I stopped to get cash the other day and got two crisp, new twenty dollar bills. The new bills are pretty cool, though I was a bit miffed then when I went to the grocery store auto-check out, they had little signs that said they didn’t accept the new $20 bill. Apparently it’s too high-tech for the auto-check out or something.
You’d think they’d make the new $20 bill backwards compatible.
And of course, the new bill has a conspiracy theory. If you fold the bill just right it looks like the World Trade Center burning on one side and the Pentagon burning on the other. A second site goes into conspiracies on other bills, which says coincidence to me. Maybe making George Washington look like a mushroom on the $1 bill was a conspiracy about the atomic bomb. Or maybe not.
Have you ever heard the joke about the hitchhiker on the $10 bill? Yeah, you’re supposed to have a friend look for the hitchhiker on the street scene on the back of the bill. When they can’t find him, you shrug your shoulders and say, “Huh, I guess he got picked up.”
[insert groans here]
I tried the $20 conspiracy. Someone was trying too hard IMHO. I’m not too crazy about the little 20’s all over the back of ’em. Kinda looks like a 4 year old got ahold of the mother and went to town with a stamp or something. Ah well.
On a more serious note wouldn’t it be nice for blind people if the various bills had different sizes so they could figure out which was which without trusting someone or doing special folds for each bill and the like?
I wish I had time & money so I could sit around and fold it to remember world events…. I think I have better things to do.
Oh, and the websites you linked to are ugly. I think the real conspiracy here is poor web design!