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The Penny Problem

Jamál (Beauty), 7 Rahmat (Mercy) 176 B.E. - Sunday, June 30, 2019

Author's Note: ▼

I wrote the following paragraph sometime in June of 2001 (Rahmat 159 B.E.). I rediscovered them while going through some items I's discarding because of the lack of room. After some contemplation, I decided to put them in today's blog entry because I find them amusing. Enjoy the read and laugh if you like. If I remember correctly, I got the idea from a newspaper article about pennies.

The Penny Problem

I've heard some people would like the government to discontinue pennies because they are a nuisance. Even if the U.S. government stopped striking pennies today, we would still be faced with "the penny problem" into the unforeseeable future. Why? Because pennies breed, the multiply exponentially.

Put two pennies into a warm, dark coin purse or pocket and they become four. Then eight, then sixteen, multiplying to the capacity of the container before the stop breeding. If they can find a way of pushing their young out of the container, they will continue the procreation process, while their young migrate. "New" pennies will fall into larger purses and onto the ground or carpet.

Because pennies need to exchange genetic materials to multiply. A single penny will remain by itself for eternity. Beware, if you have another penny within scent distance of a single lonely penny. The two pennies will find each other and begin to multiply.