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If the Bank of Canada got its head out of its ass, they'd kick her off our $20 note when the new ones comes out in the next 18 months and put Trudeau there instead. [digression... Trudeau miniseries was on CBC tonight.. wow. Perhaps the first CBC show that changed camera angles more than once every 3 minutes. Very, very well done.] Except then all our money would have dead white Prime Ministers on it. And there'd be 3 Liberal Prime Ministers to 2 Conservatives, which would inevitably cause somebody to go into a rage about patronage and all that stuff. [digression... Nevermind that Robert Borden was a complete tool who set back Anglo-French relations a few decades and did nothing of any substance aside from follow Lloyd-George's commands and avoid getting Canada wiped out in World War I and thus doesn't deserve to be on our hundred. Which is icky brown. Which is unusual.]
In any case, our money keeps on getting more Eurotrashy and less like fugly Yankee-money (which all things considered, I'd call an improvement) as time goes by.
Behold the power of the Laurier and Macdonald, American infidels! Note how the usage of colour makes it possible to easily identify the money in your wallet. Ooooh! How novel! Unfortunately, we lack the special Communist-fighting powers that your bills have with the whole "In God We Trust" thing. Maybe we'll catch on the next time we replace all our banknotes.
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the ability to read and form memories allows us Americans to easily identify our money. besides, if you can't tell the difference between a $1 bill and anything else you can put it in a candy machine. if it is a $1 then you can have delicious candy, but if it is anything else you have to put it in your pocket and go home sad and hungry (this is all void if you go to a weird machine that also gives change for large bills. your SOL then, i guess).
quote:If the Bank of Canada got its head out of its ass, they'd kick her off our $20 note when the new ones comes out in the next 18 months and put Trudeau there instead.
Trudeau, why would we want that a$$ on our bills. I had to live through his leadership and I certainly wouldn't want to see his face everytime I pull out a bill. When the russians shot down KAL 007 my wife's sister was on it, when her parents asked Trudeau what he was going to do about it, his response to greiving parents was "What do you want me to do about it, start a war with the russians?" I realize that there was no way we were going to get the truth from the russians, and later the americans but his answer should have been a little more cafefully worded to greiving parents. No, sorry this man was no leader he was an a$$ and deserves to be placed on an outhouse seat not a bill.
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Why "read" money when you can perform the mystical ritual known as "the glance?"
Expends less energy. I thought that was what the American ideal was all about.
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Jacob: It may have been the same point you made, but I said it better. :-)
Tom: There's an appreciable difference between the time it takes you to tell the difference between a "1", "5", "10", and "20" and the time it takes you to tell the difference between colors?
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The US Treasury wants to make American money look like that funny fancy-collored messa shit that the French use by like 2004. Shit like a yellow $20, a blue $5, & a red $10.
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