When the hell did they change the nickel???

[phillybri]

All of a sudden I've got a nickel w/ a handshake on the back.

What the dillyo?

[elfwitch]

1. not really?

picture please!

[Reverend_Smitty]

I think...

it has something to do with the Louisiana Purchase...not really sure when they changed them, or if its a permanent thing

[bif]

3. They're planning on doing 4 or 5 different ones

celebratting the westward conquest.

[sniffa]

2. back in my day

they're used to be pictures of bees on em. 'give me 5 bees for a quarter' is what we'd say. now where was i? oh yeah, so i was taking the ferry, which cost a nickLe, and i had onion tied to my beLt Loop - which was the styLe at the time - and..

[soothsayer]

7. grandpa simpson!

I love that quote. (the onion on my belt part)

[ironflange]

15. We didn't have the white ones, because of the war,

all we could get were those big yellow ones.

(or something like that)

[Ready4Change]

4. It was recently changed.

It's kind of like what's being done with the quarter. See here:

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=nickel_series

[demnan]

5. Here:

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=nickel_series

[DustMolecule]

6. I was wondering about it myself

glad you brought it up! Did you notice that it 'feels different'...it's lighter or something.

[Bertha Venation]

8. Yes! Let's mint a coin representing the prelude to the

destruction of the native American and his land!

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. and HER land, too!

Let us not be sexist here, Bertha :-)

[Bertha Venation]

12. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb, Rabrrrrr?

That's not funny.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Ach, you missed an "r" at the end!

And I don't find sexism funny, no.

:P

(the smilie is directed toward your joke, not an anti-agreeing commentary to my anti-sexist remark)

[Bertha Venation]

17. I'm not sexist, sweetie.

I used the generic male when referring to the native American. I honestly didn't think it would raise any hackles. I intended absolutely no offense.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. *I* know you're not sexist,

I was just ribbing you.

Sorry if you didn't get it. One of the problems of text messaging, yes?

But I now full well you aren't sexist, so I felt free to tease you about it. :-)

[Bertha Venation]

22. tease away, sweetie

it was a freaking rough day, and a freaking rough week is almost over.

time for bed -- I'm falling asleep. 'night, all.

[Insider]

9. way to thwart the terrorists

in this war, some things you'll see, and some things you won't.

[Zomby Woof]

11. This was announced 2 years ago

I still haven't seen one yet but knew they were due this year for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial as well as the Louisiana Purchase. Since Jefferson commissioned the Lewis & Clark expedition, this isn't much of a stretch.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. I wonder if it's pissing off the freeper and other stupid filth

since it shows an American hand shaking hands with a, what do they call them?, cheese eating surrender monkey.

Or perhaps they glory in the fact that Fraqnce was dumb enough to hand off so much land?

Who knows what lurks in the minds of freepers, given their proclivity to ignroance, stupidity, and utter contempt for all things rational, decent, and sensible.

And any of your freeper lurkers here - I don't care if you think that's offensive, I *DO* hope you quote me, and I hope you and your ilk become apoplexic reading it.

[Zomby Woof]

16. LOL

Napoleon needed the fast cash so he could keep fighting the English bed-wetting pig-dogs!

[UTUSN]

19. The VFW Magazine Changed It in Last Month's Issue

http://www.nationaltvbargains.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID...





*******QUOTE*******

.... The Outcome ... Decisive American VICTORY ! To commemorate this World Changing event, The New England Mint is Proud to Announce The Striking of The PURE SILVER Clad United States Victory Commemorative. ....

********UNQUOTE*******

[stevedeshazer]

20. Got the one on the left the other day

I did a double-take, too.

[scottcsmith]

21. Instead of a hand shake...

...it should be a hand pulling the arm of a slot machine. That would make a good nickel.