OT: New U.S. $20s

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:44 am

I'm sure I read somewhere that all US banks notes (bills?) are the same size. How do the blind know what demonition they're handling?

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:45 am

What have you people got against beets? And what's with the old buffallo nickle?

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:12 am

Underpriviledged kids not being fed breakfast and getting on a bus for an hour and a half to go to an overcrowded school might be in need of 30 million dollars. I hearby authorize the government the right to not advertise things I have no choice but to accept.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:42 am

SirNick wrote:Underpriviledged kids not being fed breakfast and getting on a bus for an hour and a half to go to an overcrowded school might be in need of 30 million dollars. I hearby authorize the government the right to not advertise things I have no choice but to accept.

I'd agree, until <a href="http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet ... l">this</a> happened to me because of lack of education.

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:57 am

fearfaoin wrote:
SirNick wrote:Underpriviledged kids not being fed breakfast and getting on a bus for an hour and a half to go to an overcrowded school might be in need of 30 million dollars. I hearby authorize the government the right to not advertise things I have no choice but to accept.
I'd agree, until <a href="http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet ... l">this</a> happened to me because of lack of education.

That article's great!

I think I've been to that Taco Bell!

We get ourselves into these problems by starting something and just letting it fizzle out. Examples; We're switching to the metric system! (Oh nevermind.) We've got a $1 coin. (Oh nevermind, lets just give them all to the post office to use as change).

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:17 am

jbarter wrote:I'm sure I read somewhere that all US banks notes (bills?) are the same size. How do the blind know what demonition they're handling?

I have a good friend who is blind. Usually, he shops with his wife or a friend so it's not an issue. When that is not the case he uses a debit card or credit card - he is still signing something he can't see, but they have a record if the vendor tries to screw him. So far he's never been screwed.

He's even worked places where he had to receive money and issue receipts - for that he used a bill reader (like what you would find in a vending machine) attached to his computer.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:32 pm

Here's one of them:

The other one has the same front with a buffalo on the obverse. It was in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today.

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:01 am

Hi,
So here's a picture of the new $20. I like his hair!

They said that it will be harder to counterfiet... A friend from Ecuador said that the Columbians were printing up the twenty's with
Goerge Washington's face on them!

These bill do look nicer, more of a "color of money"...
As far as schools go, they need to cut the administration and give the money to the teachers.
Jon

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:19 am

Jon C. wrote:Hi,
So here's a picture of the new $20. I like his hair!

Did Jackson REALLY have that weird of a head? I mean really......the part above his eyes (his forehead) is just as big as the part below them. He looks like an alien

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Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:57 am

izzarina wrote:
Did Jackson REALLY have that weird of a head? I mean really......the part above his eyes (his forehead) is just as big as the part below them. He looks like an alien

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http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/cr ... rtion.html

Eyes are halfway down the face...

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:48 pm

Wanderer wrote:
izzarina wrote:
Did Jackson REALLY have that weird of a head? I mean really......the part above his eyes (his forehead) is just as big as the part below them. He looks like an alien

H
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/cr ... rtion.html
Eyes are halfway down the face...

It's true. I just measured mine. Of course, I may look like a alien, myself.

I'm assuming that izzarina meant "space alien", not "foreigner". I've always wanted to do a cartoon with a guy in a business suit standing next to a vegetable field, talking to another guy in an INS uniform. The field would be full of critters with eyes on stalks and tentacles, and the first guy would be saying, "How could I have known that they were aliens?"

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:53 pm

Darwin wrote:
Wanderer wrote:
Eyes are halfway down the face...

It's true. I just measured mine. Of course, I may look like a alien, myself.

Ok, I concede the point...it seems that I was having another...ahem...BRUNETTE moment

But I still say that there's something odd about his picture. And yes, Darwin, I WAS speaking of aliens from outer space.

Heather

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:59 pm

izzarina wrote:I still say that there's something odd about his picture.

It appears to me that he has a receding hairline and very bushy hair.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:05 pm

izzarina wrote: Ok, I concede the point...it seems that I was having another...ahem...BRUNETTE moment But I still say that there's something odd about his picture. And yes, Darwin, I WAS speaking of aliens from outer space.

Heather

It's probably cause his hair is sticking straight up, rather than dropping down over his forehead. It makes his head look a lot bigger than it is.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:14 pm

He has, if pictured accurately, an extraordinarily long face. So, even with his eyes being correctly placed, he has a gaunt and spooky aspect.