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Who Should be on the New Canadian Five Dollar Bill?

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First of all, I would like to preface this by stating that I think putting people's faces on money is probably something that we should have got ridden of long ago. It's an ancient form of propaganda that should have been dispensed with back in the iron age.

Canada recently had a poll to determine who will be on the five dollar bill.

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/banknoteable-5/nominees/

The two front runners are Terry Fox and Francis Pegahmagabow.

I think most people have heard of Fox and most people have not heard of Pegahmagabow.

For people who don't know, Terry Fox lost a leg to cancer and then set out to run across the country on one leg. He ran the equivalent of a marathon every day until the cancer spread to his lungs and he died.

Pegahmagabow was the most successful sniper in WW1. He served for the entire war and killed 368 Germans and captured over 300 more.



Now I'm a bit of history buff, so I know him, but I guarantee that most Canadians have never heard of him. We tend to not glorify military achievements as much as other countries.

I think that his story is one that should be made into a movie, but I'm less sure that he should be the face of our money.
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Sidney Crosby. He can skate away with his 5 dollar bill when there's trouble, like he always does.
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Excellent video. I never knew.

I don’t know how the face on money is, or should be chosen. Since some call our colourful money, Monopoly money, or funny money, maybe Leslie Neilson. But seriously, I have no idea. Both would be great, but the list of worthy choices is long.
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Fox. Running across Canada to raise awareness and money for beating cancer beats snuffing human lives in my books. Pegahmagabow's story would make a good movie, though.
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Excellent video. I never knew.

I don’t know how the face on money is, or should be chosen. Since some call our colourful money, Monopoly money, or funny money, maybe Leslie Neilson. But seriously, I have no idea. Both would be great, but the list of worthy choices is long.


I actually have a collection of foreign money (bills and coins) and the US money is probably the most boring of them all. Some of the poorest nations have the most beautiful money.

The USA doesn't do what is practical. Most nations got rid of the penny because it's a worthless form of currency. An American penny costs 1.5 cents to make yet is only worth 1 cent.

And that is because the cobalt industry lobbies so they can keep selling these useless pennies to the American Government, and the American tax payers do what they always do.

And they refuse to switch to polymer currency even though can not be damaged by water, can not be wrinkled, and can be accepted by every self checkout.
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First of all, I would like to preface this by stating that I think putting people's faces on money is probably something that we should have got ridden of long ago.


I agree Osman. The same thing applies to ALL forms of recognition such as hanging paintings or photographs of people, erecting statues, naming buildings, and whatever. The truth of the matter is that although some people might have done great things, but I know from personal experience that those people had hundreds if not thousands of people doing the "hard work" for them. I'm personally not a fan of honoring anyone if, for no other reason, recognition is divisive and one person's hero is another person's villain. Not to mention, as we are learning in my country, heroes change over time.

As for your own currency, my vote would be a generic indigenous person.
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The MacKenzie Brothers. What has more value than making people smile or laugh?
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As for your own currency, my vote would be a generic indigenous person.


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Here's the official shortlist of those eligible to grace the new $5 bill: Canadian BankNote Nominees

I am under the impression that those living, with the exempt of our Queen, are not eligible (sorry to Wayne Gretzky or Jim Carrey or Alanis Morissette).

My vote goes to Terry Fox. Second place to Robertine Barry (“Françoise”).

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Gordie Howe.

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Steve Smith (Red Green Show) - along with the quote "Spare the duct tape, spoil the job."

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I actually have a collection of foreign money (bills and coins) and the US money is probably the most boring of them all. Some of the poorest nations have the most beautiful money.

The USA doesn't do what is practical. Most nations got rid of the penny because it's a worthless form of currency. An American penny costs 1.5 cents to make yet is only worth 1 cent.

And that is because the cobalt industry lobbies so they can keep selling these useless pennies to the American Government, and the American tax payers do what they always do.

And they refuse to switch to polymer currency even though can not be damaged by water, can not be wrinkled, and can be accepted by every self checkout.

Polymer money, at least our version of it here in the UK, is horrible. It's harder to count because it doesn't separate easily, and it's so unscrunchy it almost jumps out of your pocket, your handbag or your purse. I know I've lost some but fortunately I've found even more but that's not a reason to like it.

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I've no idea who you should have on your new $5 bill but I'm telling you, you should forget about that $ malarkey and go back to £. Not just pounds, though, shillings and pence, too. Twelve pence (written 12d) to the shilling, twenty shillings (20s) to the pound. So much better for your children's mental arithmetic. You go to the shop and buy something for 67c and something for $1.98. What does that come to? Easy, yes? $2.65. How about 13/5 (thirteen shillings and fivpence) and £1 19/10 (one pound, nineteen shillings and ten pence)? Change from spending $2.65 out of $5 is easy. Change from spending £2 13/3 (two pounds, thirteen shillings and thruppence) from £5 is much harder to work out.

Not only that, but the coins are so much more interesting, even without the half and quarter penny ones. You get a 1d (a penny), a 3d (a thruppenny bit), a 6d (a tanner), a 1s (a bob), a 2s (a two bob bit), a 2/6 (half-a-crown or half-a-dollar - from when there were $4 US to the £), a 10/- note (ten bob), and then £1, £5 etc. Even better, things don't just get priced in £, s and d but also in guinneas. What's a guinnea? It's £1 1/- (one pound and a shilling). So you could go into a "posh" shop, like Harrods, and see a carpet priced at 500 guinneas. How much is that? Well, it's £500 and 500s which is another £25 so £525 - I'm convinced it was a way of making things more expensive without them seeming to be.

I hope I've convinced you all that decimal currency is for the birds and stepping 50years (for us in the UK) back in time to pre-decimal currency is the way to go.

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