Then came the two cents of Danny Ainge, the Celtics' president for basketball operations.
"Two cents of that $1.05 is for utilities," Mr. Marsh said.
"You feel you've put in your two cents of work for the community," Mrs. Dewey said.
Their prophecy promptly fulfilled itself: the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate oil rose to within two cents of the all-time record of $55.67 set last October, though it subsequently fell back a bit as speculative buyers decided to quit while they were ahead.
My tweet was quickly picked up by a conservative contributor to "Red State" who retweeted it and added her own two cents of "Classy" to it.
You say that only "two cents of every dollar given to them [the big animal organizations] trickles down to help an animal and the rest goes to the ad, the t shirt, the umbrella and the news letter".
More depressingly, in 1993, the U.S. Department of Education published "National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent" and this report indicated that merely two cents of each $100 spent on elementary and secondary education was used for gifted and talented education.
"Two cents of every development dollar goes to adolescent girls globally.
