Hmm. I don't think there's anything quite like that in 'The Meaning of Liff' or any of its sequels. I mean, the closest I can think of offhand is the Bodmin (which is normally defined as the difference between what everyone throws into the kitty and what the Indian restaurant bill actually comes to).
"...so, I had the keema naan, and chicken jalfrezi with half a pilau rice, and - do we count the poppadums, they're free, aren't they? - and gulab jaman, so that makes mine ..." "...what do you mean, everyone needs to put in at least a pound more?"
Bodmins can be positive as well as negative - I remember when doing front of house for the G&S society at university, we'd count up the on-the-night ticket takings and programme takings, and it rarely matched with what we'd got recorded. Probably down to people giving us 20p for a 15p programme and saying 'keep the change'...
(I remember when we did HMS P94 (yes, Pinafore set on a submarine in dock at the end of WWII) we made the programme up to look like a ration book, and charged 3/- for it; we told people that anyone who could produce three SHILLINGS (in the days when the 5p was the same size as the old shilling) could have it free. Not many people did.)
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(I remember when we did HMS P94 (yes, Pinafore set on a submarine in dock at the end of WWII) we made the programme up to look like a ration book, and charged 3/- for it; we told people that anyone who could produce three SHILLINGS (in the days when the 5p was the same size as the old shilling) could have it free. Not many people did.)
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