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....

The nickel got changed recently because of the anniversary of the Lousiana Purchase, which happened under Thomas Jefferson, who is on the nickel.

I know. In fact, have the old-school, nouveau-buffalo, lewis & clark, and louisiana purchase designs in my pocketful o' change as we speak, all minted in the last couple of years. It's getting very boring -- plus, stuff that's mass-produced to sell to collectors is never the stuff that ends up being of any real collectible value.

So "mint" is just like saying, "as they were when they'd just been minted."

That probably should have been obvious to me. Oh well--thanks! Insert "Buffistas=Higher Education" commentary here.

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

Take that back! My family may be generations of batshit insane, but in no way are we a political dynasty.

Cashmere & tommy,

Indiana wants me. Lord, I can't go back there.

No offense, but I really hated living in that state. I'm glad I moved.