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'K, 'K, I got it! Now bring me the head of an altar boy – no, not that one, the little one.

Well, everyone likes a little head, I suppose…

Oh, look who’s back. :slight_smile:

IIRC our very own Lynn Bodoni has boasted about this too. As long as it gives you a nice warm feeling in your special naughty place, go right ahead, say I. It’d be a poorer world if we couldn’t be childish and silly when we wanted.

I could be wrong, and if I am I am sure somebody will soon tell me, but I believe it is illegal to alter US currency.

Did I dream that?

Er, given Kanada has a population of 33 million, that makes Catholicism the single largest religious group… which is exactly what I wrote.

WTF are you on about? I don’t mind taking heat and ridicule when I make a decidedly odd claim, but Catholicism being the ruling religion isn’t even vaguely controversial. You just gave the census statistics yourself. How is it some kind of conspiracy theory? :confused:

No it’s not. It’s not even approximately what you wrote. You said it was the “ruling religion”, which in a secular state is a pretty bold claim. You can defend it, or not (or perhaps explain how a census plurality equates to “ruling”), but don’t have a go at other people for taking your words at face value.

If I said that Coca-Cola was the ruling brand of cola, you’d know exactly what I was saying. In Kanada, Catholicism is the ruling religious flavour – as opposed to the charismatic, evangelical Protestantism which is Amerika’s ruling religious flavour. I wasn’t making any claims about the Pope dictating political policy.

Hey, he’s an Anarkist; it’s what he does.

Yes.
A) Don’t ever forget to put the superstitious and unconstitutional bullshit on the coins.
B) According to the USA, Jesus loves you. So it’s all good.

Yeah. He probably DID bring it up but then his advisors reminded him that the chuckleheads that are the majority of the American electorate would freak out and never vote for someone who would support the 1st Amendment.

Teddy (and everyone since him) backed down.

Well yes, because to the best of my knowledge, soft drinks have relatively little history of wielding executive power. I would thus look elsewhere for interpretations of your odd choice of words. By contrast, considering religious rule’s storied history, and your established conversational predilections, it’s hardly surprising that people took your words at face value, is it?

Also, may I just ask: if I were to become an anarchist here in the UK, how would I humorously mis-spell my country’s name to indicate my status? Only it’s already got a “k” in it, you see, which leaves me somewhat bereft of options.

UKKK?

I was an altar boy myself once (Episcopal acolyte, essentially the same thing with less Mary and less pederasty). Ah, to be so young and tender!

It’s certainly illegal to do that for malicious purposes or to commit fraud or counterfeit (such as altering a dollar bill to look like a 10 dollar bill), but as a practical matter money gets a lot of wear and tear, and people have been writing on bills for one reason or another since they were first issued. A little bit of a line from a sharpie is unlikely to become something you’d be arrested over.

Of course, marking bills yourself is inefficient.

Which is why I propose that all of you send your bills to me, and for a nominal fee I will erase any or all writing you request, and then personally put the bills back into circulation. Act now!

No doubt, he’ll start referring to Elizabeth II as “the Kween.” I do find it quite ironic that everything he posts here attempting to show how smart he is actually does show his intelligence!

“Ruling religion” implies the the Catholic church actually dictates policy in Canada. I think anyone who walked into a drugstore to buy a condom would dispute that.

A more accurate and less controversial description would be “most popular religion”. Since the census data support this, no one would be able to dispute it. But that’s not what you wanted: You wanted to stir the shit. I suggest you try again.

Away from the hijack:

I have a co-worker who asked me about this. Since I had a coin in my pocket, I showed him the engraving on the side.

Geez I hate anarKKKists.

United Cingdom.

Vending machines, mainly those stamp machines at the Post Office, give them as change.