25 Hilarious (and Nerdy) Ways to Deface Your Dollars
- Thread starter John Funk
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Maybe we should have an exchange program to avoid each country's "no defacing YOUR OWN currency" laws.
I'll send my English Pound Notes (in exchange for equivalent in US notes) so you can doodle on Charles Darwin. Yeah, we got Charles Darwin on our £10 notes, go figure, he actually shares space with our Queen who is ironically the Head of the Church of England.
I'll send my English Pound Notes (in exchange for equivalent in US notes) so you can doodle on Charles Darwin. Yeah, we got Charles Darwin on our £10 notes, go figure, he actually shares space with our Queen who is ironically the Head of the Church of England.
Well for one, the currency is the property of the US Government, it is just lent to you for basic exchange for goods and services. As for the expense, it still costs less than even half a dollar to print a dollar. Coins are where things get expensive and into deficit spending. Not like they would act on a small matter such as this. I myself wish the Treasury would go after those tards that run WheresGeorge(dot)com. That is ugly defacement in its own right. These drawings on the other hand are quite sweet.Caliostro said:
Actually I've seen Uncle Pennybags drawn on a dollar. And many other creative works of art. Convenience stores are the best places to work to see many interesting bills. I've even collected some silver certificates that way. And even some good foreign coins.ninjajoeman said:
I'm afraid the title of best Illegal nerd money has already been taken by the Doctor Who £10 note.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/advent06/images/ten_pounds.jpg
Made for the episode "The Runaway Bride" (the Christmas one with Catherine Tate) where the Doctor makes cash fly out of an ATM to distract some killer robot Santas.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/advent06/images/ten_pounds.jpg
Made for the episode "The Runaway Bride" (the Christmas one with Catherine Tate) where the Doctor makes cash fly out of an ATM to distract some killer robot Santas.
Glefistus said:
huh?
I'm looking at a £10 note right now and the face of Queen Elizabeth II is right there.
The Queen is on our coins but where is there any Prime Minister on any of our currency?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling#Bank_of_England_notes
Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?
It technically isn't your property, you may be in possession of it but every dollar in circulation is owned by the central bank, and in the US that is the federal reserve. Oh Zeitgeist how you have enlightened me.dochmbi said:
He's talking about our Canadian money. But I don't see what the difference is between drawing on John A McDonald's face than Abe Lincoln's. Plus we don't have to deface our money to get a laugh out of it. Take the twoonie (our two dollar coin, which has a polar bear on it) turn it on it's side, and put your thumb over the head and half of the legs, Voila! A T-Rex!Treblaine said:
I feel like drawing on Canadian Tire money now.
I think the law against defacing money could have something to do with controlling inflation and deflation.
Think about it, illegally printing your own money has the effect of devaluing the currency, but say you somehow legally amassed a huge amount of cash and destroyed it all, that would INCREASE the value of the currency. Some industrialist could abuse this to hteir own advantage and become incredibly rich while destabilising the economy.
For a government to retain control of it's currency it must have a monopoly over both the printing of new cash in mints as well as destroying cash. Cash is incinerated at a steady rate as notes in circulation get worn out and when deposited in banks the decision is made there what to do with them.
But cash in becoming less and less relevant nowadays, with the overwhelming majority of transactions conducted electronically and most actual money only ever existing as a number in a banks computer system... cash will soon disappear.
I predict Coins will disappear first as they are too expensive to manufacture... but cash has always been a liability. The good thing about a cashless society is the armed robber will essentially become obsolete.
Think about it, illegally printing your own money has the effect of devaluing the currency, but say you somehow legally amassed a huge amount of cash and destroyed it all, that would INCREASE the value of the currency. Some industrialist could abuse this to hteir own advantage and become incredibly rich while destabilising the economy.
For a government to retain control of it's currency it must have a monopoly over both the printing of new cash in mints as well as destroying cash. Cash is incinerated at a steady rate as notes in circulation get worn out and when deposited in banks the decision is made there what to do with them.
But cash in becoming less and less relevant nowadays, with the overwhelming majority of transactions conducted electronically and most actual money only ever existing as a number in a banks computer system... cash will soon disappear.
I predict Coins will disappear first as they are too expensive to manufacture... but cash has always been a liability. The good thing about a cashless society is the armed robber will essentially become obsolete.
