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My father often says "phony as a three-dollar bill."

Post 1

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 11:09am

My dad always said, "Full of shit as a Christmas turkey". Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but that was my dad...

Post 2

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 2:25pm

Interestingly enough, I have a three-dollar bill - it has a picture of Clinton on it.... :)

Post 3

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 3:07pm

Actually, decades ago, $3 was the price of a Judy Garland album.

Post 4

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 4:41pm

The 2$ bill was reissued for a short time in the seventies. I have one in my dresser drawer.

My dad used to say, "He wouldn't make a pimple on a philosopher's ass," usually about preachers (which dad loathed.) The sentence also ended with mechanics and popular singers of his time. <g>

About Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison, etc., etc.,
"He wouldn't make a pimple on Frank Sinatra's ass!"

Post 5

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 7:30pm

My satirical response was a joke to a non-objectivst but reasonable guy friend of mine who is too young to remember the $2 bill. My roomate also got one, and asked me if it was real money. I said no, and bought it off him for a dollar.

My Uncle who was in the military before WWII but styed stateside in that conflict says military were intentionally paid cash $2 bills to show the locals the benefits of having an army base near by. FASCIST PRPOAGANDA!!! Mwa ha ha ha... Sorry, I have walking pneumonia, am a bit more delirious than usual..

And I've seen the bill clinton bill. But I keep wondering where they hid his "bridge to the twentyfirst century"?"
(Edited by Ted Keer
on 11/14, 7:32pm)

Post 6

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 9:15pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._two_dollar_bill

Post 7

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 3:39am

Wow, I don't remember 1995 two dollar bill at all.

The penny sticks around, even though it costs more to produce than it's worth, and the two dollar bill gets kicked to the curb, along with the .50 coin.

I always liked the idea of a .50 coin. Remember how big and impressive they were? Nice coins.

I sound like Andy Rooney, probably because I'm sick too.

Post 8

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:51am

Canada has both a $1 and $2 coin. It's something that should probably be done here.

Interestingly enough, I managed to get an old $20 bill at the bank on Monday. I will probably hang onto it. This was before the redesign of 1998.

Post 9

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 10:03am

The Canadian one dollar coin is called a "loonie" because of the loon depicted on it. The two dollar coin is colloquially called a "twonie" but at one point it was suggested that it be called a "doubloon." I think it was a pity that it wasn't.

Post 10

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 10:51am

Dad says the $2 bill did end circulation in 1948, so it was Truman who stopped the bucks. I always ask for the odd coins in the change till when I use a live bank teller. Like the silver dollars. Would like some real $20 silver coins to be in circulation. Slver or electrum standard sounds good to me.

It was the 1995 $2 that I got my roommate to sell for me for $1 cause it was a fake. I still have it pressed in abook, or he would have spent it on cigarettes by now.

Teresa, Iv'e missed you. Hope nothing more serious than this green cough going around the north-east.

Ted

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Dad adds:

Mares eat oats
and does eat oat,
Little lambs eat ivy
a kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you

Sung in a song the words come out quite clear as:

Mairzy doats sand doesy doats
and liddle lambsee divey
a kiddlee divee too
wooden shoe

That was just before -"Hutsut ralston on the rila-rye and a brawl a brawl a sooit!"
Find the song as having something to do with a river in Sweden and something else?
It was always - to me- as queer as a three dollar bill, since 1948 approximately.

Post 11

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 11:07am

I like British money. The coins are nice and heavy!

I heard a report that orders for $2 bills were up especially to casinos and clubs as it tended to increase the size of tips if change was in $2 bills rather than 1s.

E.

Post 12

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 11:29am

Ted:

How come you young whippernappers know about this? I remember this vividly.

The Hut Sut Song

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit,
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the rillerah is a stream.
The brawla is the boy and girl,
The Hut-Sut is their dream.

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit.

Sam

Post 13

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 5:21pm

Teresa, Iv'e missed you. Hope nothing more serious than this green cough going around the north-east.

Just that crappy sore-throat-cough-hack-constant-congestion-fever going around. Probably brought on by a new job I took a few weeks ago. The pay is awesome, but the boss is a total prick and works us like dogs over there.

Actually, it's not that we have to work our ass off. I don't mind that. No one at this place does. It's that he's such an amazing jerk. Sarcastic, insulting, and disrespectful to a whole new height. A complete infant. He's been in business for 4 years, but not because of his own brillance, nooooo. It's because he knows how to hire great people who do all of the work for him. He just yaks on the phone and barks at people, in between insulting them.

He has a few Mexi-chicks there who speak almost no English, and takes terrible advantage of them (10 to 12 hour work days, on their feet, with one 15 minute break for "lunch"). They're terrified of him, but I'm not. I had these girls squealing with laughter over "Senor Matt! Por favor, senor alubias para sesos!" today.

What an asshole. Anyway, I'm certain I got this bug for lack of sleep from this new job. An honest to goodness sweatshop right here in the Midwest. Geesh!

Mares eat oats
and does eat oat,
Little lambs eat ivy
a kid'll eat ivy too
Wouldn't you

LOLOL!! My mom used to sing that to us when we were really little.

Back to bed now.... I can't even take a fucking sick day without hell and damnation raining down from Senor Matt Frijole for brains.

Post 14

Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 3:15am

a friendly warning t, if your boss googles your name he may see your post.

Also, be aware, Rand cited the "Mairzy Doats" song as anti-mind nonsense at some point. You may also get your mom in trouble with the wrong crowds.

I am in chest and head pain, with a minor cough but bad congestion and feel like I'm suffering night-time drowsy so I can get some relief medicine...

Ted

Post 15

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:25pm

My mother used to say, "All the world's queer, except me and thee, and even thee's a little queer." Has anyone here heard that one before?

- Bill

Post 16

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 5:35am

Thought that was attributed to Oscar Wilde.....

Post 17

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 9:12am

"Queer as a football bat" is how it goes in my circles....

Post 18

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 10:32am

Evidently, "All the world's queer except me and thee . . ." appeared in Jessamyn West's novel The Friendly Persuasion, published in the year of my birth, 1940. West is a Quaker who wrote stories about Quakers. My mother was not a Quaker, but she told me that part of her ancestry was Dutch, so that may be where she got it.

- Bill
(Edited by William Dwyer
on 11/22, 10:38am)

Post 19

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 4:07pm