Even my pocket change is making me homesick
August 5th, 2007 by screenwriterguy
 I really need to commit to taking a trip home in September. I saw Washington’s quarter for the first time today (I guess they went into circulation in April) and I desperately wanted to be right there, in the picture on the back.
I may be biased, but this absolutely seems like the best designed of all the quarters. Mount Rainier, a forest, “The Evergreen State,” and a salmon, all laid out nicely into the space on the back of the quarter. Definitely better than dumb old Indiana, with it’s race car, or Montana, which is evidently the dead cow state. And we get it, Illinois. Lincoln was born there. Get over yourselves. In the early days of my old sketch troupe, I wrote a joke that never made the stage: I thought it would be funny if, when it came Washington’s turn to design their quarter, they put a picture of George Washington’s head on the back. That still makes me laugh. I’m awesome. |
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Aug 5th 2007 at 10:49 am
I too am proud of our quarter. I don’t know if you were here when it was being designed. The east side of the state was clammering for a design like wheat or apples (though apples might have worked). I haven’t seen the quarter up here yet, but that doesn’t surprise me. The East Coast thinks we’re in Canada.
I loved that idea of just Washington on the back of the coin. “Heads!” “Heads? Damn, it is!” Then you could have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in real life…
Aug 5th 2007 at 1:25 pm
That doesn’t surprise me that Eastern Washington wanted something different than Western Washington. Seems to be the identity struggle of the state that the mountains shall forever split it into two cultures. But I’m glad it wound up as it did. What, are wheat exports going to rise because they put it on the quarter? Don’t think so.
Aug 5th 2007 at 8:12 pm
“we get it, Illinois. Lincoln was born there. Get over yourselves.” — I am getting this printed on a T-shirt.
Aug 5th 2007 at 9:52 pm
I look forward to a long and happy life living off the royalties for said T-shirt.