Bush gets his face on the dollar bill.

[Nick Shogun]

He thinks he's worth $200. <p><div style="text-align:center">

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[Capntastic]

There would have been better ways to build this up. The thing that made stuff like the "BUSH ORDERS DRAFT" stuff amusing is that they were puns, and not lies.

LYING TO YOUR FRIENDS HOW COULD YOU.

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[Nick Shogun]

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[E Mouse]

Wow. Those people are idiots. <p><hr />

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>

[Capntastic]

Yeah; everyone knows that they'd make more money with 1,000,000 dollar bills.

[Diadia]

I feel sorry for the scammed. It sucks enough that they were the victims of crime, and instead of people going, "Hey, wow, that criminal fucking sucks!" most people are going to react with "Lols stoopids!"--I mean, fuck, just look at the structure of the article.

But also, there's a good chance that they'll pay for that money themselves. At my McD's, if you got taken in on this sort of stuff you were responsible for paying the difference--and it came out of your next paycheck. All of it. If you didn't make enough, then you didn't have a check, and the rest would keep coming until it was paid off. I think that's a hard enough lesson for anyone without heaping insult to injury.

[KingOfDoma]

True. You make a good point, Diane. But, you must admit, either the criminal's BRILLIANTLY ballsy, or the cashier's just plain gullible. Cuz... it's a two hundred dollar bill! With protesters on the presidential lawn! I know every time an even SLIGHTLY scurrilous bill came my way, I checked it. They had to be having SERIOUS tunnel vision to let that one slip... <p><hr />
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[diadia]

I know that every time a bill came my way, I never so much as looked at it but to check the amount at the corners. If it were above $20, I marked it with the counterfeit pen to check to see what color the mark turned. There wasn't any time to give closer inspection. Too fuckin' busy. Often--maybe 1/3 of the time?--I never turned the bills on their backs.

Point is, one doesn't need to be gullible--or stupid, or ignorant (incidentally, -I- am ignorant; I've never laid eyes on any bill above the denomination of $100, and I've only seen those because of work...don't know what they are, or what dead men *ahem* grace their faces). Fact of the matter is, one gets into a routine to get the everything accomplished--including protecting oneself from reasonable dangers--using the least amount of effort possible. And it's easy for the less scrupulous to exploit that.

[Evil Killer Poptarts]

Ugh... this summer, our town had a sudden influx of counterfeit fives and tens.

Let me repeat that: Counterfeit FIVES and TENS.

Guess who had to mark EVERY FREAKIN' BILL all summer? On the drive-thru? During lunch rush, where if you take more than four seconds to get people their change they're yelling at you?

Yeah.

While I can empathize about getting stuck footing the bill in the end, the simple precaution of a counterfeit pen works wonders.

(On another note, Staples loved the counterfeit problem; every store in town kept coming and buying their pens. The dratted things dry out in record time, so a package of three might last two days. Guess who went to Staples a lot! Woo!) <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>