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so I was at work today and I pulled some change out of my pocket to see how much I had, cuz I wanted to buy a soda from the soda machine. one of the coins I pulled out happened to be one of the new nickels with the buffalo on the back. I'd never really taken the time to look at all the detail in it so, since I had time, I checked it out. what I noticed was quite hilarious, yet also shocking and slightly worries me. if you look at the buffalo you'll see that they actually took the time to include the penis. this, naturally, cracked me up so bad seeing as my humor is pretty immature. then my mature side took over and ruined my fun. I started thinking, we're in the middle of a war, our national debt is staggering, we have no solution for social security, new orleans has been destroyed and we're spending an assload of money trying to rebuild it after katrina had its way with the town, yet the government is still spending money designing new coins that are irrelevant to the world. It really doesn't matter what 1/20th of a dollar looks like to anybody, except maybe coin collectors. I understand spending money on bigger demoninations, such as 10s and up, adding water marks, special ink, and tiny secret messages or patterns that one can only see through a microscope making it harder to counterfeit them, but who's gonna try to counterfeit a quarter or a nickel? we have quarters for the states and now we're getting different kinds of nickels. I understand that, as years go by, these coins will special designs will become collectors items and be worth money, but it's still pointless cuz people collect coins. they dont spend them. if a coin is worth 10 bucks, the owner isnt gonna sell it, they're gonna hold it till it's worth a lot more, which will only happen in a half a century. so, in a half a century, maybe, and that's a BIG maybe, our economy will go up a little bit, but I highly doubt it. so, our nation is going through hard economic tiems right now, yet our mint still sees the need to go as far to include a penis on our coins. I wonder how much money was wasted on that. who's terrible idea was it to redo our nickels. didnt we just get the shaking hands thing done? now we need buffalos too?? even before that, what was wrong with the original design we had for a long ass time? I just think it's terrible timing. then again it is pretty damn funny. they've managed to get a penis on our national currency. the most powerful country in the world has a penis on their currency. so, to sum up all I've said, whoever decided we needd a newer design on our currency that involved a penis is a retarded-ass, fucked up, son of a bitch who deserves celebrity status and free drinks wherever he goes. whatta pointless rant. I apologize for anyone who read this and was like "wtf mayte?"
and if you havent already searched your change for a nickel, you can find it if you google it. or, since I already googled it, you can just click on this link. http://photos1.blogger.com/img/174/922/640/NewNickel.jpg
