The Bush Half Penny

October 13, 2005 2:04 AM

Coin Collectors Divided over New Bush Half Penny: "Each half cent will cost about 0.81 cent to mint, creating an unnecessary deficit every year," detractors complain.
posted by three blind mice (22 comments total)

be aware that, after you're on this page for about 30 seconds, a voice will come out of your speakers saying "happy halloween"....
posted by HuronBob at 2:11 AM on October 13, 2005

I suspected that as being a parody. Good on yer.
posted by deusdiabolus at 2:14 AM on October 13, 2005

The funniest bit, like most modern films, was quoted in the preview.
*sigh*
posted by NinjaPirate at 2:18 AM on October 13, 2005

best of the web. right. can i get a 'lame' flag up in here, please?
posted by spiderwire at 2:35 AM on October 13, 2005

Hmmm...was the puckered anus really necessary?
posted by Deathalicious at 3:07 AM on October 13, 2005

Half assed?
posted by furtive at 3:31 AM on October 13, 2005

not funny
posted by angry modem at 3:32 AM on October 13, 2005

and the happy halloween crap is only if you float over the stupid banner on the right.
posted by angry modem at 3:58 AM on October 13, 2005

I did enjoy the kick-me Democrat on the reverse.
posted by jfuller at 4:15 AM on October 13, 2005

Deathalicious: No, because it's been done before. (NSFW, assholes.)

(No, I didn't just call you all assholes.)
posted by emelenjr at 4:54 AM on October 13, 2005

i join the chorus of meh.
posted by moonbird at 4:55 AM on October 13, 2005

I'm going to get some Halloween smileys to scare my friends! Hope Grampa's heart condition can take it. Those things are spooky!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 5:04 AM on October 13, 2005

heheheee. I want them to give out to my friends for Hallowe'en.
posted by By The Grace of God at 5:51 AM on October 13, 2005

Utterly mediocre and obvious. Weak Onion-wannabe pieces are hardly worthy of Metafilter.
posted by MaxVonCretin at 7:09 AM on October 13, 2005

aw, pipe down Cretin.

Where can I get these? They aren't for sale through the Mint's catalog.
posted by ewkpates at 7:35 AM on October 13, 2005

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posted by Mr T at 9:40 AM on October 13, 2005

Moonbird, I am happy to have "chorus of meh" in my lexicon. Knights who say "Meh." "Meh. Heh." "Meh"tafilter.
posted by theora55 at 9:51 AM on October 13, 2005

MetaFilter: was the puckered anus really necessary?
posted by kirkaracha at 10:41 AM on October 13, 2005

Penny for his thoughts. Ohh.
posted by pointilist at 11:13 AM on October 13, 2005

You can save yourself a lot of annoyance by installing the flashblock extension to Firefox, which disables all flash by default. All you do if you want to see a particular flash element is click on it. This kills basically 95% of my popup windows and a lot of annoying animated and audio-laced advertisements.
posted by knave at 12:48 PM on October 13, 2005

pointilist: half-penny. snap!
posted by spiderwire at 2:27 PM on October 13, 2005

I wish we wouldn't link to parodies on the front page. It's not that I'm gullible, but after the Reagan Dime scare, things like this seem possible.
posted by hoborg at 7:03 PM on October 13, 2005