Tribute to Mr Hockey have Gordie on the the Currency

[CaymanIslands]

As a tribute to the man who was hockey as the face on a bill?

Would you support this?

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[Prairie Habs]

Opposite the queen or instead of? Personally I would have him replace the queen on all the bills but I would settle for him just being on one of them.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Replace racist ******* John A.

Though I'd rather see someone more deserving. No disrespect to Gordie.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

I think if anything they should just put him as somebody playing hockey.

I bet if Gretzky did die today, people would be saying he should be on one of the dollars, people would even say over Gordie Howe.

So there's no point in doing so.

 

[New User Name]

As sad as is to hear he passed (as it is anyone that dies, really) the guy lived to 88, and was a full time resident of the USA for 70 years and Canada for only 18 years. He was more American than Canadian.

As are Orr, Lemieux and Gretzky.

So no, don't want to see him or them on any Canadian currency or stamps.

Jean Béliveau makes more sense.

 

[JuniorNelson]

Canada doesn't really do that sort of thing. We put a bird on the two dollar coin instead of Terry Fox for example. We cherish our memories elsewhere. If that were to change under this new dynamic government Howe would be a sound candidate.This being Canada, you'd have to acknowledge Maurice Richard, too. We already missed that op, so I doubt they pick up Howe's option either.

 

[Philly85*]

As sad as is to hear he passed (as it is anyone that dies, really) the guy lived to 88, and was a full time resident of the USA for 70 years and Canada for only 18 years. He was more American than Canadian.

As are Orr, Lemieux and Gretzky.

So no, don't want to see him or them on any Canadian currency or stamps.

Jean Béliveau makes more sense.

Don't want to get into this discussion but agree completely

 

[Penguinator]

Don't want to get into this discussion but agree completely

As i.

Currency isn't current historically speaking for figure heads. Will take time, should be updated... eventually.

2525, right on.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Put 'em on the $50.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

If it gets rid of the Queen on our money....then absolutely.

 

[Habsrule]

Make a $9 bill.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

I like the proposition above for Beliveau.

Make a $9 bill.

 

[Penguinator]

Make a $9 bill.

This is why it makes it so funny:

Although various US states printed $3 bills before the unification of the currency, no US$3 bills have ever been printed. However, various fake US$3 bills have been released over time, generally poking fun at politicians or celebrities such as Richard Nixon, Michael Jackson, George W. Bush, both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama in reference to the idiomatic expression "queer as a three-dollar bill" or "phony as a three-dollar bill". In the 1960s, Mad printed a $3 bill that featured a portrait of Alfred E. Neuman and read: "This is not legal tender—nor will a tenderizer help it." Mad writer Frank Jacobs said that the magazine ran afoul of the US Secret Service because the $3 bill was accepted by change machines at casinos.

Mad Mag also came up with:

So yeah, print those 9$ bills already!

 

[Hot Water Bottle]

Dunno about actual currency, but he'd be a natural on Canadian Tire money.

 

[kaiser matias]

Canada doesn't really do that sort of thing. We put a bird on the two dollar coin instead of Terry Fox for example. We cherish our memories elsewhere. If that were to change under this new dynamic government Howe would be a sound candidate.This being Canada, you'd have to acknowledge Maurice Richard, too. We already missed that op, so I doubt they pick up Howe's option either.

There's a polar bear on the toonie, not a bird. And if you are referring to the $2 bill, the entire series had birds, as it was the "Birds of Canada" series.

 

[Grant]

Maybe a limited time edition quarter or one of those collectors $20 silver coin. Nothing permanent.

 

[treple13]

Better to have a Canadian hockey player on Canadian money than an old British woman who has never lived in Canada in her entire life.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

If this were what the thread title SAYS (that it was actually happening), then it would be threadworthy.

As it is, take it to the stickied thread.