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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 23 November 2020 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Up Here magazine just voted The Wolverine to be the toughest animal of the north (true north strong and free), beating the Polar Bear, Wood Bison, Walrus and others. So why isn't he on any of our coins?

https://www.uphere.ca/articles/who-norths-toughest-animal
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 23 November 2020 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Ms. Jansen - because he hasn't made a good impression? ;)

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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 23 November 2020 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Ha! :^)

I overlooked this coin, not a great likeness but it seems to be 'real'...

Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 23 November 2020 at 6:36pm
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 23 November 2020 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

My kids used to watch he show Kratt’s Creatures and the Kratt brothers would always get very hands on with whatever animal they were featuring, no matter how vicious.

Except the wolverine.  When the wolverine came to their set, there were plexiglass walls everywhere.   Nobody was touching that beast.
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 23 November 2020 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

The Royal Canadian Mint get through a lot of designs.


They haven't done this one yet though:



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John Byrne

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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 6:49am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

By weight, the toughest critter in the North is the tiny arctic shrew.

Not quite as impressive as a Wolverine, of course.

Perched atop my monitor. . . .

Excuse the blur. Too much going on in the background for the autofocus on my iPhone to deal with.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 7:13am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Tangent: I watched the new documentary on John Belushi yesterday, which featured his first skit on "Saturday Night," wherein part of the joke was Belushi playing a foreigner trying to learn English, and every sentence his teacher gave him to repeat oddly featured the word wolverine. That was in October of 1975. Back when likely nobody in the studio audience and probably just as likely nobody in the viewing audience too made any association between the animal and the relatively new, obscure comicbook character. Kind of amazing to ponder -- or for geezers like me to remember -- a time when that was possible!
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John Byrne

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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 7:46am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

This morning I was presented with the opposite experience. Googled “wolverine” only to find myself confronted with page upon page of Hugh Jackman pictures.
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 9:33am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

And yet, as fierce and violent as the pygmy shrew might be - he holds still for you wonderfully, Mr. Byrne. Good boy. Stay. Staaay.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 10:00am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

That’s a wolverine.
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Eric Sofer
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 10:17am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Mr. Byrne: "That's a Wolverine."

Ah. Then he's probably just star struck and posing for his next appearance in Elsewhen.
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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 24 November 2020 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Thanks to old movies we know shrews can be killers!

https://aurorasginjoint.com/2014/07/14/the-tail-wagging-terr or-of-the-killer-shrews-1959/

A 'mini me' for Wolvie, or a slightly different variety of Porg for Chewie to try to snack on?
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