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February 25, 2010 7:05 PM

Defaced Presidents

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posted by ardgedee (25 comments total)

Also:

Where's George?
posted by Huck500 at 7:09 PM on February 25, 2010

Lady Gaga Dollar Bills
posted by mccarty.tim at 7:09 PM on February 25, 2010 [7 favorites]

Comment from some yahoo found under your Lady Gaga Dollar Bills link...

hardly a savvy artist. if the bills are in circulation it is defacing federal government property and a felony crime

That's right folks if you doodle on a dollar then Uncle Sam'll put you in the slammer.
Art crime is my favorite flavor of crime. Followed closely by fashion crimes.
posted by Babblesort at 7:15 PM on February 25, 2010

My friends and I used amuse ourselves by puttting a tasteful little corncob pipe in George's mouth on every One we spent. Feels kind of weaksauce now.
posted by Rock Steady at 7:18 PM on February 25, 2010

Why so commonwealth?
posted by Avenger at 7:54 PM on February 25, 2010

The one thing I didn't see in that pool is the one trick that every savvy Canadian knows: Five-dollar bills just beg to be Spocked.
posted by bicyclefish at 7:56 PM on February 25, 2010 [4 favorites]

"I think the country will remember Wilfred Laurier well."
posted by Sys Rq at 7:59 PM on February 25, 2010

I found a quarter on the ground once. Somebody had painted it red and I thought that meant it must be lucky, and I kept it in my wallet for five years until I caved and gave it to a vending machine for a few lousy cardboard-like Baked Lays.

Maybe I'll atone for that bad decision this weekend by making over a couple Georges (I'm thinking beauty pageant hair and makeup) and sending them into the world, to bring luck to other irrationally superstitious people.
posted by sallybrown at 8:12 PM on February 25, 2010

Much better than the ass pennies Flickr group.
posted by munchingzombie at 8:12 PM on February 25, 2010 [4 favorites]

5,271,009
posted by ovvl at 8:12 PM on February 25, 2010

I must really be an idiot. I have been trying to use that Flickr Browse gizmo with the two thumbnails and the left and right arrows for at least five years, and I still can't figure the bloody thing out. There aren't many things that appear on my laptop screen that make me more cranky than that stupid, stupid gizmo. Is there a manual somewhere? What's wrong with a simple Next and Prev button??? I clicked on the first Dolla Bill image and the browse thingy says 'you are at the last photo' WTF?
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 8:32 PM on February 25, 2010 [2 favorites]

Mei's lost sandal: “I clicked on the first Dolla Bill image and the browse thingy says 'you are at the last photo' WTF?”

Yeah, that's always annoyed me, too. I guess it's because the last photo that was uploaded appears at the top of the screen (since it's a photo feed.) Just go through it backwards - nothing wrong with that.
posted by koeselitz at 8:40 PM on February 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

My favorite here is the SCARY WASHINGTON SPIDER.
posted by koeselitz at 8:42 PM on February 25, 2010 [1 favorite]

???
posted by koeselitz at 9:01 PM on February 25, 2010

Ooh, this is fun. Thanks for the post.
posted by nickyskye at 9:21 PM on February 25, 2010

The trick I always used to do was turning George Washington into a mushroom. The best part is, you can just unfold him again afterward, so it's not defacing federal government property and a felony crime argh blargh etc. I

I had a trusty I GREW HEMP stamp some years ago. I'm sure that's a felony crime, too... but I dunno which one's guilty, me or George!
posted by vorfeed at 9:38 PM on February 25, 2010

I must really be an idiot. I have been trying to use that Flickr Browse gizmo with the two thumbnails and the left and right arrows for at least five years, and I still can't figure the bloody thing out.

Haha I thought I was alone in my inability to navigate the pages! The left picture goes previous, the right picture goes next. If you mouse over it says this. (I still manage to end up in bizarre places anyway.)
posted by Solon and Thanks at 9:44 PM on February 25, 2010

I love this one. Not because the art's any good, but for the comment:

Awesome! Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Crappy Barts, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

That's actually a real group, but I'm tempted to apply that technique myself. "Hi! I'm an admin for 'stupid coy kissy-faced pictures', we've love to have this added."
posted by Solon and Thanks at 9:49 PM on February 25, 2010 [3 favorites]

>: "Hi! I'm an admin for 'stupid coy kissy-faced pictures', we've love to have this added."

I've gotten that, but it was for "That CRAZY Duckface!". I declined, because a. the duckface was ironic and b. i have some respect for the people i photograph.
posted by dunkadunc at 10:25 PM on February 25, 2010

defacing federal government property and a felony crime

There is so much about the side of the US character that is R-O-N-G wrong in this statement.

That someone feels the need to comment about this is so...small. Like when I'm driving my old car on its (legal) period plates and a neck-bearded 50-year-old pulls up next to me, rolls down his Subaru's window and says "your tabs are 43 years out of date, I bet you'll have a hard time explaining that to the cop who pulls you over." What kind of miserable life must you lead to worry about scribbles on currency or old cars with old plates on them?

That's the local level. At the "national" level, it says much (and none of it good) about our character that we have laws making scribbling on currency a crime, or that every year some blowhard introduces a flag-burning amendment.

If you can't poke fun at yourself or take a little ribbing, you're a fucking douche.

Fun set, some of the bills were pretty amazing. I even laughed out loud at a couple of them.
posted by maxwelton at 3:23 AM on February 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

defacing federal government property and a felony crime

maxwelton: There is so much about the side of the US character that is R-O-N-G wrong in this statement.

Well, the original statement is quite wrong, too; the law prevents you from shaving your gold, or to gold plate your nickels and pass them off as $5 gold coins, or bleach a $1 and reprint them at higher denominations, or to melt down your pre-1982 pennies for scrap copper value. Pressing pennies, making altered art, heck, even shredding your money for fun (the government likes that; they get to keep the $1 you paid for that $1 bill) isn't inherently illegal unless its intent is to re-use that altered money to subvert the US monetary system.
posted by AzraelBrown at 5:55 AM on February 26, 2010

Speaking of "crime" in seventh grade I had somehow torn a dollar in half. A friend grabbed one half and ran up to the lunch lady at the register and asked if he could get 50 cents for it. Somehow that turned into both of us getting a brief lecture from a vice-principal about how that was possibly a crime and to never try it again.


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The art on these dollars can be pretty imaginative and interesting, but in the back of my mind, I can't shake the feeling, "But that's a dollar! Spend it, save it (for spending later) don't draw on it!"

I also jump for joy when I find pennies and small change on sidewalks.
posted by Atreides at 6:52 AM on February 26, 2010

I've recently started using dollar bills to write little notes to myself (you know, short grocery lists, books I might want to read, stuff like that). Maybe I should start adding some doodles.
posted by box at 10:07 AM on February 26, 2010

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posted by Rhaomi at 5:54 PM on February 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

If I still used currency, I'd be all over this.
posted by Eideteker at 8:24 AM on February 28, 2010