Amusing, but I wonder if they were stealing appliances for the electronics they can get out of them.
Ah, chips and such. I donno. Or is it for the wife? Christmas gift.
Remember to wipe the blood off of it first.
Really though, are they gonna put chips from a washing machine into a MIG. Or even learn about the rinse cycle for a freaking fighter jet?
No, this is just murder and theft.
Love it. Evening wear comes with a flashlight.
40 years later, it’s still one of my all-time favorite ads.
One of my all-time favorites, too. Thanks for posting it again! Still kills me!
Anticipatory Schadenfreude:
The unveiling coincided with an even more controversial debate coming to a head: whether to put President Donald Trump’s face on a new $1 coin.
Considering the long-standing American aversion to using a dollar coin, I look forward to Trump melting down over no one wanting to use his “beautiful” face coins. There may even be stories of beggars refusing to take them!
I’d be OK with a dollar coin, don’t really use cash anymore, but I’m not OK with a traitors face on it.
I’m very much not ok with a traitor in the White House. A moron at that.
Conversely, one can also foresee governmental mandates (or, at least, pressure) placed on retailers to use the coins, lest they face the wrath of Donnie.
Offer a discount if you pay all your income taxes in DonaldDuckBucks. People will be fighting in the streets to get them!
You can hit those coins with a hammer and dent his face. Then paint it in rainbow colors. The coin will still be legal tender. Looks like an invitation to me.
Pictured: Helmut Kohl
If the US makes a dollar coin with Trump’s face it, Canada will probably be okay if you call them by the nickname of our dollar coin.
Trump might console himself one way… I’m sure that if that coin ever gets minted, the moment he’s no longer in charge they will stop it, and people will hate the coin so much that it won’t get circulated a lot. Which means that they’ll be relatively rare, and they’ll be very valuable to coin collectors.
Therefore, someone will really value his face on a coin!
If people hate the coin, won’t they try to spend it just to get rid of it? That’s what I l’d do.
I think it’s more like they’d decline to accept it in the first place, and demand a dollar bill.
Cashiers won’t bother to refuse to take it, they’ll just stuff it in the cash register and deposit it at the end of the shift. They’ll probably avoid giving it as change, which means they’ll end up back in the bank faster than other coins or bills.
A lot of them will refuse because it’s not a denomination they’re used to, so they’ll assume its fake.
It also won’t work in vending machines, which has to be a significant portion of coin-usage in the US.
Only if Trump insists that it be a different size/weight/material than the current dollar coins.