OK yet again the US is changing their money. They just did this like 4 years ago. And those bills were already supposed to be so ultra counterfeit-proof. And they are already making another one. My God!

http://money.netscape.cnn.com/default.jsp

Pretty cool though! Check out the "Explore the interactive bill"

good to see you guys are finally coloring your money so you dont give a $100 when you think its a $10 and someone else gets $90 in extra cash [img]tongue.gif[/img]

that'd suck :(

Don't you mean, check out the "here's our secrets,try and replicate them link"?

Ive seen some of the dumb commercials for the bill too.

"Only the US government would spend 30 million dollars to introduce 20 bucks"

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GO AMERICANS!

hey now they expedited that 30 million out of the mouths of the poor, and from the education system fair and square they can piss it away however they want to damnit they are AMERICANS!

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^ psst - anyone here know what the Toonie cost to develop and produce? :rolleyes:

but did the government spend 30 million on marketing it?

Thats kinda Ironic, spending money to advertise money, since on most cases you advertise to sell something. ha [img]smile.gif[/img]

I don't see how it could cost so freakin' much just to market the bill but I haven't heard what it cost so it is possible.

when ya gotta inform milllions of people, it costs a lot.

See now my Canadian brethren what you seem to forget occasionally is that Americans actually CAN influence their government and they know it.

When the US tried to do away with their $1 bill for the Susan B Anthony coin (and yeah that was way before the Loony) they tried to just force it on the public but the majority of the US population said, "F**k that, shove your coin up your ass" and nobody would use it. Now there is a pretty healthy stash of $1 coins sitting around in a vault that nobody will use.

Up here we all bitched and moaned about the Loony when it came out but then all shrugged our shoulders and just decided to deal with it. We try to fool ourselves by talking about the practicality and longevity of coin vs. paper bills but in reality the gov't shoved it down our throats and because we were all such good boys and girls we got a second helping with the $2 bill replacement too..

SO - in the US first the gov't has to give everyone a nice big propoganda campaign until everyone is happy with every little change they want to do.

$30 million = the amount of circulated 2 dollar bills that needed to be collected to throw into the burner at the time of two-nie introduction. :D