Happy 25th birthday Loonie

That would be the $1 Canadian coin which replaced the one dollar bill 25 years ago.



http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1219787--loonie-celebrates-its-25th-birthday

And now with the Toonie (the $2 coin) when you take the change out of your pockets you find you have....$10.00

 

Mods, please move this to nobodyfuckingcares.com. ;D

 

The US should have $1 and $2 coins, too.

 

Um, the U.S. does have $1 coins.

 

And most modern vending machines accept them.

 

True dat. My bad. I just haven't used one in a while.

 

About the only place I do seem them is casinos. For them to become more common, we'd have to stop printing $1 bills, as the Canuckistanis did.

 

Fine with me. A dollar today is worth what a quarter was 40 years ago anyway. People will bitch about not having paper dollars for a little while but they'll get over it.

 

I never would have guessed it was 25 years old. I don't mind them, it's easy to root through your change and fish out a loonie at Tims and as JR pointed out on FB, when you come home from a night at the boozer you have enough loonies and toonies in your change to fund another night out.

 

The Loonie was a CIA inspired plot to try and get Canadian men to stop going to strip clubs and for all the good Canadian strippers to come to the US where the military needed them for morale. The theory went that if you made the $1 a coin it would be both harder and strange to tip the strippers. Good looking strippers who didn't get tipped and who were sick of "slot machine" jokes would move to the US. Canadian men meanwhile would turn into sexually frustrated henpecked people.

USA! USA! USA!

Romney 2012

 

I'll buy that.

 

Given that the effect is similar with £1 and £2 coins, I have a theory that the quality of a night out is directly related to the amount of change you have at the end of it, as a result of being too damn drunk to count out multiple coins when buying another pint.

Count up £15 in change the next morning, and you know you had a good time.