I love how "pauperism" was considered a genetic disease.
Well, you know, with class mobility what it is(n't)...
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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I love how "pauperism" was considered a genetic disease.
Well, you know, with class mobility what it is(n't)...
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?
Collectible market. Change the design of the money, collectors buy mint ones.
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.
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.
collectors buy mint ones.
Don't all nickels come from a mint? I'm confuzzled.
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.
"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."
"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.
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.