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(MSNBC)   Storm knocks down 140-year-old elm tree on White House lawn, rendering portrait on back of $20 bill inaccurate   (nbc10.com) divider line 89
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2006-06-27 04:27:54 PM
While this is interesting I find it sad this gets more new coverage than the average missing child. Oh well.
 
2006-06-27 05:11:39 PM
Drew should watch his kid more closely.
 
2006-06-27 05:22:05 PM
rendering portrait on the back of the $20 dollar bill no longer accurate

So send them all to me, and I'll dispose of them properly.
 
2006-06-27 05:24:36 PM
So does that mean I'll only see one of the Twin Towers when I fold my $20s now?
 
2006-06-27 06:50:15 PM
What's a 20?
 
2006-06-27 06:50:18 PM
Is this a conspiracy to cover up the conspiracy to have the Twin Towers image on the back of the $20 bill? I am betting it is.
 
2006-06-27 06:51:07 PM
Surprisely I have a $20 in my pocket, I'm putting it on eBay right, starting bid only $.01 !
 
2006-06-27 06:51:13 PM
goober

i lol'ed
 
2006-06-27 06:52:14 PM
boy, I need to start drinking, then my posts may make more sense.
 
2006-06-27 06:53:14 PM
I blame President Bush!

/obligatory
 
2006-06-27 06:54:09 PM
Storm also created a sink hole in the driveway of the house next to mine. What's funny is that this is the jerk developer who tore down the fence on the property line without asking me.



KARMA BURNS, EVEN IN THE RAIN!
 
2006-06-27 06:54:47 PM
you ever look at the back of a twenty dollar bill... ON WEED MAN?!?!?!
 
2006-06-27 06:55:08 PM
Anyone notice that two of the girls on the left side of the page are just absolutely rank looking? The one in red looks like a simpleton chipmunk. The stoned looking one in black . . . methinks she's a man.

//$20 for sex? They'd probably go for it.
 
2006-06-27 06:58:36 PM
img181.imageshack.us

For the less fortunate farkers.

Things'll pick up one day, hang in there.
 
2006-06-27 06:59:58 PM
God must be angry at The White House for some reason.
 
2006-06-27 07:00:34 PM
dead men on the front, dead trees on the back ... who cares, i'll take all i can get
 
2006-06-27 07:01:21 PM
"The NBC White House Bureau reports that the tree is featured prominently on back of the $20 bill."

Thank you for including that credit. Now we know who's responsible for this marvelous piece of investigative journalism.
 
2006-06-27 07:01:31 PM
Oh well.. I guess all these $20 bills I have are worthless.

Damnit@!!!!!! CHRIST!!
 
2006-06-27 07:02:22 PM
BTW, Another thing on the back of the $20 bill is no longer there, either. Our trust in GOD.
 
2006-06-27 07:02:31 PM
img78.imageshack.us
 
2006-06-27 07:03:37 PM
oh no.. a tree

*yawn*
 
2006-06-27 07:04:48 PM
Bush Lied, a Tree Died
 
2006-06-27 07:05:03 PM
Some Texan: BTW, Another thing on the back of the $20 bill is no longer there, either. Our trust in GOD.

God save the monkeys!!!!
 
2006-06-27 07:05:31 PM
If they update the portrait on the back, shouldn't they update the portraits on the front of the bills to show those men are dead?

/Good enough for trees, good enough for old white men?
 
2006-06-27 07:06:32 PM
Some Texan,

You assume everyone has your beliefs. Please remember, people have different, or none, of your beliefs.

Seems to be a problem a lot of conservatives have.

Thank you.
 
2006-06-27 07:08:28 PM
i bet he went hidding in his lil panic room
 
2006-06-27 07:09:51 PM
Good night, funny tree!
 
2006-06-27 07:10:29 PM
Aaaaaaand .... it's a flame war.
 
2006-06-27 07:14:57 PM
Some Texan: BTW, Another thing on the back of the $20 bill is no longer there, either. Our trust in GOD.

Is that why he knocked the tree down?
 
2006-06-27 07:15:07 PM
Yeah, that whole In God We Trust thing? Signed into law in 1956. Thanks, Dwight. I prefer E Pluribus Unum myself.
 
2006-06-27 07:16:55 PM
jon.happyjoyfun.net
There's a dude in the bushes...OH wait...They're gone!!!
 
2006-06-27 07:16:58 PM
That's a damn shame. Think of all the pallets that tree could have made, or particle board shelving units, or disposable paper cups.

We need to start chopping down trees before storms knock them down.
 
2006-06-27 07:18:47 PM
mekkab
KARMA BURNS, EVEN IN THE RAIN!

