{"id":9810,"date":"2013-02-04T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=9810"},"modified":"2013-02-12T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:00:20","slug":"goodbye-canadian-penny-but-it-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2013\/02\/04\/goodbye-canadian-penny-but-it-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Canadian Penny. But it makes sense …?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Monday, February 4th, 2013 sees the historic end to the Canadian Penny.<\/p>\n

Google is honouring Canadian Penny with a nice animated GIF Google Doodle:<\/p>\n

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“Last Day of the Canadian Penny” Google Doodle animated GIF, Feb. 4th, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

Doug Peterson<\/a>‘s blog post for today, “Penny Wise”<\/a> alerted me to the connection to the Penny’s end this morning. Doug included a link to a 10-question trivia quiz<\/a> about the Canadian Penny. I scored 6\/10.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard that retailers will still use prices marked to the nearest cent — I guess $3.99 is still better than $3.95 when it comes time to tabulate the bottom line at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

The CBC website will tell you All You need to know about the Canadian Penny’s Withdrawl<\/a><\/p>\n

I guess it makes sense to stop making pennies, given that they cost more to make than their actual face value.<\/p>\n

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“Rummoli board,” from Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

But I wonder, what will folks use for counters when playing Rummoli<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n

We always grabbed the penny jar for that when we were kids. Will we now start a nickel jar? Granted, we don’t play as much Rummoli as we used to. (And never, in my life, have I encountered a Crokinole<\/a> board with Rummoli on the reverse. That they might still exist is nice to know.) But my sons were introduced to the game a couple years ago with a new purchase of the plastic mat version of the game. Somehow it won’t seem the same using some store-bought plastic counters. Maybe we’ll just keep our penny jar.<\/p>\n

Not everything needs to be digital…<\/p>\n

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Searching “Crokinole Rummoli” brought me to a page on Find the Best<\/a>, which offered some interesting comparative facts.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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