Comments on: Historical proto-Al Jaffee hides trenchant commentary in design of US Dollar Bill

By: noah django

noah django — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:05:00 +0000

the pearl necklace is a nice touch

By: Daniel Lewis Finn

Daniel Lewis Finn — Sat, 26 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000

It was Roosevelt who placed the words “The Great Seal” and “of the United States” under the obverse/reverse imprints of the Great Seal on the first copy of the 1935 one dollar bill. You can see his original handwritten instructions on the alteration here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1935_Dollar_Bill_Back_Early_Design.jpg

By: R_Young

R_Young — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:41:00 +0000

It’s JEW ALIENS man, get it right. If you don’t know their true name, you can’t them except during an eclipse.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:27:00 +0000

Nah – See the webbing ?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:02:00 +0000

Recursion – u haz it.

By: Vincenzo Ravina

Vincenzo Ravina — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:25:00 +0000

You’re both wrong. It’s clearly Kraven the Hunter.

By: Vincenzo Ravina

Vincenzo Ravina — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:23:00 +0000

I don’t know, Canadian money is colourful and tends to hover around par with US money.

By: D Wyatt

D Wyatt — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:06:00 +0000

I saw this first.
“Novus Ordo
The Greed State”

New order-The Greed State.
Mission Accomplished!

By: CokePlusMentos

CokePlusMentos — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:05:00 +0000

wut? where?

By: D Wyatt

D Wyatt — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:28:00 +0000

Learn from history, here is a useful fact since we will all be paying for milk with thousand dollar bills soon enough…..
The more outlandish/flamboyant money becomes the less it and its government have worth. I have a few million dollars, its very bright colorful its just not from this country so its worth around 0.22 cents American.

Recap-If your money is purple pink and orange its barely worth the paper its printed on. The American penny costs 3 pennies to make….Talk about pissing into a canyon to fill it. If I remember right the American dollar is worth exactly 4cents on the dollar, not the paper being worth 4cents but its actual worth in REALITY.

By: D Wyatt

D Wyatt — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:28:00 +0000

No? It’d be a lot cooler if you did maaan…

By: Blinde Schildpad

Blinde Schildpad — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:04:00 +0000

/b/, obviously.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Beavis.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:03:00 +0000

We used to fold Washington so that he looked like a mushroom. Oh, and for us it was ERICA, not AMERICA.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:02:00 +0000

Wow. That is… uhh…

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:55:00 +0000

I’m pining for them.

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:49:00 +0000

So Who’s responsible for this?

By: Ethan Taliesin Houser

Ethan Taliesin Houser — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:37:00 +0000

This is Mad I say, Mad!

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:50:00 +0000

And the 13 letters in “ANNUIT COEPTIS” and the 13 letters in “E PLURIBUS UNUM” and 13 letters in “ONE DOLLAR BILL” and the 13 stars above the eagle’s head, and the 13 dollar bills in $13.

Oh, sorry, did I just blow your freekin mind??

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:39:00 +0000

”BATMAN” ? That’s a SPIDERMAN symbol, you blind fool.

By: frogmarch

frogmarch — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:00 +0000

By the 1980s, fourth-graders had discovered that a couple of more-complicated folds could turn The unITed stateS OF AMERICA into TITS OF AMERICA.

And that if you cover G.W.’s face with your thumb, the outline of his lapel, collar, and neck ruffle looks (kind of) like a big veiny weenus.

Yeah, we didn’t have the internet then.

By: Cefeida

Cefeida — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:43:00 +0000

The most annoying thing about this is that now I have to google a picture of an unfolded dollar to compare. If you do an after, y u no do a before?

By: benfission

benfission — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:37:00 +0000

Five Dollar Blow Jobs here:

By: John T.

John T. — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:16:00 +0000

To paraphrase Lou Reed, some people like to fold dollar bills and make snarky commentary about America, other people, like us, we gotta work.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:10:00 +0000

True the engravings could have been a lot more interesting. Not sure which is more boring though…generic architecture or old white men. :-)

you can’t do this with a euro though:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3410/3290565387_a387d4d059_z.jpg

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:47:00 +0000

I just think it’s a shame that they chose to represent generic European architecture rather than specific monuments.

Oh, is that why I just spent five minutes trying to figure out what they were?

By: Petzl

Petzl — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:46:00 +0000

Keep Jaffee-ing it until you get “THE GOD STATES”

By: noah django

noah django — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:35:00 +0000

Hey, man; spelling and proof-reading are rated a bit higher on the list of “things to do” for a lot of people. This just puts you–like American money–closer to the ideal of the American Maverick. God bless you, sir.

By: noah django

noah django — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:27:00 +0000

Slater, you fuckin’ hippie! Gimmie drugs, man!

By: noah django

noah django — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:23:00 +0000

[as Homer Simpson's Brazilian kidnappers peruse the briefcase containing their ransom demand]
Kidnapper 1: Look at all that pink and purple!
Kidnapper 2: Yes, our money is… really gay.