Canadians "Spocking" their money

[thistlethorn]

Right. So the embedding didn't work. So, here's the link.

(Marcelle, send me one of the pink bills, and I'll redraw your Spock on it. :-))

Comments

[semyaza]

My brother and I agree that there should be a special issue of the $5 bill with the best of the Spocks on it (most are crap but the one is really good) and that Canada Post would allow it on our stamps so why not the Bank of Canada? If it was an official issue and had all of the security features then no one would think it was counterfeit.

[thistlethorn]

I think that's a great idea!

[semyaza]

It'll never happen but I do think we should change the faces on the bills from time to time. If it has to be a Canadian then why not Shatner? ;~)

[thistlethorn]

Shatner works for me. :-)

[semyaza]

The other night I was watching the episode of Man from UNCLE with Shatner and Nimoy. That was rather fun.

[thistlethorn]

I just love that one--the fact that they were in the same show together before Star Trek is just fun. ::-)

I just finished watching tonight's The Big Bang Theory episode and at the end they had a picture of Leonard Nimoy and the words: Your impact on our show and on our lives is everlasting. Which was a lovely sentiment.

[semyaza]

Spock had a huge impact on my life. I know that Nimoy had his ups and downs with the role but he was lucky to have found it and to have given so much to so many people through it. If it hadn't been for that role he'd have spent his career as a bit part player on TV - as so many actors did in those days. He was the right person for the part - such things don't happen often.

[thistlethorn]

Same here--HUGE impact. And, I agree, he was able to give so much to the world--to science, even--because of that one role. I think that he felt much more comfortable about Spock as time went on. One of the things Suzan and I talked about (early in our friendship) that made us like him was that in many of the photos we saw of him in his homes over the years, there were always lots and lots of books--and not all neatly arranged by some designer, either--real books, paperbacks, hardbacks, books stuffed back into shelves higgledy-piggledy the way that the bookshelves of people who read a lot of books look. :-) The way I imagine your bookshelves look. *g*

[semyaza]

I have three rules. I don't put books in direct sunlight, I try to keep them off the floor, and I don't allow them to lean. Other than that, yeah, they're standing or stacked wherever I have room for them.

[semyaza]

Btw, NBC missed the best one here.

[thistlethorn]

I liked that one. And there was a Miror-universe Spock that almost completely obliterated the former Prime Minister's face.