This dope is miiiiiinnnnnt
Or "What's in your Changepurse?" I couldn't really decide on a clever title for this post.
Yeah. Anyway, I've been obsessed with the US State Quarter Program since I first heard about it six years ago. Well, not obsessed with, but very compelled by. I think that it's such a cool idea. I don't collect them, but I always check to see what I have jangling around in my pocket (mind out of gutter, please). I wrote a lengthy ode to the Connecticut quarter in an email a few years ago, and I'm afraid that I can't recapture the eloquence that I expressed in my homage. It is a great lookin' coin, with the tree and all, but, when you read the story of the Charter Oak, it's even better. It should be worth 27 cents at least.
Indiana's quarter, meanwhile, is pretty damn shitty. Sorry, Hoosiers, but sticking an Indy car in front of the EU symbol (or what looks like it) doesn't cut it. They could have commemorated the Little 500 or Rudy or the Jacksons, even though they're not dead.
I remember The Onion had a story about speculation that the South Dakota quarter might, just might, have a picture of Mount Rushmore on it. I searched for the story online but this is much better. Check out the size of that fucking bird, and it's primed to crap right on Thomas Jefferson!
The other major development is the Kansas quarter. I thought that a big tornado would have been cool (maybe Oklahoma will do that), but they went with a bison. Now there's at least four states that will be pissed off by this (even South Dakota had a buffalo on its short list of candidates). The Kansas quarter looks great except for two things:
1. It looks like a buffalo nickel. This could mean major holdups at vending machines nationwide.
2. What the hell is with that pansy-ass sunflower?? Can they make it so that the buffalo is eating the sunflower?
Much more to come on the State Quarter Program.
Yeah. Anyway, I've been obsessed with the US State Quarter Program since I first heard about it six years ago. Well, not obsessed with, but very compelled by. I think that it's such a cool idea. I don't collect them, but I always check to see what I have jangling around in my pocket (mind out of gutter, please). I wrote a lengthy ode to the Connecticut quarter in an email a few years ago, and I'm afraid that I can't recapture the eloquence that I expressed in my homage. It is a great lookin' coin, with the tree and all, but, when you read the story of the Charter Oak, it's even better. It should be worth 27 cents at least.
Indiana's quarter, meanwhile, is pretty damn shitty. Sorry, Hoosiers, but sticking an Indy car in front of the EU symbol (or what looks like it) doesn't cut it. They could have commemorated the Little 500 or Rudy or the Jacksons, even though they're not dead.
I remember The Onion had a story about speculation that the South Dakota quarter might, just might, have a picture of Mount Rushmore on it. I searched for the story online but this is much better. Check out the size of that fucking bird, and it's primed to crap right on Thomas Jefferson!
The other major development is the Kansas quarter. I thought that a big tornado would have been cool (maybe Oklahoma will do that), but they went with a bison. Now there's at least four states that will be pissed off by this (even South Dakota had a buffalo on its short list of candidates). The Kansas quarter looks great except for two things:
1. It looks like a buffalo nickel. This could mean major holdups at vending machines nationwide.
2. What the hell is with that pansy-ass sunflower?? Can they make it so that the buffalo is eating the sunflower?
Much more to come on the State Quarter Program.
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