Q for the Canadians

[Death Dragon2]

9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
Is this true?

[garfalk]

other than the fact that they stopped circulating in 1996, and that year had a robin on that back, i have no clue.

[Wayne]

The pictures that I can find are too small to tell on a computer screen and I don't have one to look at live.

[Big Otis Landfish]

Sounds like BS. I have some $2 bills stashed in BC, I think... but nothing here.

Snopes FTW, as usual...
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp


The 1954 appearance of the Devil in the Queen's hair was real, though:
http://webhome.idirect.com/~mjp/images/1954_dm.jpg
(left shows Devil's Head bill... right shows modified 1956 version)

[Wayne]

I had always enjoyed making fun of Canadian money back in my youth but now the US Mint has done enough strange stuff that I can make fun of my own money now.

[Farler]

That reminds me of a story that I read in the winnipeg free press, can't find the original version I read but this gives the same story http://www.thestar.com/News/article/211189



(what they're not telling you is that canadians actually have created nano technology to spy on americans with, but no one would ever guess that the eye on the loonie is a micro camera and that the polar bear's ears are listening devices)

[Big Otis Landfish]

Oh yeah... the poppy-camera!

:rofl:

[RazorJAK]

Our "military intelligence" at work.

[Death Dragon2]

Paranoid Americans used to look for Soviet Communists under their beds. Who'd have thought Canadians would top that by looking for American flags over their Parliament?
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5553/hysterical2kb.gif