Thursday, June 02, 2005
Bad Decision, Big Fella
Governor Owens screwed up big. See, Colorado’s commemorative quarter is coming out and the design is anything but appropriate. From the Rocky’s Vincent Carroll:
Colorado boasts more than 50 mountains above 14,000 feet. Ungainly, overpriced books stuffed with pictures of Colorado scenery decorate thousands of coffee tables here and around the country. Tourism is one of the state’s biggest industries.
So which of the hundreds of spectacular scenes in Colorado will be featured on the state’s commemorative quarter? Um, none of them.
Colorado is a beautiful state. Driving through the mountains last weekend, and spending my day down near Colorado Springs, I reacquainted myself with some of that beauty. This weekend, I’ll do the same. As inspiring as it is, I find it hard to believe that the design for our quarter (admittedly, not the most important of things) couldn’t have drawn from the reality of our state.
Bad decision, Mr. Owens.
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How lame is that? It looks just like Long’s Peak, so they really should have just based it on Long’s. Or used the Pike’s Peak one. But I guess it’s like the Euro money with the imaginary buildings, they just didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
As if there were a bunch of Springs residents waiting to riot if it was a mountain visible from i70.
Wait, wait, wait…
There are imaginary buildings on Euro bucks? I didn’t know that.
Hell, that’s even more deeply disturbing.
Sure, you didn’t hear about that? From this: “The fact that the various denominations of the Euro depict imaginary buildings that exist in no European country, so that none of the nations of Europe will be offended, proves that the common European identity is very shallow indeed.”
Yep, that’s right, the bridge on the bill in the upper right doesn’t exist and never has.
That is laughable. Ridiculous.
And it bothers me that Owens followed in the EU’s footsteps on this one.
That’s no imaginary mountain. That’s John McCain’s ego.
Which also has nothing to do with Colorado, but still…
Hmmm, I didn’t see any piccies at the RMN link, but <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/money/4269481/detail.html’<KTVU has them</a<, all five proposed designs, in fact. Pikes Peak on one, an image from the Mesa Verde Cliff Palace on another. Two feature unnamed “rugged mountain backdrops”—which really do suck for vagueness. The 10th Mtn. Division design is a real loser though.
I’m betting the Treasury will select the “Bic C” design, because of the Columbine flower (I’m assuming it’s Columbine) in the design. Ugh.