Back in the day (the late 80s), a Berkeley towing company, after opening the doors with Slim Jims to release the brakes, would strip the cars they towed of all loose valuables inside - tapes, sunglasses, change, you name it, and even the stereo if it was worth enough. They used some of the loot to pay off the cops they were in cahoots with. They towed me once on a bum rap, too - after some fraternity guys thought it would be fun to steal the temporary "No Parking" sign set up in the street where I later parked. I took a picture of the street, sans no-parking sign, the next morning, so I managed to have the parking ticket cancelled, but I still had to pay the towing charges and lost a couple of tapes to the farkers.

Along comes the Loma Prieta quake of 1989 - two vats of chemicals stored on a high rack at said towing company tipped over, mixed on the ground and spontaneously combusted, incinerating the garage and the 15 cars stored within. Because the towing company had no permit to store the chemicals (there was no reason for them to have them - I suspect they were running a chop shop, too), their insurance company refused to pay the damages, and the two owners went broke and even spent some time in jail for endangering the general public.

/karma is my friend
 
2006-06-27 07:19:16 PM
Sounds like a perfect time to put Reagan's face on it.
 
2006-06-27 07:20:44 PM
Surely you can still use that tree for particle board, fishrockcarving.
 
2006-06-27 07:21:42 PM
Bush needs to stop masturbating.

Every time you masturbate, God strikes down a tree.
 
2006-06-27 07:26:05 PM
When the White House has Katrina Evacuee's swarming all about, holding helpless babies to the skies, Kunte Kinte style ...

..get back to Willy Nagin, he has billions of our money in his pocket.

/and don't think we're not watching him like a hawk
 
2006-06-27 07:26:13 PM
Why change the picture? It now depicts a moment in history.
 
2006-06-27 07:26:22 PM
red team GO! red team GO!
 
2006-06-27 07:28:52 PM
CindiBear: Every time you masturbate, God strikes down a tree.

Only ones that have kittens in them.

/I hope
 
2006-06-27 07:30:28 PM
What's a $20 bill again?
 
2006-06-27 07:32:50 PM
I'm not one to bash Bush.. cuz I dont care either way..

but...

I bet Bush starts a war with the trees now that they have infiltrated the white house lawn.
 
2006-06-27 07:34:17 PM
rendering portrait on back of $20 bill inaccurate

Or, viewed another way, rendering the White House unrepresentative of our currency.
 
2006-06-27 07:34:28 PM
So, is it better to do bad coke with a high denomination bill, or great coke using a complex tube made full of pennies?

/the world may never know.
 
2006-06-27 07:42:28 PM
I dunno which is funnier -- the tree falling down, or the perfectly legal $20 bill with revised picture that I'll almost get arrested for spending at a Taco Bell about two years in the future. They'll call mall security on me, handcuff me & call the cops. There will be about 30 people standing around, and I'll be the *only* one who knows the $2 bill is legit -- until the cop shows up.

He'll be like "WTF?"
They: "This guy just tried to buy food with this..."
Cop: "So?"
They: "It's a twenty dollar bill with ONLY ONE ELM TREE on the back!"
Cop: "Yeah, I can see that. What's the problem?"
They: "Well, um, there's only one elm tree. There's no such thing as a twenty dollar bill with only one elm tree."
Cop: "What in the hell are you talking about? It's perfectly legal. It's a twenty dollar bill with one elm tree."
They: "There's no twenty dollar bill with one elm tree!"
Cop: etc...

I'll get a free burrito, and one of the best laughs of my life.

/obvious
 
2006-06-27 07:43:06 PM
From another article:

"The storm also toppled a 100-year-old elm tree on the White House lawn Monday. Claudia Dickens, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, said the elm might be one of the trees depicted on the back of the $20 bill.

But she said it is also possible that the artist and the engraver took artistic license in depicting the greenery at the White House"


I'm so confused!
 
2006-06-27 07:44:54 PM
schrodinger: Sounds like a perfect time to put Reagan's face on it.

I second that. As much as I loathed Reagan, he's better than that genocidal farkhead Jackson.

/just stay away from the dime
 
2006-06-27 07:45:31 PM
Dear God,

Please adjust your sight 3 clicks...

Thanks,
Greg
 
2006-06-27 07:49:36 PM
How about just planting a new tree?
 
2006-06-27 07:49:53 PM
Trees like this just don't fall over. They are probably building tunnels underneath it. The roots were in the way so they knocked it down and claimed a storm did it. Bush does not care about the history of the tree or nature. He tramples over anything that gets in his way. He needs to go.
 
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