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Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices
Necrotica writes "An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department's false espionage warning earlier this year.
The odd-looking — but harmless — "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP."
Just wow.
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... they still don't work in American vending machines or toll booths ... and thats what really matters, isn't it?
I'd rather have these folks a little paranoid because you never know when a suspicious looking item really is being used for espionage.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
"An odd-looking American coin with a bird which can be described as an Eagle raises suspiscion among Canadian Citizens as an artifact for espionage. The odd-looking - but harmless - "eagle coin" is unfamiliar to suspicious Canadian Police Enforcement and forced them to submit private reports about the eagles "devil eyes" which can only mean they contain tracking devices to take over canada." can anyone else say omfg paranoia ?
...and that's what really matters, eh?
Little do they know that it's the two dollar coin that is the surveillance device. It's obvious if you think about it - the dissimilar metals in the coin form a galvanic cell to power the transmitter. Furthermore - oh, wait a sec, I think I see a CSIS truck in my driveway...
that Canadians put red flowers on their coins, and Americans don't?
The Nigerian yellowcake was actually just... yellow cake. Angel food cake, to be exact.
I guess this means we shouldn't have preemptively invaded Canada. [shrug] Oh well. We can't leave now, or there'll be a bloody civil war between Quebec and everyone else up there. Besides which, this is our best chance to spread democracy and freedom in North America.
1. Celine Dion
2. Jim Carrey
3. nano-tech coins...
4. ????
5. Profit? ...No my friend. WORLD DOMINATION! MWahahahah!!
Good, good. Could you please turn your Canadian one-dollar coin (the one we call a 'loonie') to face your television set? I can't get "American Idol" where I live.
"Apparatus dignosco occultus, satis non supernus."
Assemble a breast cancer ribbon, AIDs pin, a Remembrance day poppy, Canada pin, and a Nano-tech coin, it forms a miniature thermonuclear device of ultimate destruction.
It's simple to identify the spying coins.
they have a blinking red LED on them and a pop out scanning radar dish.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
...now I need a picture of a kitten and a coin...
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The biggest conspiracy theorists are the spies. They actually make a decent living hatching ridiculous conspiracy theories (oooh, the Canadian Mint is run by aliens using their advanced nanotech to prepare for invasion). That way their masters get to spy on pinko commie agitators everywhere, like environmentalists and democracy advocates (ooh look, the Raging Grannies are inciting insurrection, let's tap their phones, send in the moles).
Damn those pesky terrorists
.. then it must be... OMFG!!! I just inhaled 50 thousand nano-terrorists! MY EYES!! MY EYES!!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Tim Horton's is not crack-in-a-cup. I can stop drinking it any time I want to. I could even stop right now, as soon as I finish this large double double*.
* - note: authentic Canadian cultural reference, double double means double cream double sugar, the way it was meant to be drank, by the Lord God Thunderin' Jaysus!
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
Reminds me of a prank some students made. They bought a park bench and a group of students carried it with them the city. Police of course stopped them and asked them to return it to where they took it, but they showed the proof that they owned the bench and can carry it anywhere they please. So police let them and broadcast to other patrols that the students carrying a bench own it.
So the city got filled with groups of students carrying benches until all bench were carried away.
Of course the bench were returned afterwards.
Although very memorable, this prank was not highly praised due to involving police with whom the students have respect.
How this relates or does not relate to Canadian coins I leave to the reader.
I'm not supposed to tell you this, but the poppy coins were just a decoy. The real tracking devices are embedded in these:
K N0328796820070503
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idU
We're still working on the miniaturization issue.
And for our next trick, Canada is going implement yet another mindboggling technology that makes our currency frightening for Americans ... our currency will actually hold its value against other major world currencies and not be driven down the toilet by mountains of debt held by China.
Yes, we were still a colony at that time, however as at least two of those colonies were known as 'Upper and Lower Canada', I'm comfortable calling the inhabitants at that time 'Canadians'. I'm guessing that if we'd HAD any ice skates back then, we'd have permanently occupied the United States and imposed mandatory toque-wearing as well as replacing your national symbol with the Beaver. I mean, c'mon. We all know up here that America's dislike of us is solely based on its jealousy of our national mascot.
"Apparatus dignosco occultus, satis non supernus."
Stupid Flanders.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Considering that the US was a participant in that war, I'd say you just proved the point about people from the US not knowing their history
Bravo! I like the way you carefully extracted part of my sentence so as to completely change the meaning of the sentence, and provide yourself with a mild ego-boo for "proving" me wrong....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"