Bank of Canada urges ‘Star Trek’ fans to stop ‘Spocking’ their fivers

[Cebu_4_2]

Bank of Canada urges ‘Star Trek’ fans to stop ‘Spocking’ their fivers
03.03.2015
04:31 pm

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Bank of Canada is pleading with Star Trek fans to stop “Spocking” its five dollar bills. Since Leonard Nimoy’s death, Canadian folks have been “Spocking” the hell out of the five dollar bill that features a portrait of Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

Sir Wilfrid now sports, on certain bills at least, pointy ears, the signature Vulcan haircut and eyebrows and Spock’s mantra “Live long and prosper.”

According to Bank of Canada it’s not illegal to do this but:

“...However, there are important reasons why it should not be done. Writing on a bank note may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan. Markings on a note may also prevent it from being accepted in a transaction. Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride.”


I say Spock the hell out of ‘em if it ain’t illegal. Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s face wasn’t that interesting, anyway. In fact, let’s just make this a permanent improvement to the Canadian five dollar bill.

How did I not know about this? #SpockingFives (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpockingFives?src=hash) http://t.co/a6cNVr85SK pic.twitter.com/CHhvRUeip8 (http://t.co/CHhvRUeip8)
— Tara Ciprick (@BringingOrder) February 28, 2015 (https://twitter.com/BringingOrder/status/571809128080916480)



SO #SpockingFives (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpockingFives?src=hash) in #Canada (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canada?src=hash) IS NOT illegal! #LiveLongAndProsper (https://twitter.com/hashtag/LiveLongAndProsper?src=hash) #Canadians (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canadians?src=hash)! pic.twitter.com/PrL6G2vbFf (http://t.co/PrL6G2vbFf)
— Ryan Siskow (@ryansiskow) March 2, 2015 (https://twitter.com/ryansiskow/status/572541176391344129)



#SpockingFives (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpockingFives?src=hash) Way to go, Canada pic.twitter.com/NAbAm8bFVt (http://t.co/NAbAm8bFVt)
— Zach Webb (@zach_webb) March 3, 2015 (https://twitter.com/zach_webb/status/572573566740246529)


Keep on “Spocking.”
via Toronto Sun (http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/03/star-trek-fans-told-to-stop-spocking-5-bill)

[BrewTech]

Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride.

LOL... whatever dude...*



*and I'm not even Canadian!

[Uncle Salty]

Nobody has national pride regarding the Federal Reserve Banking system of Canada.

[Shami-Amourae]

Someone has never heard of the Streisand Effect.
:rolleyes:

[Cebu_4_2]

Someone has never heard of the Streisand Effect.
:rolleyes:

WTF is that?

[Shami-Amourae]

WTF is that?

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Streisand_effect

The Streisand Effect is a term used to describe a commonly seen occurrence on the internet (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Internet) when somebody attempts to censor (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Censor) or remove some kind of information, documentation or photograph but somehow manages to forget that magic 'save as...' function that 99.9% of computers have. The censor ultimately ends up creating more buzz via censoring the file / image / document than if they simply just settled the fuck down and realized that nobody actually cared about them in the first place (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Nobody_cares).


Oh shit Barbra...

https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se/thumb/3/36/Streisand-malibu-house.jpg/250px-Streisand-malibu-house.jpg (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/File:Streisand-malibu-house.jpg) https://static.encyclopediadramatica.se/common/images/magnify-clip.png (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/File:Streisand-malibu-house.jpg)
Oh hi Babs NICE MANSION


The Streisand Effect was coined after Barbra Streisand (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Jew), who in 2003 sued a photographer for posting a picture of her home on the interwebs (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Google). Of course, nobody has ever given a fuck about Barbra other than her core demographic (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Jews) and faggots (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Tfo) looking to whore (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Whore) her "music (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Shit)" to the masses, but after the news broke out that she was suing the photographer, the site's hits started coming in and more people eventually saw the photo than if Babs had just stfu (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Stfu) in the first place. The irony is that the photographer was actually taking photos for an article on coastal erosion (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Environmentalism), causing Barbra to look like an even bigger fool.

[Cebu_4_2]

I read this a bunch of times, just cant remember it.

[Glass]

its a shame they had to name it after her. perhaps she was the first?