When I first came to Canada I went to buy a hot dog off the street vendor for lunch (yummmmmmm) but now I am sick of them, I think I OD’d on them.
He asked me if I had a Loonie.
The newly immigrated 7aki: “Ha? A loony? You mean a crazy person? Why would I have a loony?”
Hot dog guy : “What crazy person? I want a Loonie.”
The newly immigrated 7aki: blank.
Hot dog guy: “Do you have a dollar?”
The newly immigrated 7aki: You call your dollar a loony? Why on earth would you call it a loony?
Hot dog guy: Have no clue. We just call it a Loonie .
Yes, it’s called a loonie
And guess what they call the 2 dollar coin? A toonie.
awwwwwww, how cuuuuuttttteeeeeee. How can you hate a country that calls its dollar coin a Loonie and its 2 dollar coin a toonie?
By the way it’s called a loonie because it has a picture of a loon on the back, I googled it and I went to tell the hot dog guy….he he he
Click here for more info on the loonie and the toonie , there are pictures in there 
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I can imagine the confusion! Loonie and toonie, LOL!
looool. This is so true. My friends told me about it when I first came to canada but I thought they were bluffing me. I didn’t listen to them till I learned the hard way (similar to your experience)
But I gotta agree, they are pretty cute
uggh dont get me started on the tooni…it made life soo much harder when they brought it out..i admit that $2 bill was uuuugggly and the tooni is so much cuter! bas it made loonies so scarces i had a hard time doing the laundry when i lived in mississauga. but yeh the names are so cute eh??
GOTTA LOVE CANADIANS =D
everything we do is STILL better than those down south hehehhe
LOOOOOOOOOL looni and tooni
.. I can imagine your face looking at the guys “eno malo ebn el masroo3a had?” LOOOOOOOOOL
.. I act like I know exactly what they mean while I have no clue what the hill they mean 
LOOOOOOOOOL life as a new immigrant is so much fun LOOOOOOOOOL
I actually still get confused when people around me say stuff that I never heard before
Wallahe that reminds me of poopoo and peepee since we are dealing with lots of those these days!
Ah! If that is the case then I would like to propose a Moogle coin!
sound nicer than naming our coins (shelen) and (bareezeh)
ah such a funny thing to talk ABOOT , eh ! Stay where yer at, ’till I gets where yer to
OH CANADIANS !!!! Tragically Hip from A to Zed !
so , do u know what milk in a bag is now ?? :>
hey dont forget the Tim’s double-double ok ?
and Am telling u for the last time . dont be sorry cuz i stepped on ur foot OK ?
ps. this might not make sense to you , its ok i mix up sometimes
(oh this was some serious brainstorming)
you know what they call the 2.5 piastres coin in jordan? Gar6a!
Who-sane: yah, confused I was.
Hamza: totally I also thought I was being bluffed!
Sam: I have a 2 dollar bill saved
, pretty cool. They are rare, they have Niagara falls on them.
Ghasheema:
. Absolutely. Canucks rule.
Mai: Oh the acting, when I first came to Canada I would be sitting in meetings and they would crack jokes, htat are really not funny, lol, you gotta have a Canadian sense of humor to understand and laugh at them, so I would go, ha ha ha ha ha..lol. But I guess I learned to appreciate their sense of humor now
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Mohannad: Oh the fun!
KJ: Moogle, I guess that would work. I mean Loonie? If Lonnie works, Moogle will definitely work.
Ozz: LOL…so true, never thought about that..HA HA HA.
Isam: hmmm, well I do get it.
For a guy living in Saudi you know a lot about Canada, eh!
Sel3: LOL, yah, biddi afham, why garta? Did they garato the shilin and it became a garta??? LOL…sigh.
LoooL that’s really funny
and OZZ: u forgot el (ta3reefeh)
I AM NOT LIVING HERE … I’M LOCATED HERE FOR THE TIME BEING … please !
and 7aki i know alot about everything … i even have a four digit IQ
and oh yea my cousins are canadians 
Manal: yah, zamaaaaaaaaan 3ala ilta3reefeh.
Isam: LOL…maskeen inta.
Wow, 4 digits? fazeeeeeeeeeee3, yah, and trees grow on Mars…HA HA HA