Oddities and Humor

Okay, is this odd or just interesting.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/04/canadas-last-penny_n_1476664.html?just_reloaded=1

I taught my kids to count using pennies (it was in the days before we knew how many kids SWALLOWED them.)

They liked knowing it was money and not just blocks or toycars or balls.

Joe(Is Canada going to round up or round down?)Nation

I think the US needs to follow the same monetary policy as well.

As for rounding up or down? If the price ends with 2 cents or less then round down. IF the price is 3 or 4 cents then round up.

yeah, but this emoticon won't any sense at all anymore.

Joe( )Nation

Then emoticon inflation will drive that particular one to 5¢ I guess.

"If I had a nicker for every time I've heard that." has changed in my lifetime
to "If I had a dollar.... ."

And no one understands this joke anymore:

"Did you hit your husband in the head, Mrs. Smith."
"Yes, I did. He called me a two-bit whore."
"And what did you strike him with?"
"This big bag of quarters."

Joe(Two-bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! ...What?)Nation

Loosely quasisimiliar story Joe:
Richard Eggers arrested for fake dime in 1963. Fired in 2012.
Richard Eggers's fake dime crime 49 years ago has caused Wells Fargo to fire him in the wake of tightened federal rules on hiring. Richard Eggers says his use of a fake dime in a laundromat was a 'stupid stunt.'
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0829/Richard-Eggers-arrested-for-fake-dime-in-1963.-Fired-in-2012

Gah! A cardboard dime!
~Side story, about that same time I was working for an appliance factory (summer job) I was tasked to make 'holding boards' for the motor armatures.
To do this I had a drill press which I used to make a series of holes in a piece of 3/4 plywood.
Plywood back then wasn't like today's, when I would tap on the 5/8" hole saw bit to get the wooden scrap out, I would end up with a bunch of thin discs about the size of a nickel, each with a small hole in it's center.

I joked one day to one of the guys on the night shift, that we could make "wooden nickels" out of them. In a flash, he picked up about fifty of the discs and was off to the paint shed.

A bit of wood putty in each one and some creative 5s on them, a dip in some varnish and he had a fistful which he proceeded to hand out at every occasion.

"Here's how much I think I'd pay for that opinion." One wooden nickel.
heh.
He made some with ONE on them and stained red. One red cent.
Hilarious.

Then some boss asked him where he was getting the time to make them and ~~where he was getting the discs.

Joe(Why am I in trouble??)Nation

Another oddity.

(Reuters) - Tourists and shoppers in London's bustling Covent Garden fell silent and grappled for their cameras as one man sang lines from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and a flash mob of wig-wearing actors boogied to pop songs before melting into the crowd.

Now the humor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouDku4FefU&feature=related

http://jezebel.com/5939161/rosacea-possibly-caused-by-tiny-mites-without-anuses-living-on-your-face


ARRGGGGHHH!!!!!

Joe(really)Nation

Those mites must be EVIL!

Are there no federal rules on presidents committing war crimes, murdering and torturing millions? Good ole rule of law USA.

Farmer, 74, Grows Cannabis Crop by Mistake
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/german-farmer-plants-cannabis-by-mistake-a-854008.html

There's about seven subplots out of that one. For starters, you only plant birdseed if you want to grow birds - every stoner knows that!

His birds must love him, but dial out for pizza a lot.

What have Pepe, Tassie Devil, Marvin and Sylvester got? Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

Man swallows diamond worth almost $14,000
Man swallows diamond in Sri Lanka: Police take suspected diamond thief to hospital for X-ray to prove his guilt or innocence.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0905/Man-swallows-diamond-worth-almost-14-000

I loved this article, good writing and a nice, crackly dry sense of humor.
"CAN WE NOW TRANSMUTE BASE SUBSTANCES INTO GOLD?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3067/can-we-now-transmute-base-substances-into-gold


Joe(I had such high hopes)Nation

Slow cooked neutrons! Yummy and high in fiber!

Furious restaurateur sets up fake sex site profile for customer who posted negative online review
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199643/Restaurateur-sets-fake-sex-site-profile-customer-posted-negative-review.html?ito=feeds-newsxml