Comments on: Coins Designed by Q?

By: fishbane

fishbane — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:24:17 +0000

The really amusing part is to consider that paranoias frequently reflect guilty minds. How many variants of these have our intel groups passed around?

By: Fub

Fub — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:27:25 +0000

From TFA:

The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada’s 117,000 war dead.

That’s about $64.10 Canadian per fallen soldier, or 641 Canadian dimes.

This year is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the pivotal battle which sealed Britain’s possession of Canada. That’s 25 decades.

25 + 641 = 666

Skeptics will say that is just coincidence.

By: Dan Weber

Dan Weber — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:18:53 +0000

This was a plot point on “The Agency,” IIRC, a drama about the CIA. Episode aired around 2002 or so. Protagonists are undercover in a foreign country and have swept everything they got for bugs, except the pocket change.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:42:10 +0000

Mark Buehner: Reminds of the movie Canadian Bacon with John Candy. The government convinces America that Canada is out to get them, and suddenly all the Canadian friendliness is taken as sinister.I also recall Canada’s entire electricity grid being monitored by an elderly couple knitting and drinking tea.

"You sold control of American missiles to a foreign country?" "If you can call Canada 'foreign'." "Or 'a country'." Also, I've heard they've massed 90% of their population along the border in preparation for an invasion.

By: Vinny B.

Vinny B. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Sounds like a bunch of loonies are needlessly concerned about loonies.

By: Mark Buehner

Mark Buehner — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:55:24 +0000

Reminds of the movie Canadian Bacon with John Candy. The government convinces America that Canada is out to get them, and suddenly all the Canadian friendliness is taken as sinister. I also recall Canada’s entire electricity grid being monitored by an elderly couple knitting and drinking tea.

By: Ilec

Ilec — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:24:28 +0000

I recall the hilarity that this story caused in Canada when these concerns about Canadian “spy” coins first popped up a couple of years ago. To read the level of concern that this apparently raised in high levels of the U.S. intelligence establishment just gives me another chuckle.

By: geokstr

geokstr — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:43:10 +0000

Probably unlikely. It’s been rumored from multiple reliable sources that Star Trek-The Next Generation might only have been fiction.