 Lamenting the Penny
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Today Canadians have lost their common cents... The mint stops distributing our beloved maple leaf adorned penny and we will have to rely on the generosity of the USA to supply us with those copper bits that jingle in our pockets.
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Check Pants
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Our Copper bits are presently made of Zinc, the real Copper Pennies are worth 2.5 cents , last I heard.
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Stickman Yogi
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Today Canadians have lost their common cents... The mint stops distributing our beloved maple leaf adorned penny and we will have to rely on the generosity of the USA to supply us with those copper bits that jingle in our pockets.
Glad to see them go.
Live to love, love to live.
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Stickman Yogi
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Our Copper bits are presently made of Zinc, the real Copper Pennies are worth 2.5 cents , last I heard.
No copper here either.
Live to love, love to live.
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Today Canadians have lost their common cents... The mint stops distributing our beloved maple leaf adorned penny and we will have to rely on the generosity of the USA to supply us with those copper bits that jingle in our pockets.
Glad to see them go.
+1.... But that's just my 2 cents..... 
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Fe Butt
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Yeah, they've been talkin' about doin' this same thing down here for quite a while also, but..ahem..change is always hard, ya know. (...pun intended, of course) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I know the Canadian Penny has a maple leaf on one side and the Queen on the other side? Does this mean that the US penny will totally replace the Canadian one. Seems strange that another country (Canada) is willing to replace their coins from another country (USA). With living down here near San Diego I haven't been up North to witness how money changes hands and which penny you receive.
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I know the Canadian Penny has a maple leaf on one side and the Queen on the other side? Does this mean that the US penny will totally replace the Canadian one. Seems strange that another country (Canada) is willing to replace their coins from another country (USA). With living down here near San Diego I haven't been up North to witness how money changes hands and which penny you receive.
No. We are just going to be rounding off cash purchases.
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Worn Saddle
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Rounding UP I am sure..... 
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
Pat
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Monkey Butt
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Rounding UP I am sure.....
The government has worked hard to devalue the dollar, both US and Canadian, for 100 years just so we could get to this point. Expect the nickel to go soon as well. After all, it only worth what a penny was a few decades ago. The US government wants to do away with the $1 bill and replace it with a coin. I guess killing off the penny will leave room in the change drawer.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Saddle Sore
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i still have a pair of penny loafers
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New Tires
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New Tires
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i still have a pair of penny loafers
I thought this thread was about Bass Weejuns. 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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Loquacious
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I know the Canadian Penny has a maple leaf on one side and the Queen on the other side? Does this mean that the US penny will totally replace the Canadian one. Seems strange that another country (Canada) is willing to replace their coins from another country (USA). With living down here near San Diego I haven't been up North to witness how money changes hands and which penny you receive.
More Canadians go south in the winter and bring back spare change in their pockets I find American(non copper) pennies in my pocket daily which I save cause you guys won't take our change. People turn Buffalo nickels into cuff links and Liberty Dollars into belt buckles which would be illegal up here if we did the same with our equivalent I am told.
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3/4 Throttle
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Rounding UP I am sure.....
The government has worked hard to devalue the dollar, both US and Canadian, for 100 years just so we could get to this point. Expect the nickel to go soon as well. After all, it only worth what a penny was a few decades ago. The US government wants to do away with the $1 bill and replace it with a coin.
Funny, just recently there was talk of our "leader" directing the Federal Treasury/U.S Mint (a true misnomer for it's function)to coin several Trillion$$ coins in platinum to pay off the Federal debts. Save those Conferate dollars boys!
Karl
Odessa, MO
'07 America, Cinnamon Girl (aka: Black Beauty or Ol' Penny) - Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On
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If the US goes to a dollar coin, our strippers are going to have to learn a whole new skillset for accepting tips.
Cut it up.
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Stickman Yogi
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Once knew a girl named Penny Nickle. We used to call her 6 cents. True story!!
Live to love, love to live.
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Saddle Sore
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If the US goes to a dollar coin, our strippers are going to have to learn a whole new skillset for accepting tips.
so, ur sayin' they may jingle goin' out to the car at 4 AM ?
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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If the US goes to a dollar coin, our strippers are going to have to learn a whole new skillset for accepting tips.
Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea: Dollar coins have been tried and are still in circulation. Not too successful eh?
Strippers? . . . they have been adapting for millennia.
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Loquacious
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Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea: Dollar coins have been tried and are still in circulation. Not too successful eh?
I think the only ones using these is the Post Office. Buy a stamp from a vending machine and that's all you get in change. It was good when the grandkids were little and they got all those "gold dollars" for their birthdays. Now, even they don't want 'em.
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Fe Butt
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Yeah, you can add THIS to the "What's Wrong With Kids Today List", eh Steve?!!! (...heck, I guess I'M so old now that I'll GLADLY accept money given to me in ANY denominations AND from any SOURCE!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Learned Hand
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+1.... But that's just my 2 cents.....
You mean your 10 cents now... right? 
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Once knew a girl named Penny Nickle. We used to call her 6 cents. True story!!
Thanks for reminding me Keith I once knew a women named Penny Hoar even met her father who was a very funny guy. My girlfriend (retired exotic dancer) at the time and I stayed at their cottage for a weekend.
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Fe Butt
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...My girlfriend (retired exotic dancer) at the time and I stayed at their cottage for a weekend.
...AND???? 
(...you HAVE to know you've grabbed our attention with THAT here, Paul!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Still good friends after 40 years. She is on my wifes Facebook friends page the rest of the story shall remain in your imaginations. That wasn't 5W30 we were using back then.
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