First one has been tagged and released at the Avatar snack counter. Next one is teed up and ready to go. I figure the Olympics is a good time to be letting them go free.
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haha, i guess i could embrace the trend. perhaps it may confuse/intrigue some of the olympian visitors coming through this week.
Bump. In honour of Mr. Nimoy. Apparently this (Spocking your fives) is once again gaining traction in Canada. I, for one, am proud!
{Checks wallet for fives…}
Isn’t Vancouver kind of like the Seattle of B.C., i.e. with a ratehr large tech community? Techies love sci-fi, especially the Star Trek franchise (I prefer TNG over ToS, myself). I could easily see the meme of defacing fives get enough of a hold that seeing the results would be a common occurrence.
p.s. Sorry for not knowing who Wilfrid Laurier is. The little bit I know about Canada I learned from my Victoria-born grandmother, and founding-era history didn’t come up much in our talks.
I don’t know how it would look on the new fives, come to think of it. And I very seldom get the paper ones anymore.
Links in this thread generally don’t work, but:
Samples of Spock $5’s:
Maybe Spock is Sir Wilfred Laurier. Might want to have a word with him about that Ross rifle procurement.
Try defacing gold pressed latinum?
Bank of Canada sez: “Now cut that out, everyone! Leave our fivers pristine!”
I still can’t figure out why Lincoln isn’t on Canadian fives… and it’s been half a decade!
all I get are ads.
it should seem obvious that fivers would be the target, as the Vulcan salute looks like a V
Fool of a Ferengi! Scotty retired as a captain!