Your Twenties are about to become "Tubbies"

[Scooter]

Up to now, the only faces on our bank notes have been of the Queen or prime ministers (all men). The PM has said that the next currency series will include an "iconic woman".

[Joe Guy]

I'd look good on this, don't you think?

[Scooter]

I think already being dead is a prerequisite (the Queen excepted, of course).

[Joe Guy]

A lot of people might be interested in helping her qualify.

[rubato]

Up to now, the only faces on our bank notes have been of the Queen or prime ministers (all men). The PM has said that the next currency series will include an "iconic woman".

Whooooah you mean iconic like Tina Turner? She is THE iconic woman.





They'll be finding currency hidden in mattresses for generations.


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[Scooter]

Iconic Canadian women.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'd look good on this, don't you think?

I don't think you'd look good on anything, let alone Celine

[Scooter]

A lot of people might be interested in helping her qualify.

Don't you be dissing our Celine. Thems would be fighting words.

[Lord Jim]

Iconic Canadian women.

How about the current Prime Minister's mother?

[Bicycle Bill]

A lot of people might be interested in helping her qualify.

Don't you be dissing our Celine. Thems would be fighting words.

She may be a Canuck, but I'd be willing to bet it was mostly us 'Mericans who made her who she is by purchasing her albums and paying through the nose to go to her concerts.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

It's too bad they're limiting it to women, or they could pick the most iconic Canadian of all time...

I'm speaking of course of the late great:

[Scooter]

Well, he would be in good company with John A. MacDonald, our first PM and who is on our $10 bill, who managed to run the country for 20 years without ever being sober.

[Joe Guy]

I don't think you'd look good on anything, let alone Celine

[rubato]

A lot of people might be interested in helping her qualify.

Don't you be dissing our Celine. Thems would be fighting words.

Great pipes. Total shit sense of rhythm. One of the worst I have ever heard. My carpool partner was given a CD of Celine doing Stevie Wonder songs. My brain hurt for a week after hearing that.


Enormous head on a tiny body.

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[rubato]

A lot of people might be interested in helping her qualify.

Don't you be dissing our Celine. Thems would be fighting words.

She may be a Canuck, but I'd be willing to bet it was mostly us 'Mericans who made her who she is by purchasing her albums and paying through the nose to go to her concerts.

-"BB"-

Mostly the type of drunk math-illiterates who go to Las Vegas, in recent years. And in the end it is just a math thing; 30 million Canucks only produce 1/10th as many music haters as the U.S. and they have to fight their way out of the igloo past the polar bears and snow drifts, pull on their mukluks, and drive the sled team into town to buy her CDs.


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[kmccune]

Remember who was on the uncirculated 10K note ? (a republican did away with our big bills under the guise of the war on drugs

[Scooter]

Salmon P Chase. And there is no need for bills that large unless you are doing wholesale drug deals or something equally nefarious.

[Joe Guy]

A lot of people might be interested in helping her qualify.

Don't you be dissing our Celine. Thems would be fighting words.

Great pipes. Total shit sense of rhythm. One of the worst I have ever heard. My carpool partner was given a CD of Celine doing Stevie Wonder songs. My brain hurt for a week after hearing that.

Enormous head on a tiny body.

I don't see how you can say that Celine Dion has a "shit" sense of rhythm. You can't be a good singer without a good sense of rhythm.

[Bicycle Bill]

Remember who was on the uncirculated 10K note ? (a republican did away with our big bills under the guise of the war on drugs

Are you possibly referring to that noted Republican who was elected to four terms in office (Franklin D. Roosevelt)?

Bills of this magnitude were gold certificates (redeemable for their face value in gold) and hadn't been printed since the 1920s. There were $10K as well as $100K bills, also gold certificates, designed and printed in the 1930s (Series 1934), but since the gold standard had been repealed by an executive order of FDR in 1933 they were for internal use only and never issued to the public. They were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve — not Nixon — in July of 1969 for 'lack of use' and were removed from circulation and destroyed by the Fed as they were received through banks, although the $5K and $10K bills had, for all intents and purposes, effectively disappeared far earlier than that.

Though they are still technically legal tender, any surviving specimens of large-denomination banknotes (of any value or series) known to exist are in the hands of collectors or museums across the globe and command prices in excess of their face value due to their rarity when (and if) they do change hands.

Despite inflation — $500 today is effectively worth less that $100 was back in 1969 when large bills were discontinued/passively recalled by the Fed — there are currently no plans to re-introduce larger bills back into circulation.  The rise of electronic banking as well as concerns of possible counterfeiting are also cited as reasons for there being no need to reissue larger-value currency.

-"BB"-

[kmccune]

Well somebody must have thought there was a need for 10k notes one time,however absurd.It would be ridiculousy easy to verify and track who ever had a few ,drug deals wouldnt be happening if it werent for that absurd war on drugs bullshit.You cannot really stop anything by prohibition ,but you can create a bunch of laws that fill the prisons and create a new source of legal unmerited wealth for enterprising conservatives.There is very serious consideration to doing away with $100 dollar bills now ,I guess " Breaking Bad " scared the ,Cuban cigar smoking,scotch swilling crowd .
I do not like Holier then thou people ,because most everybody has dirty laundry of somekind (some say that thinking it is as bad as doing it ) Our elected officials need to start doing a little work for a change rather then killing peasants in lands our poorly educated children would hard pressed to locate on a map (news flash ) America sponsors terrorism in a big way .