I love how "pauperism" was considered a genetic disease.
Well, you know, with class mobility what it is(n't)...
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:27:21 am PDT #3554 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
amych - Oct 05, 2005 9:28:43 am PDT #3555 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
New nickel.
I like it better than the GIANT SCARY PROFILE version on the nouveau buffalo nickel -- but really, why the constant futzing with nickels?
Narrator - Oct 05, 2005 9:30:59 am PDT #3556 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Collectible market. Change the design of the money, collectors buy mint ones.
P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2005 9:31:50 am PDT #3557 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sally Ann? Salvation Army. No idea where I got that from.
Canada?
I've heard it from all my family members, and seen it in Margaret Atwood. Possibly even heard it in Leonard Cohen.
Can't recall hearing or seeing it from a non-Canadian source.
shrift - Oct 05, 2005 9:31:55 am PDT #3558 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
There's nothing like having an exec forward you an urgent e-mail with a question at the top, and upon scrolling down to the bottom of the e-mail forward chain, finding your original e-mail there with the answer to the question he just asked.
Either no one bothers to read the text of my messages, or they think that if they ask me enough times, I'll eventually change my answer.
Clearly they've never tried asking me out on a date.
Calli - Oct 05, 2005 9:32:07 am PDT #3559 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
collectors buy mint ones.
Don't all nickels come from a mint? I'm confuzzled.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:34:08 am PDT #3560 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Good point, PM! I googled, and found the term on a page about the history of Canada and the Salvation Army.
Now I can eat sushi untroubled.
SailAweigh - Oct 05, 2005 9:34:57 am PDT #3561 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
"mint" is also used to describe the condition of the coin. "Mint" condition is one that is virtually untouched, unmarred, as in "fresh from the mint."
Narrator - Oct 05, 2005 9:35:02 am PDT #3562 of 10002
The evil is this way?
"Mint" meaning never been in circulation. Costs extra.
The nickel got changed recently because of the anniversary of the Lousiana Purchase, which happened under Thomas Jefferson, who is on the nickel.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:35:42 am PDT #3563 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't all nickels come from a mint?
Mint is the condition descriptor -- they'd need to be just like they came from the mint, ie uncirculated. Like on the shopping networks.