Comments on: Last week, in brief?

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:26:28 +0000

yeah
thankfully for you i fill a whole hand
and so the others had no real job? (teaching is not real?) which means they should’ve had more time to visit me

By: Chennette

Chennette — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:26:33 +0000

I visited twice. And helped clean old apartment and move and shop for big heavy stuff for new apartment. I was the only sibling with a real job at the time if you recall.

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:56:03 +0000

Yeah but I’m living here/T&T *now*
So, I would only live where it’s convenient for people to visit me.
I can count on one hand how many times my family came to visit me.

By: Thomasso

Thomasso — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:54:28 +0000

Chennette, You’re funny!

Lily, weren’t you living a million away from home at one time–and would do it again?

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:11:08 +0000

Oh Canada!
You leaving me now? Again? Can’t deal with all this distance!

By: Chennette

Chennette — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:58:03 +0000

I remember when I went up to Toronto for the semester in 1996, that was just about when the Two Dollar coin was introduced, so everyone everywhere was at great pains to explain to newcomers about the Loonie and the new Toonie so called because they ended up calling the one dollar the Loonie. The loonie, despite the craziness was a cool name I thought, because it was linked to the loon on the coin. The Toonie was just pushing it :-D

As for Foonie and Finnie…well, maybe I should just move to Canada. It sounds like fun.

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:21:32 +0000

aw geez. i just checked.
it’s not links per se, it’s WIKIPEDIA links
will this go through??

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:11:02 +0000

so weird
let me go check my settings!

Akismet took them! i approved them.
But I checked my settings, it’s supposed to allow stuff with less than 3 links (or 3 or less…something so). I’m not sure why it didn’t allow yours..
Hmm
Is Loonie a bad word?

By: Thomasso

Thomasso — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:57 +0000

I tried to send anther comment with a link–it automatically denied me the post. Look up Canada Dollar on the Wikipeada Website. for details.

By: Thomasso

Thomasso — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:08:06 +0000

Your currency looks like a hybrid between Canada and the US paper bills. Cool

Here is that link on Canadian money I was trying to send you this morning.

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

It sort of talks about the Loonie and Toonie also.

Actually, are bills are just a little smaller than the US mints. The only dollar bill that is shorter than the others is the Five dollar bill, but that is partly because it is the last bill to be replaced by the old currency–remember that they are think on fazing it out–and we are talking a couple of millimetres. Only the coins are a nuisance. :) When you get change beck from your purchase, you get change!

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:32:37 +0000

*scratches* head
i didn’t get it to moderate
finnie makes more sense
a foonie sounds more like a four dollar bill

we have coloured money too
http://www.atsnotes.com/catalog/trinidad/trinidad.html

but not different sizes
different sizes is really weird…how do u fit it nicely in your wallet…but is it good for the blind?

By: Thomasso

Thomasso — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:28:07 +0000

Awh, I thought my post went though this morning….. I had a really witty comment for Chennette, but I had some links in it that might no have gotten through. Oh well….

A lot of people that visit Canada think our money looks like “play money” because of the colours and designs on each bill. Canada is really paranoid about counterfeit bank notes, plus we have some of the harshest punishments for those who print their own fake money.

Personally, I think the Five Dollar coin might be called a “finnie”?????

By: Thomasso

Thomasso — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:22:11 +0000

Chennette,

The Royal Canadian Mint was unbelievably upset that Canadians took on the name. It was more or less a protested to the change over from paper money to coins. There is great resistance to a five dollar coin, and the Mint has not officially decided on that, yet, but yes, I like Foonie, unless they put something totally ridiculous on it like a Horse Fly or The Alberta Tar Sands…..

If you were wondering why the one dollar coin is called a loonie, it is because it has a pint of a Loon on one side, and the name suggests someone who is crazy.

This Link should explain it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar

By: trinimom

trinimom — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:02:59 +0000

Four farthings were a penny…..so one cent was two farthings …. this is what I remember .. those were the days when salt was one cent per pound and sugar was 4 cents and flour was 9 cents etc…..and a bellyfull cake ( like a bread pudding but harder as they used all the leftover cakes and bread to make these) was one cent……
And yes a pennacool was a penny at its inception… the first people to make pennacool was at a house opposite the Nur-e-Islam Masjid on the corner of Ward Lane and El Socorro Road……three houses away from the milk ice-block people.

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:49:45 +0000

five dollar would be foonie?

By: Chennette

Chennette — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:47:58 +0000

Thomasso – I thought the Toonie was the funniest term imaginable, but if the Canadians decide on a Foonie, I will change my views :-D

By: Chennette

Chennette — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:46:56 +0000

quarter maybe, but don’t think we use nickel and dime…
the confusion is precisely because the changeover from old british money system to the TT dollar – probably had both currencies running for a while. Even the Brits had issues when they changed their system…

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:41:23 +0000

hehe
penny cakes! for a penny less than a dollar! :)

well…we had the british currency up to x-year until we changed to TT-currency…and … things still got called by their old names
a one cent was…a penny? or according to mom something else
a 25cent piece was called a shilling still
because old habits die hard
and even when i was in school tho i never saw this old currency in use, classmates would still call a 25 cent a shilling
i guess we learned it
our literature still had it
etc etc
which is why i wonder about the younger generation
do they use these north american terms of nickel and dime and quarter…eek

By: Thomasso

Thomasso — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:36:38 +0000

Interesting, we never had a “shilling,” up here, just the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, Loonie (dollar) and Toonie, the two dollar Coin. There’s even talk of a Five dollar coin coming soon….

I saw an ad for penny-cakes a while back that were advertised for $0.99 cents each. I thought that was funny.

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:09:19 +0000

i wonder how much it is now
mom said they used to buy like milk-icecream in blocks…like the milk penny cool for a penny when she was a child
and the plain ones (ice…like the ordinary ones i guess) for a cent

so silly me asked what’s the difference

mom: one is a penny and one is a cent

argh
penny = two cents
hmmm
i now understand my complete confusion as a child about penny, pence, tuppence etc
very bizarre considering…we never had these in our lifetime

and shilling…do you think any child uses shilling these days?