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[Guest]

Your money ISN'T money. It is a collection of Federal Reserve Notes- IOUs from the US Government. Those green pieces of paper are part of the national debt, and we are FORCED to increase it, because how else can we buy the shit that we need!

I finally balanced my checkbook.

Honestly.

Oh, I knew approximately how much was in there - cut it close a few times - but I finally printed off the on-line banking notes and did the big numerical sequence.



(I thought it would make me feel better - nahhhh.)

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I used to be an active member of the John Birch Society. WHAT was I thinking?

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Did you know that 'paper' money isn't printed on paper?

I heard somewhere that it was actually made of cotton. Incidentally, it used to be made of buckskin, hence the nickname of "buck" for a dollar.

 

[entitled]

I heard somewhere that it was actually made of cotton. Incidentally, it used to be made of buckskin, hence the nickname of "buck" for a dollar.

It is. Superfine cotton threads, specially treated, tightly woven, treated again, then printed.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

It is. Superfine cotton threads, specially treated, tightly woven, treated again, then printed.

Harder to counterfeit, I guess.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Continuing the money factoid theme here for a minute (before I quit hijacking this thread, or is it hijacking), the Continental Congress once printed money so worthless it started the phrase "not worth a Continental".

 

[entitled]

Harder to counterfeit, I guess.

More durable.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

More durable.

Ah, well that makes sense.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart.

What, did he "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"? No, wait, that was Muhammad Ali (in his "Cassius Clay" days).