Pat Boone. Gives more credibility to my logic:
As far as I'm concerned, Country & Western started & finished with Johnny Cash.
@Brain_In_A_Jar
"CoinStar machines, in a market near you.
Good gravy. I had somehow avoided becoming aware of these contraptions. And they take almost a 10% commission, just to count change!"
And yet, the supermarkets here in the UK that have similar machines (Tesco's, Asda, Morrison's, Sainsburys etc) donate the commission from their change machines to charity (okay, so it's tax-deductible as far as they're concerned, but fair do's). The monolithic Tesco's is mainly Jewish-owned. Says so much about Pat, eh?
"As far as I can tell from the ad, the implication seems to be that the uselessness of gold in daily life is somehow twisted into a selling point: you give your kids money that's hard to actually spend so that they'll be less likely to succumb to the temptation to squander it."
Better not tell them about the 'Cash for Gold' operations that have sprung up the last couple of years (as a result of the almighty financial fuckup by Dumbya). Online, TV adverts (just put your gold jewellery in a postage-prepaid envelope, post it back, and receive payment by cheque or bank transfer), even one person behind a desk (with scales & a laptop) that are cropping up in shopping malls.
They even take Eagles/Buffaloes (US), Sovereigns/Britannias (UK), Maple Leaves (Canada), Nuggets (Australia), Krugerrands (South Africa), Napoleons (France), Pandas (China), and pendant-style 1/4, 1/2 - 1-troy ounce ingots (as long as they're at least 18-carat)
My grandmother left me her gold jewellery in her will. With the specific instruction to sell such if I needed to. Always the practical Yorkshire woman, she was.