Now that's what I call funny money.

/god I feel dirty

One day I saw a five dollar bill where Lincoln was drawn to look like Dracula. Where's my Reuters story?

I find the headline funny and sad at the same time. My $800 in spending money for Berlin is worth around 450 euros :P

Talk about depressing.

I LOL'ed subby.

From article:

hmmm. Kinda not impressed. More meh. Meh.

Funny money.

One of my favorites. i had to make one:

Homer turns back to the honey-roasted peanut jar.

Ah, the last peanut -- overflowing with the oil and salt of its departed
brothers.
-- Homer with an almost empty jar of peanuts, "Boy Scoutz 'N the Hood"

He tips his head back, closes his eyes, opens his mouth, and tosses the
peanut towards his head, missing his mouth. The peanut clatters behind
the couch, and after a couple of seconds, Homer observes, "Something's
wrong." He gets down on his hands and knees in front of the couch and
reaches underneath.

[Homer searches under the couch for a peanut]
Homer: Hmm...ow, pointy!
Eww, slimy.
Oh, moving!
Ah-ha! [looks, then says remorsefully] Oh, twenty
dollars...I wanted a peanut!
Homer's brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how.
Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for good and services.

Usually would not be that impressive but this is a coin...not a piece of paper you can just write on. Engraving a coin like this is no easy task. Kudos to the guy who did it and that he had a sense of humor.

mdbuff12:

Ah the good ol' days.

McBun: mdbuff12:

Ah the good ol' days.

Yeah, when the writing was good enough to be memorable.

/Sigh

the euro is worth a lot of what subby?

I think I drew a Hitler moustache on the Queen on every bill I handled in grade 9. Nobody even noticed.

FTFA: a sweetshop owner told Reuters on Friday.

I can't be the only person who read that as "a sweatshop owner."

Young Rory Calhoun: the euro is worth a lot of what subby?

*whoosh*

Young Rory Calhoun: the euro is worth a lot of what subby?

A lot of (annoyed grunt).

Obligatory

BatardAmericain: Obligatory

Join me or die! Can you not see that I am serious???

Came in for the reasonable discussion of monetary policy and leave disappointed.

mdbuff12: McBun: mdbuff12:

Ah the good ol' days.

Yeah, when the writing was good enough to be memorable.

/Sigh

Yeah, I remember that. The earlier episodes were timeless and are still entertaining. Once they started making political statements it went down hill. I stopped watching completely when they went to Europe and Lisa pretended to be Canadian instead of American.

Here's a free tip for you. If the show you're watching has more than one 'Bush is stupid' joke in it at this point, the writers aren't earning their paychecks.

Is it just me, or does it look like he's dressed like the spy from Team Fortress 2?

Forget the Euros anyway. I'm more impressed by the Eros!

NSFW (new window opens to the fiscal peep show)

texastag: Here's a free tip for you. If the show you're watching has more than one 'Bush is stupid' joke in it at this point, the writers aren't earning their paychecks.

This. The show has always had political jokes (Clinton was a frequent target in the show's glory days), but they were much, much funnier when they were just a brief sideswipe rather than the subject of the entire episode. The one exception I can think of was the one where Bush Sr. moved in across the street, but that was more about Dennis the Menace and spanking than politics.

/I think America is ready to move on past Bush, and begin pretending that he never existed. Nonstop jokes about him don't let us do that.
//Quit watching regularly a bit after the "Americatown" episode, which was basically one big rant.

We salute you Mr Speedfreak With a Dremel Man!

McKeesport Beer Baron: One of my favorites. i had to make one:

Bawahahahaha! I love it! Thank you!

That headline would have been funnier on Thursday before the dollar rallied against the Euro and saw its biggest gains in 8 years.

fred_chan: FTFA: a sweetshop owner told Reuters on Friday.

I can't be the only person who read that as "a sweatshop owner."

No, I had to read it three times. I thought it was pretty awesome he would just call himself a sweatshop owner.

ActionJoe: Usually would not be that impressive but this is a coin...not a piece of paper you can just write on. Engraving a coin like this is no easy task. Kudos to the guy who did it and that he had a sense of humor.

They're usually called "hobo nickels." Of course, you would've known that if the admins had greenlit MY headline that also had the d'oh joke in it and was posted 12 hours earlier.

/though I forgot the apostrophe in "d'oh"
//and this one was much more concise and to the point
///and so really, I'm just being bitter for being longwinded
////like now

Ape Shiat Nuts: «(_X^(°)

That looks like a USB dongle goblin, at first.

/i see what you did there
//mmm... icee

Dennis_Moore

Awesome!!

hotlinked

Beavosaurus Rex: hotlinked

It's really not that long of a thread. No excuses.

They really like The Simpsons over there in Spain, so this is no big surprise to me.

JewZeppy: Beavosaurus Rex: hotlinked

It's really not that long of a thread. No excuses.

Has anyone posted Headshot Lincoln yet?

coco ebert: I LOL'ed subby.

From article:

I liked the caption:
Candy shop owner Jose Martinez shows an official Spanish 1 Euro coin with the face of Spanish King Juan Carlos (L) and another one altered to look like a face of cartoon character Homer Simpson in the northern Spanish town of Avile August 8, 2008.

It was the (L). Somewhere out there, a copy editor decided that we needed to be told which coin was Juan Carlos and which coin was Homer Simpson.

I got a really well done two-headed U.S. quarter in my change once. One side is dated 1989 with a Denver mint mark, and the other is dated 1996 with a Philadelphia mint mark. So I tripped out on it for a few days and finally saw what they did: someone hallowed out the 1996 quarter, leaving the heads side and the entire rim. Then they cut the rim off of the 1989 quarter and cut it in half along the center plane and glued it into the hallowed out 1996 quarter. Nearly flawless work. It took very close inspection with a magnifying glass to see it.

I can only assume that someone accidentally spent their special trick coin.

FLASHBACK...

I bet it was made in Venezuela by that nut job and he plans to flood Spain with them as his revenge.

FYI, engraving a stamped coin does not require lots of talent or patience. I mean a bunch of drunken hobos did it the 1910s.

GIS (new window)
Wiki (new window)

/am under 30 and not a numismatist

Oh wow.

I laughed at the headshot Lincoln, the first time, snickered at the second.