Collectible market. Change the design of the money, collectors buy mint ones.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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.
Narrator - Oct 05, 2005 9:30:59 am PDT #3556 of 10002
The evil is this way?
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.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 05, 2005 9:38:42 am PDT #3564 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Fred Pete - Oct 05, 2005 9:39:32 am PDT #3565 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
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....