Thursday, October 27, 2011

Genuine coin of the realm

Wouldn't mind having a piggy bank full of these.

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  1. That gives a whole new meaning to "small change".

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  2. What a stunningly dumb idea. A $1 MEELION dollar coin.

    Sure, carrying it requires hydraulically-operated pants, but that's what the government hydro-pants program is all about, eh?

    and getting change? Forget it.

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  3. JP sneers: "Dollars, mind you, not even pounds..."

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  4. @Paco, that'd be one damn big piggy bank.

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  5. Tie me kangaroo down! I'm with mojo, this is a stunningly dumb idea. There are easier ways to get in the record book. Can't you hear the OWS crowd, "Capitalist pigs! Proof of their greed! That could have ______! (man!).

    BTW, were there carbon credits for the production of this monstrosity?

    Deborah Leigh

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  6. That altruistic charity, "Project All-your Coins Our-way", must be rubbing it's hands with glee.

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  7. Albury: "Remember: we treat your money like it was our own".

    Mwahaha!

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  8. Easier ways to get into the record book?
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20118857-503544.html

    Cheers

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  9. That portrait of the Queen is terrifying. Either the artist is rabidly anti-monarchy or he used a pic of her telling off the Prince of Wails. Or both.

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  10. And why would it take 18 months to create? Was it somebody's hobby, or did that somebody milk a government job 10 times longer than it should have been?

    ooooOOOOOOOH! It makes me so mad.

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