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November 11, 2002
Blow, Not Grow
Canada's new $10 bill came out while I was in Japan last year. Since I'm a Canadian coin collector, I took great interest in learning about it (also so I wouldn't be shocked when I got back to Canada and someone gave me one for change). On the back on the bill is the first couple of verses from John McCrae's In Flanders Fields. This poem is taught early in Canadian schools (I learned it in grade 4). It really saddened me to hear that a lot of Canadians were stockpiling the bills because of a "typo" in the first line of the poem:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Blow, not grow. A two-second Google search revealed that. I think people are to ready to abandon common sense and their education when it comes to making a potential fortune.