----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" Subject: Re: PESO - A week-end story of enablement
> >> Hey Knarf - isn't a looney a $2.00 canadian bill ? > > A looney is a $1 coin, so called because there's an image of a loon on > one side (I can never remember which is obverse and which is reverse - > the Queen's on one side and a loon the other; you figure out which is > which). > > The $2 coin has a polar bear on it (and the Queen on 't'other side), > but it's called a tooney. As in a two-dollar-looney. Aren't we > clever? > > Our $1 bill went out of circulation maybe 20 years ago, the $2 bill > maybe 10 years ago... I wanted the Two nicknamed the "Twoodle", but failed in the attempt. It was quite amusing when they switched out the dollar bill for the dollar coin. I was working for Astral Photo at the time as a retail drone. The amount of abuse we took was astounding. The bank branches kept dollar bills for as long as they could because no one wanted the coins, people would refuse to take them as change, sometimes refusing the entire tansaction unless we were able to give them back anything other than the coins. At the same time as the mint put the dollar coin on out, they flooded the market with two dollar bills so that stores wouldn't have to give people as many coins as change. In Regina, the two dollar bill has a rather colourful history, so we also had people being offended when we tried to give them two dollar bills as change too. It was quite the gong show at times. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
