Jan
Posted 03/13/2007 09:02 am
It's an American joke, started on the CU forum I believe. The basis is that your typical American collector of American coins knows more about "the dark side of the Moon" than they do about foreign coins. Thus, foreign coins are "darkside material" and collectors of such are "darksiders". American coins are "liteside".
Canadian stuff isn't entirely alien to your typical American - after all, you keep getting their coins in change. Canada is therefore neither entirely dark, nor lite - it's grey.
Here on CCF, with a more global membership, we often regard the "dark/lite" thing as relative. For Snooba and I down here in Oz, for example, Australian coins are "liteside", places like New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Solomon Islands are "greyside" and the rest of the world (including the USA) is "darkside".
Canadian stuff isn't entirely alien to your typical American - after all, you keep getting their coins in change. Canada is therefore neither entirely dark, nor lite - it's grey.
Here on CCF, with a more global membership, we often regard the "dark/lite" thing as relative. For Snooba and I down here in Oz, for example, Australian coins are "liteside", places like New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Solomon Islands are "greyside" and the rest of the world (including the USA) is "darkside".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
