "Put A Penny in the Slot" mention Auster and his novella Timbuktu. In the 2008 novel To the End...
    73 KB (7,013 words) - 05:26, 31 August 2024
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    of video games at Curlie Gameroom Show, Penny arcade related website PennyMachines.co.uk, British penny slot and amusement machine website Illustrations...
    31 KB (3,310 words) - 18:31, 8 August 2024
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    International Exhibition (1906) (category All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English)
    train, a toboggan course, a helter-skelter and a gondola. The Pike featured penny in the slot machines, a maze, and Professor Renno and his Palace of Illusions...
    6 KB (485 words) - 10:33, 17 February 2024
  • James Kenyon (cinematographer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    had also built a business with the travelling showmen supplying "penny in the slot machines". Although associated in partnership with Sagar Mitchell...
    4 KB (597 words) - 09:55, 3 April 2024
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    Golden Mile (Blackpool) (category Tourist attractions in Blackpool)
    catchpenny trickeries etc., while the shops behind are let for two-headed giantesses, fat women, penny-in-the-slot indecencies etc., then what a disreputable...
    4 KB (475 words) - 16:19, 8 July 2024
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    triumph."[citation needed] All the reviewers singled out for particular praise the duet for the automata, "Put a penny in the Slot".[citation needed] A later...
    28 KB (4,011 words) - 06:10, 27 April 2024
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    Faith healing (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference)
    be put to the test. In response to the MANTRA study, an English bishop said, "Prayer is not a penny in the slot machine. You can't just put in a coin and...
    84 KB (9,308 words) - 13:32, 28 August 2024
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