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derby378

(30,252 posts)
55. Great find!
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 01:57 PM
Jan 2013

Of course, the GOP will complain that "In God We Trust" is missing from the design, but still, there's that shiny Pentagon.

I don't care what it looks like aintitfunny Jan 2013 #1
I like the 13 sides Hatchling Jan 2013 #2
Orange? How come? (n/t) derby378 Jan 2013 #4
No doubt for The Orange Man, Boehner nt Hekate Jan 2013 #46
I thought the suggestion theKed Jan 2013 #3
If Reagan's on the obverse, the reverse should incorporate this image: pinboy3niner Jan 2013 #16
I think I'd go with "In Via Muri Credimus" muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #27
Confidimus!! It's evocative of the "con" game those bums played on us! nt MADem Jan 2013 #53
Thank you. KamaAina Jan 2013 #31
'he built it' actually yellow might be better. pansypoo53219 Jan 2013 #54
Someone on the radio suggested this guy: rucky Jan 2013 #5
Not bad derby378 Jan 2013 #6
a pyramid, of course! rucky Jan 2013 #7
Bernie Madoff? GObamaGO Jan 2013 #42
For who to put on it: Reagan or Boehner JHB Jan 2013 #8
How about Boehner fellating Reagan? geardaddy Jan 2013 #60
Here ya go hootinholler Jan 2013 #9
Oooooh, a TOXIC metal! derby378 Jan 2013 #10
I was thinking uranium hootinholler Jan 2013 #12
How about all that depleted uranium we have lying around Iraq, going to waste? dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #41
Dubya kissing a sheikh with Cheney's quote: Reagan proved that deficits don't matter Fumesucker Jan 2013 #11
A single $1 trillion coin is such shortsighted and timid thinking... cherokeeprogressive Jan 2013 #13
CZ would be a neat trick derby378 Jan 2013 #15
Maybe they can just fake it. cherokeeprogressive Jan 2013 #17
The problem is the actual logisitcs of what would be done with the coin. RomneyLies Jan 2013 #34
Bush on the front, IN WALL STREET WE TRUST on the back. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #14
Federal law limits whose face can be on a coin to only people who are deceased. RomneyLies Jan 2013 #35
I was thinking since we're going to use a wacky scheme and accounting gimmicks to hughee99 Jan 2013 #18
See above, no living people can be on a coin under the law. RomneyLies Jan 2013 #36
Do you know something about Ken Lay most people don't? hughee99 Jan 2013 #38
D'oh! RomneyLies Jan 2013 #39
I'd make it about the size of a manhole cover Silent3 Jan 2013 #19
I'd like to see the goods such a vending machine would dispense derby378 Jan 2013 #22
I think the coin should be more 3-D and they should mint one for every state...share the $1T Sheepshank Jan 2013 #20
How about this fellow? theKed Jan 2013 #21
A good man - and a civil rights pioneer worth remembering derby378 Jan 2013 #23
Not only civil rights theKed Jan 2013 #33
I think it should be triangular, but with this design on one side muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #24
I'd like to see Mr. Burns on it. what's "release the hounds" in Latin? PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #25
Expedio a canibus? derby378 Jan 2013 #26
'Canes expedite' (or 'canes expedi'), perhaps? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #28
Probably not jmowreader Jan 2013 #30
"If it's a crime to love one's country then I'm guilty." Initech Jan 2013 #44
"Does anyone have change for a button?" PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #48
"Back in my day nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them!" Initech Jan 2013 #57
"So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time." PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #61
Make it a foot in diameter and an inch thick jmowreader Jan 2013 #29
... derby378 Jan 2013 #32
It's illegal to put the face of a living person on a coin n/t RomneyLies Jan 2013 #37
It's also illegal to allow the government to go into default because you don't like spending jmowreader Jan 2013 #63
Actually, that's legal RomneyLies Jan 2013 #65
The 14th Amendment says it isn't jmowreader Jan 2013 #66
No, it doesn't RomneyLies Jan 2013 #67
Why the Nazi measurements? Kaleva Jan 2013 #40
WHAT Nazi measurements? derby378 Jan 2013 #43
millimeters. Nazi measurements Kaleva Jan 2013 #45
HUH???? hobbit709 Jan 2013 #49
It's a joke from a comedy skit. The metric system is Nazi and thus Un-American. Kaleva Jan 2013 #59
Blame the French derby378 Jan 2013 #50
It's more sinister sounding if one says the metric system is Nazi! Kaleva Jan 2013 #58
It's gotta be Dubya! Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #47
Ronald Reagan on the coin--no contest. MADem Jan 2013 #51
Great find! derby378 Jan 2013 #55
They could inscribe "War Without End, Amen" on it--that sounds vaguely holy! nt MADem Jan 2013 #56
To stick it to our friends in the Tea Party DefenseLawyer Jan 2013 #52
I think it should be made out of lead, and be 14 feet in diameter, and 3 feet thick... SidDithers Jan 2013 #62
The "coin" could be minted in any metal, actually, Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #64
Reagan on one side and a giant middle finger on the back. Initech Jan 2013 #68
Put Ronald Reagan's Face On It AnnieBW Jan 2013 #69
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