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.

Fans of the Mormon boy band Everclean were taken aback (and affront, it would seem) when they popped the video of the group's Sons of Provo into their DVD players and discovered a movie entitled Adored: Diary of a Porn Star instead, the Salt Lake City Deseret Morning News reported today (Wednesday). Deseret Book Co. told the newspaper that it had removed the film from its shelves. Apparently the mix-up occurred after the producers of Adored and Sons of Provo each hired the same Los Angeles-based company to produce the DVD copies and distribute them. "This is hugely damaging," said George Dayton, head of business affairs for HaleStorm, the company that produced Son of Provo. Although Adored was described as a "heartwarming film about a porn star" and not a porn film itself, Dayton said that it matters little "whether it's some soft-core title or whatever. ... This title doesn't lend itself to good, clean family or LDS [Church of Latter Day Saints] -centered entertainment."

I wonder if Trey and Matt had a hand in this. This sounds straight out of ORGAZMO.

Well, there's no way to tell what the box office would have been without the shenanigans.

True. Which is why the belief is not unfounded, as opposed to correct.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, scientists studied several extended families for several generations in an attempt to prove that criminality, insanity, and pauperism were genetic traits found in "bad stock."

The jokes about political dynasties just write themselves....