How To: Make a B-Boy Abe Lincoln out of a $5 Bill

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keithizzle

Here’s my first attempt. Took me about 30 minutes, lol!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1357.snc4/162902_484873953262_735428262_5980104_5259909_n.jpg
- g0d5m15t4k3
  
  Looks good to me! I only had an old $1 bill from a coworker to work with. I made a super terrible Washington with a hat… then successfully made a shirt-dollar.
  
  If work didn’t block me from my own Twitpic account, I’d link the pics. You can find me there though with the same username.
knoxblox

…and the Skater Kids point to Skater Lincoln, and whisper amongst themselves, “Man, that dude’s OLD.”
SamSam

Between steps 2 and 3, and 3 and 4… magic happens. That is all.
Anonymous

not as good as the Australian fiver (you can make the queen suck a penis)
- adamnvillani
  
  “(you can make the queen suck a penis)”
  
  That reminds me of how somebody pointed out that if Prince William has a stripper at his bachelor party, how odd it must feel to him to pay her with pieces of paper bearing his grandmother’s portrait.
  
  I’m American, and I remember the day in junior high when somebody demonstrated how to fold a dollar bill to make George Washington look like a penis.
Anonymous

NINJYA 20$
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsso_0WaMPs
Anonymous

Trying this with an old $5 bill makes it that much more confusing :(
cole.perry

“Abe BLINGcoln”?
- Anonymous
  
  A. Blingoln
Anonymous

I am very angry about this.

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Original name is ” Kid Lincoln”

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mchampag

Especially in light of Saturday’s murders in Arizona, the “Cap Lincoln” remark is in questionable taste. In street jargon, to “cap” someone is to shoot them. Abraham Lincoln himself was a victim of exactly that sort of gun violence. Or is that all part of the joke? It must be. It’s just an elaborate pun. Otherwise, the $100 bill would have been used, since it’s all about the benjamins, and that would have been more funny anyway. Never mind.
- Anonymous
  
  Uhm. I just thought I should point out, the more logical of our community would look at the “Cap Lincoln” heading (not remark) as a description of what it is. Not street jargon for saying, “Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head like Gabrielle Giffords, LOL!”
- AirPillo
  
  I was going to make a playful John Wilkes Booth joke but after that depressing comment I’m just going to take my ball and go home.
  - thecheat
    
    Just don’t shoot your ball into the back of this bill’s head.
    
    Sheesh, talk about Buzz Killington.
- Anonymous
  
  In light of you being an over analytical “Debby Downer”, I’d like to say I don’t see how this at all relates to the shooting in Arizona. Only a hoity-toity, political correctness seeking, suburban soccer mom would make that connection. Besides, nobody’s used the term “capped” since the 90′s.
- Anonymous
  
  don’t you think that’s a stretch? the point is making a baseball CAP on lincolns head, i sense no distastefulness from it
- ethancoop
  
  *sigh*
  last time I checked the $5 bill doesn’t have Gabrielle Giffords face on it so what’s the problem with a little joke at a long since deceased President’s expense?
  
  You’ve just made the internet a little less fun today. Thanks.
Anonymous

Im so angry at step 3.
- Anonymous
  
  that was the joke….
- Patrick Dodds
  
  Very good Anon. Flapping bird next.
- Anonymous
  
  for real wtf is happening in step 3 its like an optical illusion
Anonymous

Fucking awesome!
Anonymous

My first attemptâ€“

http://twitpic.com/3ow8w0

LOL!
Anonymous

Step 3 is my bane. I could not progress past that.
Anonymous

Queenie vs Charlie D (Darwin)

http://rory-mc.tumblr.com/post/2699170031/yah-trick-whatchu-say-about-the-origin-of-species
Anonymous

Knob Creek Farm represent!

Seen.
Anonymous

Related: How to Spock a Canadian $5 bill –

http://ibackpackcanada.com/spock-five-the-new-canadian-currency/

http://bacon.frymybacon.com/2006/07/19/test/
g0d5m15t4k3

I wanted to do this but neither I nor any of my office coworkers have paper money. This is what the world has come to. All credit all the time.

My ex and I used to make a punch of shirt dollars (http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/shirt/) before going to the bar. When you tip in shirts, the staff tend to remember you (for amusement at the least if you’re a bad tipper).
Anonymous

B-Boy? That’s a skater in the graphic. Not all B-Boys are skaters and visa versa.
fatuousplatitudes

Pa! I see your B-Boy Lincoln and raise you a badly chopped Surfer Girl Betty

http://tinypic.com/r/mjbhie/7

Of course, now I’ll have to emigrate to the colonies…
Anonymous

There is some kind of wizardry involved in Step 3.
skeletoncityrepeater

Great trick, but why is the final image dressed as a skater, and not dressed as a B-Boy? Shouldn’t ‘breakdancing’ be somehow involved?
johnofjack

From 2 to 3: fold it over so the 5 shows upside down under Lincoln’s jaw, then reach under it and pull the other corner (also a 5) down and to the left.