$2 Canadian

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$2 Canadian

Fox — 9/7/2006 2:59:34 AM (archived)

When I was there, there was no $2 bill. There's a $2 coin, called the "toonie", because the $1 coin is called a "loonie", because it has an engraving of a loon (the bird) on its reverse. The smallest denomination of paper money in Canada is the $5 bill, and I couldn't tell you what's on it, other than QEII. I wish I had kept some samples, but I needed to convert every penny when I came back to the States.

Maybe Laurie or Jacob knows about the old $2 bill. Maybe it's old enough that it has the old colonial (pre-Maple Leaf) Canadian flag, with the Union Jack in the corner, indistinguishable in the engraving from the identically proportioned star-spangled blue quadrant of the US flag.

In other news...

As far as I know, race car is properly two words.

On the other hand, a case can be made for "Nyahk" being one syllable.

If the entire population of China walked past you in single file, when would they have time to reproduce? In public, with their neighbors watching???

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"So you think you know everything?" - Robert - 9/6/2006 5:21:20 PM
- re: "So you think you know everything?" (n/t) - Brennan Riddle - 9/17/2006 11:24:41 PM
- Full Moon - nick hoffman - 9/8/2006 10:35:05 AM
  - You know... - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2006 5:40:10 AM
- $2 Canadian - Fox - 9/7/2006 2:59:34 AM
  - try this... - podrock - 9/8/2006 3:52:31 AM
  - Chinese reproduction practices. - Bowser - 9/7/2006 1:48:41 PM
  - Moron the toonie... - McFly - 9/7/2006 1:08:06 PM
    - re: Moron the toonie... - Laurie Street - 9/7/2006 3:49:21 PM
      - LOL - McFly - 9/7/2006 4:15:29 PM
    - Could it be...? - Mary Anne - 9/7/2006 1:55:34 PM
- The only one that I knew.... - FrankC - 9/7/2006 12:37:13 AM
- Fun. Dragonflies, though, live up to 6 months, and eat mosquitoes. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/6/2006 6:54:49 PM
  - The writer might have gotten them confused with "mayflies." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 6:57:52 PM
    - True. Mayflies don't even last a month. Go figure. - Bowser - 9/6/2006 7:50:50 PM
      - I suppose you could call them "dayflies." - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 9:28:24 PM
        
        "You don't get the kind of sun now that you used to get," - Tony - 9/7/2006 3:49:55 PM
        
        The red ones "Mayday" flies. Or is that the dying ones? (n/t) - Bowser - 9/7/2006 1:00:12 AM
        
        Most mayflies I've seen are green - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 1:26:03 AM
        
        Duh! The live in nature! Maybe those are "day in May flies". (n/t) - Bowser - 9/7/2006 1:47:41 AM
        
        Probably why we don't see many "day in June" flies. Too rare. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/7/2006 3:20:41 AM
        
        I think those are called "junebugs". - Bowser - 9/7/2006 5:15:25 AM
        
        re: I think those are called "junebugs". - Laurie Street - 9/7/2006 3:54:17 PM
        
        YUCK! (n/t) - Bowser - 9/8/2006 1:16:03 AM
- No. But I know where to find it. - Tom Brosz - 9/6/2006 6:36:00 PM
- The other side of the coin - Robert - 9/6/2006 5:23:37 PM
  - 3! - Tony - 9/6/2006 5:36:13 PM
    - I got the hundred years war answer right... - alcaray - 9/6/2006 6:14:51 PM

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