Hey, Frank, check out Canadian band Spirit of the West’s album Go Figure, from 1991.
Song number 10 is called “A Ship Named Frank.”
Without $1 bills how do you pay strippers?
Canadian strippers are of higher quality - $5 minimum.
Rhubarb is correct. I use my left hand to extract a handful of change from my left pocket, and then use my right hand to sort and hand over the coins. No contortion necessary. What in the world do you do?
I don’t know what Boyo Jim does, but I’ve never found it hard to discriminate between coins in my pocket, simply by feel. I can’t speak for loonies and toonies, but for US coinage, between the size differences and knowing which coins are milled, and which aren’t I’ve got about a 90% success rate pulling out the coins I want just by feel.
I still have some loonies, toonies, and smaller change from time spent in BC in the 90’s. It’s not a substantial amount, maybe 5 or 10 dollars worth, but I feel like I should do something with them. Convert them at a bank, give them to a Canadian, something! Just hanging on to them seems wasteful.
A… uh… “friend” who spent some time in BC in the 90’s gave them US dollars. They were perfectly happy with them, or so my “friend” tells me. Of course I don’t imagine most Canadians have a ready supply of US currency. Other than strippers, that is.
I’ve got no problem identifying what’s in my pocket.
And it’s not a gun.
A higher cover charge and more lap dances.
Which is what, 50¢ US?
d&r very fast
Over £1 for a stripper? :eek:
I never liked “toonie” as a name for the $2 coin. I wanted to call it a “Moonie.”
Why? Well, the Queen is on the front, and she’s got a bear behind!
I wanted it to be nicknamed a “doubloon”. It’s a double-loonie, and doubloon already meant ‘coin’.
It didn’t catch on. 
Perhaps you should have a look at the value of the Canadian dollar lately. We’re almost at par - which is GREAT NEWS for Canadians living in the US while still maintaining $CAD bank accounts. Woot.
So she can give you back $5.50? 
Yeah, that’ll be part of your Canadianization process - learning to use loonies and toonies. I rarely have more than one or two in my change purse at any time.
(Actually, if I bought something worth $7.87, I’d probably hand them a five, a toonie, and 87 in change. You gots to get used to having two dollar coins, too.)
Welcome to Canada, eh, Frank?
Yes, loonies and toonies are actual money. 
I think of coins as falling into three different categories:[ul][li]“small change” (pennies, nickels and dimes): coins that are inconveniently-numerous to feed a vending machine for a typical item at a typical price, such as a chocolate bar;[]“change” (quarters), and []“big change” (loonies and toonies): coins that are a significant value and in small numbers can pay for a simple meal, cash fare for a return trip on a city bus, half an hour of on-street parking, etc. Real-world transactions, in other words.[/ul]The fact that almost all purchases, including vending-machine items, are a dollar or more, perhaps indicates that our coin regime has gotten out of whack with prices, and maybe we need to adjust it. [/li]
We use the term ‘loonie’ in newspaper headlines and everything; it’s the Canadian dollar’s unofficial English-language nickname.
Dollar coins are not change. They are dollars. He has 10 toonies to carry to his car. I assume if he was capable enough to carry the pizza to my door he can handle carrying the money back to his car. Now sometimes I am somewhat short in twoonies and loonies so I have to raid my quarter jar. Usually I just pull out a handful and hand it over. He gets a good tip that way. (Yeah, the tip may be don’t deliver pizza to my house! hehe.)
Perhaps, Frank, in an antique store, you can find a paperboy’s changer, that with a flick of a thumbkey, will spit out the right number of cents, nickels, dimes, and quarters. It hangs on your belt, and the important coins can hang out together in your pockets. Pretty soon, this will be replaced by a Bluefang card reader, and you’ll rarely need change. Yeah, right. :rolleyes:
I’ve made six trips to Montreal this year, with more in my future. I have yet to really adjust to thinking of loonies and toonies as “real money”. I’ve developed this bad habit over the last several years of dumping all my loose change into my laptop bag before heading through security at airports in the U.S. Unfortunately, I rarely end up cleaning it out, so that my bag ends up weighing about twice what it would with just my laptop and papers in it – and even when I do clean it out, there’s always a few strays wedged into the more obscure places. Now, I have to also worry about segregating the Canadian coins, which actually have some value by themselves, from the U.S. coins, which have to gang up in order to accomplish anything. I have taken to keeping a Ziploc snack bag in a pocket of my laptop bag to keep the CDN stuff corralled. And I’ve started segregating on the fly – $1 & $2 CDN coins into my left pocket with the bills, and the rest in my right pocket where I usually keep my U.S. change.