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Thread started 08/23/15 9:22pm

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BANK OF CANADA URGES ‘STAR TREK’ FANS TO STOP ‘SPOCKING’ THEIR FIVERS





Bank of Canada is pleading with Star Trek fans to stop “Spocking” its five dollar bills. Since Leonard Nimoy’s death, Canadian folks have been “Spocking” the hell out of the five dollar bill that features a portrait of Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

Sir Wilfrid now sports, on certain bills at least, pointy ears, the signature Vulcan haircut and eyebrows and Spock’s mantra “Live long and prosper.”

According to Bank of Canada it’s not illegal to do this but:

“...However, there are important reasons why it should not be done. Writing on a bank note may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan. Markings on a note may also prevent it from being accepted in a transaction. Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride.”

I say Spock the hell out of ‘em if it ain’t illegal. Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s face wasn’t that interesting, anyway. In fact, let’s just make this a permanent improvement to the Canadian five dollar bill.

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Reply #1 posted 08/24/15 1:12am

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falloff falloff

This is old old news. I have read about this before falloff

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Reply #2 posted 08/24/15 2:24am

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I wish I could stand in solidarity with our Friends The Canadians but because Lincoln Freed the Slaves I can't doodle a Deanna Troi wig on his $5 dollar bill head...Now Andrew Jackson is a different story, he has Deanna's nose...

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Reply #3 posted 08/24/15 3:51am

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Awesome lol
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Reply #4 posted 08/24/15 4:37am

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giggle

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Reply #5 posted 08/24/15 5:57am

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I'm not sure what's funnier. The "spocking" or the fact they the government think asking people not to do it will decrease it.
If the milk turns out to be sour, I aint the kinda pussy to drink it!
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Reply #6 posted 08/24/15 8:52am

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lol



I'm sure if I were a bank teller it wouldn't be quite as amusing.
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Reply #7 posted 08/24/15 11:58am

Cinny

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lol It's a lot tougher to write on the plastic fivers.

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Reply #8 posted 08/25/15 1:48pm

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lol

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Reply #9 posted 08/26/15 2:03am

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I just realized that Leonard Nimoy's eyebrows weren't that angled in real life. neutral Duuuhhh... dead

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Reply #10 posted 08/26/15 8:53am

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Damn! I gave last Canadian fiver to boyfriend went he when to Toronto!
I gotta make one!
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Reply #11 posted 08/28/15 12:12pm

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lust said:

I'm not sure what's funnier. The "spocking" or the fact they the government think asking people not to do it will decrease it.


Canadians are very polite like that.

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