Hmmm. Made me think of moloko bars from "A Clockwork Orange", but then that's a whole 'nother smoke. :-)

Is there a lollie born every minute?

milkbars = milk bars?
 

Didn't they have milk bars in "A Clockwork Orange"? Where they actually drank milk at a bar?

The image I remember was edgy and industrial, places where punks would go to get...milk, for whatever reason.

OK it was the deep future and everything was f*cked up accordingly, ala "Brazil" or "Airplane".

Anchorage man cashes in $7,920 worth of pennies

An Anchorage man yesterday [August 3, 2001] finished cashing in more than 792-thousand pennies. With help from a coin-processing company, 57 year old Sylvester Neal processed 288-thousand-141 pennies at a coin-counting machine in a local supermarket. Representatives of CoinStar hired an armored car to help Neal transport his heavy load. It took him until seven-45 in the evening to finish his task.

CoinStar says it's the most pennies ever processed by its machines by one person, more than doubling a record set in January by someone in Baltimore.

Neal decided to cash in most of his collection after making plans to move from Anchorage to Auburn, Washington. He previously had cashed in five-thousand dollars worth of pennies. He says the five-ton collection was too expensive to move. Neal is a retired state fire marshal. He's keeping about 200-thousand pre-1974 pennies.

Dude that's seriously messed up. What other Australian slang is there?

suckers?
what da?

jag.

lollipops.

those little balls of hard candy at the end of a rolled-up paper stick, most often white. they come in all sorts of colors and flavors. lollipops.

WORD. :)

oh man that's funny. :]

yea i know what they are
i've just never heard them called suckers by anyone australian before.

Nic Name, you posted that article about CoinStar and that man w/all the coins.

I recently heard an interesting fact on NPR the other day. The US mint had to lay off 357 employees as a result of CoinStar machines.

Reason being, the change is meant to be lost, thrown away, saved in jars stashed in the seat cushions never to be seen again, etc. We (U.S.) were producing X amount of coins every year to compensate for the coins that went out of circulation.

The CoinStar machines have changed that, though. People actually 'hoard' change now just to toss it into a jar to take to CoinStar eventually.

"This year alone we’ll put through 1.3 or 1.4 billion dollars back into the economy."--Dianne Renihan is the CFO.

That's a LOT of coinage going back into circulation and a LOT of jobs being lost because of it.

I found the whole story quite interesting.

edit: screw it, link's gone...go to google like Nic said. :)

Hey stunt ... try another edit and erase the bad link.

the story can be seen in every paper by searching google using search terms coinstar mint layoffs, so a direct link to support your story is not absolutely necessary here. :)

OK lemme see if I got this straight:
 

So our government pays itself to make money?

That's it, I'm opening a new country right now.

Can't drop a dime anymore
 

Hear this one yesterday

In Europe you can't loose a penny anymore, now you Euronate

Pissing away a fortune in the common market will be euronation.

http://www.oldwivestales.net/oldwive...ec032i_thm.jpg

It's an old wives tale that if you have itchy palms you're coming into money ...
or is it you're gonna hafta pay out some money ... or are you just allergic to the euro?