Monday, April 23, 2007

First to go is liberty

Then it will be the word United....

Via George at skippy the bush kangaroo, George at Silver and Gold Proof Coins:

The new $1 Presidential Coins has two firsts:

  • First U.S. Coin with edge lettering.
  • First U.S. Coin without the word "Liberty" engraved.
I don't think they'll dare make a coin with Dubya's mug on it. People would be defacing them all over....

Reminds me of this joke:
The Bush Stamp

The Postal Service created a stamp with a picture of President Bush. The stamp was not sticking to envelopes. This enraged the President, who demanded a full investigation.

After a month of testing, a special Presidential commission presented the following findings:

1) The stamp is in perfect order.

2) There is nothing wrong with the applied adhesive.

3) People are spitting on the wrong side.


I believe they will have to place GW's gravesite somewhere really hard to find, too.

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8 comments:

Sinfonian said...

I believe they will have to place GW's gravesite somewhere really hard to find, too.

That wouldn't be a problem if we'd just shoot him into the sun.

ellroon said...

I don't know if I want to be breathing his solarized dust though....

Anonymous said...

It is the coin of the unitary executive.

Anonymous said...

Sinfonian said...
I believe they will have to place GW's gravesite somewhere really hard to find, too.

That wouldn't be a problem if we'd just shoot him into the sun.


Does he have to be dead when we do this?

Regards,

Tengrain

Steve Bates said...

Symbolism aside, dollar coins are a wonderful idea. Dollar bills don't last long and have to be replaced frequently, at great expense to the taxpayer. And have you ever tried to stick bills in the slot in a soft drink machine?

From what I've read, these new coins will work in the same machines as the Susan B. Anthony dollars and Sacagawea dollars; however unpopular those were (for some good and some not-so-good reasons), it means that the technology already exists for the new coins. (Wanna play Post Office, anyone?)

Surely on this third try they'll get it right... I'm soooo tired of dollar bills.

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On the emerging thread topic... maybe Bush could be the first man to go to Mars. Surely, Republicans would agree to cut the budget for the project in half if we asked nicely...

ellroon said...

I thought men didn't want the dollar coins because it would make their pants fall down...

Bush on Mars takes on a whole different aspect than Bush into the sun... but I can live with that!

Steve Bates said...

ellroon, in my youth, my pants fell down frequently with no help from dollar coins.

As to Bush on Mars (all war symbolism aside), if the budget for the trip is halved, he won't be able to come back...

ellroon said...

I was rendered speechless temporarily by the mental vision of a young Steve coping with falling pants. Why they were falling is left to the imagination....

And we don't need to tell Georgie that budget cuts will make it a one way trip, do we? Why upset the guy?

Although Tengrain's question still needs to be considered.....