September 21, 2007

Canadian dollar reaches parity with staggering U.S. greenback
posted by HawthorneWingo 17 years ago
  • LOLZ
  • Big enough ship to suck a lot of smaller ones under, too, if it comes to that.
  • NO
  • Cue southern labor. Speaking of which: how many more movies do we need with a Rocky Mt. view from New York City? It's almost as if Miss SC has been writing scripts for years.
  • Well, I, for one, gladly welcome our new Canuckistanian overlords.
  • Cool; maybe our vending machines will stop rejecting Canadian coins now.
  • Soon, one of our Canadian coins will buy one of your vending machines.
  • The "loonie" - ? Really?
  • PWNED
  • Sigh.
  • The Canadian masters are kind, they are beautiful to look upon and their cheese curds are delicious. Good, sweet Canadian masters, always nice to little 'merkans, always just and never hurts us...
  • We loves the Canadian masters. Just to know they're nearby, that they might even be thinking of us right now!, gives us a feeling of great inner warmth. Oh, joyous are we to be ruled by the Canadian masters!
  • Do I have to eat poutine now?
  • This is just trickle up economics.
  • We have met the Hoser, and he be us.
  • /still hasn't stopped laughing
  • The best part about the name 'loonie' is that the only reason the loon is on the one-dollar coin is because the dies were lost in the mail: wikipedia on the loonie. There's nothing more Canadian than having something important lost by Canada Post! Furthermore, the two-dollar coin was naturally dubbed the twoonie. This leaves Canada with what is without a doubt the silliest currency on the planet.
  • I still prefer calling the twoonie the 'Doubloon'. When it first came out, and some of them were falling apart, there was a small movement to call it the 'Lucien', after Lucien Bouchard: you had to accept it at face value and take the risk of separation.
  • THE USD IS HOSED HA HA HA HA
  • /orders things from Ebay
  • I bid twenty four dollars for Manhattan. How's that eh? But only if it's clean and not been used much.
  • As long as we don't have to drink Molson, it's all good.
  • The Canadian two-dollar coin stood a chance of being called a "moonie": it had the Queen on it with a bear behind. The name "doubloonie", though, has the added benefit of making quarters (25 cent coins) pieces of eight. That stash of Canadian Tire money is gonna be really useful now.
  • I keep forgetting to use mine. I bet I'm a millionaire now!
  • Coffee Crisps all 'round! *munch* *munch* *crunch*
  • Today Canada dollar = $1.0064 US!! Ha! Looks like a buck is the new peso.
  • Hey Koko, fish tick, Cap, RTD & sfred, how you all doing? Need some buying advice. As newly-minted millionaire Canucks, is it possible to purchase Americans? Is there a bulk discount/coupon available also? Thanks for any advice.
  • Imagines she would be willing to sell herself for a chance to move to Canada Hey, now you can afford me!
  • Sorry, I was out buying stereos and mini-bikes for the neighbourhood kids -- what was that?
  • Wow. I suppose the economists will spin this as more people could come to the U.S. and shop.
  • An unsurprising irony (considering the stereotypical notions of the peoples of each country) is that I can take a US dollar out of my wallet and spend it at any store within 20 miles of my home (that would be about ten stores), but if I go one inch into the US and take a Canadian dollar out of my pocket (not out of my wallet, they're coins, ferchissake) a clerk will look at it like it smells bad and ask that I use "real money". On a recent trip I accidentally tried to use a Canadian quarter at a toll booth, and the attendant told me to "save that for the parking meters". "The Almighty Dollar is in Almighty Trouble" is brought to you in part by the George W. Bush Administration! George W. Bush, where Fuckup isn't just a slogan, it's our way of doing business!
  • Coffee Crisps all 'round! And Smarties that taste good.
  • /glare
  • On behalf of Her Britannic Majesty, you owe some back taxes, dudes. Paypal accepted. Email in profile etc.
  • WHEN YOU IMPUGN OUR SMARTIES YOU CROSS A LINE
  • Oh, Larababy, we're not impugning your Smarties at all -- they really do suck.
  • I noticed at Tim Horton's today that they had re-filled all the serviette (napkin) dispensers with US $1 bills. I guess you've got to cut corners whenever you can...
  • > we're not impugning your Smarties at all -- they really do suck Heh. In Federal Republic of United States, Smarties suck you!
  • I just fear to think what is going to happen so the dollar doesn't keep sinking. I've heard wars are good for the (USA) economy...
  • When it first came out, and some of them were falling apart, there was a small movement to call it the 'Lucien', after Lucien Bouchard: you had to accept it at face value and take the risk of separation. I thought the fall-apart Lucien had the double entendre of the flesh eating bacteria in his fall-apart leg.
  • "Fall-Apart Lucien" is the Canadian version of "Tickle-Me Elmo." N'est-ce pas?
  • Smarties are for sucking. 'Cause they're sweet and tart. Not those stupidy bitey ones.
  • When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red one last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Ephemera from my border childhood...
  • "Fall-Apart Lucien" is the Canadian version of "Tickle-Me Elmo." N'est-ce pas? More like a Furby recall.
  • Wait . . then what are the chocolate ones? Those. Those are really good.
  • a clerk will look at it like it smells bad and ask that I use "real money" That is all to change now, RTD. Soon clerks and shop owners will be waggling their eyebrows suggestively and asking if it would be possible for you to pay in Canadian money instead of those worthless Horton's face wipes. And we'll all be speaking a second language. *practices aboot = about eh?
  • I just fear to think what is going to happen so the dollar doesn't keep sinking. I've heard wars are good for the (USA) economy... Well the current one sure has lead us to unparalleled prosperity, hasn't it?
  • Prosperous for some, my lad. *pulls out suspenders, puffs cigar
  • What an ass. Take that however you want.
  • I will! Hubba hubba!
  • Methinks there are plenty of pretty girls who will gladly take their pay in dollars. And their heads are normal-sized, too.