'Poppy Quarter' Behind Spy Coin Alert

[wakeme2008]

Source: AP

May 7, 2007
'Poppy Quarter' Behind Spy Coin Alert
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:59 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The surprise explanation behind the U.S. government's sensational but false warnings about mysterious Canadian spy coins is the harmless ''poppy quarter,'' the world's first colorized coin, The Associated Press has learned.

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The silver-colored 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy -- Canada's flower of remembrance -- inlaid over a maple leaf. The unorthodox quarter is identical to the coins pictured and described as suspicious in the contractors' accounts.

The supposed nano-technology actually was a conventional protective coating the Royal Canadian Mint applied to prevent the poppy's red color from rubbing off. The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada's 117,000 war dead.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spy-Coins.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Heidi]

1. From the article: ''The information wasn't properly vetted."

That sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?

[Benhurst]

10. picture ...

[mcscajun]

11. LOL! Yeah, if I'm going to Bug somebody, I'll do it with something

that's a) SO Freaking conspicuous as to invite close scrutiny, and b) so likely to be given to someone else in the first 24 hours as to render it fuckin' useless.

And these "coin recipients" are some of the people we're "trusting" to keep us "safe"? The Universe protect us!
:banghead:

[jakem]

2. Oh no... look out he has a Canadian nickle!

alert freaking security.

[benh57]

3. The coin

http://images.google.com/images?q=poppy%20quarter

[baldguy]

8. Available only at Tim Horton's?

Imagine what Starbucks could do with our coinage!

[Tuttle]

4. Good Lord! I thought it was Poppy Bush!

after all, he was a spy...

Tut-tut

[kedrys]

5. Wonder what the U.S. gummint thinks of

the holographic coins, then. Those must be extra-evil. :sarcasm:

http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002248.html

Read the whole thing, it's pretty hilarious.

[Xipe Totec]

6. nano-brains at work nt

[slampoet]

7. This is what you get when you hire people who've NEVER left the country

The FBI and CIA gives them hiring preference.

[formercia]

9. I knew Poppy was behind this.

:evilgrin:

[happyslug]

12. From a WWI poem about dead Soldiers...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields

Any you wonder why Bush and Company HATES this coin???

[happyslug]

13. Another Cite for why Poppies.

http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-poppies.html