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Points made via obnoxious payment. - Foxboy - 06-07-2011
Tuition Paid in Ones - Youtube vid, embedding disabled.
Disputed doctor bill paid in pennies, payer cited $140 for disorderly conduct.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Wiregeek - 06-07-2011
The doctor bill revealed an eternal truth - you should never attempt to pay your debts ballistically.
Payer was cited $140 for disorderly conduct, because he was a giant cocksmith, and was, in fact, acting disorderly.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Tow the line - in pennies. - Rev Dark - 06-08-2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzc8vS-ac-g
- Rod.H - 06-08-2011
Well now I know a way to pretend you've got a lot of money, get it in dollar bills. 'Cause this fails to work in countries where the lowest major denomination is a coin. Or would it? You've got a dollar coin over there, would some of these situations would've been more interesting if those were used?
I imagine Zoner still has a stash of $2's, to which he's probably added the $1 coin. I'd probably use the AUD$5 coin for thing's if I could get a stack of them in the circulated form.
- robkelk - 06-08-2011
You can't go into a bank in Oz and say "I'm going to be parking at meters a lot for a week or two, so please give me my withdrawl in fives"? We dont have a $5 coin in Canada, but I can get a withdrawl as a roll of $2 coins if I ask for it...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Rod.H - 06-09-2011
Most of the fives I've seen are special commemorative coins - the size of silver dollars, not something very wallet friendly. Plus they're now apparently only minted in solid silver.
- Black Aeronaut - 06-09-2011
*Blinks* You mean to say that five Canadian Dollars worth of solid silver is that much!?
- Rod.H - 06-09-2011
Actually a solid silver coin with a face value of five Australian dollars consisting of 1 & 1/7 Troy Oz (which doesn't seem right) or 36.31grams (which does) of silver will set you back AUD$65 for proof grade directly from the Mint. A 1 ounce proof-grade Australian Silver Dollar - if you could get it - from the same source is also AUD$65.
And people think I'm somewhat mad for wanting some cheep circulated silver dollars for a prank I've been planning to pull for years at Christmas time: "Right, you've found a puny little coin in your plum pudding. Check out the coins I've found in my ice cream!" For apparently you should only use non-reactive base metal coins - like gold & silver - in food.
- robkelk - 06-10-2011
Ah. I thought for some reason that you had circulation $5 coins in Australia; I didn't realize they were commemorative (and expensive).
http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/5-sterlin ... rod1110004]We have that sort of $5 coin in Canada, too...
(Edit: And we have http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/0.5-g-fin ... prod980010]a gold coin that almost anyone can afford to buy, too. The photo on that page is slightly misleading, though - it's about the size of a dress shirt's button. Don't sneeze when you're holding it...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012