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Got up ridiculously early this morning (5am LA time) and decided I'd check my hotmail seeing as I had 20 mins to kill. So, in my sleepy eyed stupor, I put one of your silly green bills into the internet machine....and then wonder why its just giving me a an hour on the timer.

Turns out I put a $10 bill in, instead of the $1 bill I thought I had. Bo**ox!

And no, it doesn't do refunds. So, all you yankee doodle dandees, answer me this, WHY IS ALL YOUR MONEY THE SAME COLOUR???

Oh, and why do you persist with $1 bills. I keep thinking I'm really well off and then I realise I have a wallet full of them.

ps America is quite cool.

Hey Vix, Well at least the Americans have good TV

How's it all going in the big apple?

*LOL* - that is wierd - guess it is because it forces the population to look at the presidents so they don't forget them (j/k)

Well thankfully we have more colours on bills here in Denmark (not that I have any so I can give you an example) - the only thing to mistake here is a 1,2,5 kr. (different size) and a 10,20 d.kr (different size) but these are coins, and a 20 d.kr is about 2 us $

[ 08-23-2001: Message edited by: Xandax ]

@Sleep- don't know yet- I am flying kangaroo air there in a couple of hours.

LA rocks though- did the tourist thing yesterday and I have lots of photos of celebrities handprints now. At least it will break the monotony of the 'ooh thats a nice beach...and another!' photo show when I get home.

Now usually, other peoples money is fascinating But I like the Aussie dollar, even if it isn't worth 2 cents american

Not sure why its all the same - I think they figure its just as expensive trying to stop counterfeiters as it is losing money that way.

But there is a *lot* you can do withh $1 bills. I mostly stuff them down women's g-strings.

Originally posted by vixen:
<STRONG><snip> At least it will break the monotony of the 'ooh thats a nice beach...and another!' photo show when I get home.</STRONG>

Hey, you knocking our beaches?

Originally posted by vixen:
<STRONG>@Sleep- don't know yet- I am flying kangaroo air there in a couple of hours.

LA rocks though- did the tourist thing yesterday and I have lots of photos of celebrities handprints now. At least it will break the monotony of the 'ooh thats a nice beach...and another!' photo show when I get home.</STRONG>

I am sure those pics of you on the beach are fantastic

So are there a lot of celebreties still stuck in conrete?

@Grunt, yo uare just so charming

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>So are there a lot of celebreties still stuck in conrete?</STRONG>

LMAO! You could charge admission, kick the ass of Bette Midler, one dollar a boot

Then Gruntie would have something else to do with his money

Originally posted by Vehemence:
<STRONG>kick the ass of Bette Midler</STRONG>

LOL I knwo i would pay a lot for this privelage. What about Barbara Striesand?

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>LOL I knwo i would pay a lot for this privelage. What about Barbara Striesand?</STRONG>

I think at least five bucks for her, there'd still be a cue a mile long

Originally posted by Vehemence:
<STRONG>I think at least five bucks for her, there'd still be a cue a mile long </STRONG>

I'm thinking more like 10 miles

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>I'm thinking more like 10 miles </STRONG>

A cue bigger than her nose? Is that possible?

Thanks for hte support Vix (sig )

Originally posted by vixen:
<STRONG>And no, it doesn't do refunds. So, all you yankee doodle dandees, answer me this, WHY IS ALL YOUR MONEY THE SAME COLOUR???
</STRONG>

Hello vixen, nice to see you!
I have actually been wondering the same, so let's hope our hamburger friends can still our curiosity.

When I've been to the US (3 times, I think? Or 4?) I've been constantly staring at the bills every time I pay for something. With my totally deficit face memory, it doesn't matter there are different presidents on them

In that case Ms Elegans, I'll swap all your Grants for an equal number of my Washingtons.

Originally posted by Vehemence:
<STRONG>A cue bigger than her nose? Is that possible? </STRONG>

Apparently.

@CE More bashing of the US tut tut, we are in an Anti American mood today

Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>Hello vixen, nice to see you!
I have actually been wondering the same, so let's hope our hamburger friends can still our curiosity.

When I've been to the US (3 times, I think? Or 4?) I've been constantly staring at the bills every time I pay for something. With my totally deficit face memory, it doesn't matter there are different presidents on them </STRONG>

Just to be helpful, I would like to point out that our pennies are a different color!

Also, I find it works better to look at the numbers on the bill rather than the faces. Most Americans don't even know who those guys are! But we all know the difference between a 1 and a 20!

Originally posted by Gwalchmai:
<STRONG>
Also, I find it works better to look at the numbers on the bill rather than the faces. Most Americans don't even know who those guys are! But we all know the difference between a 1 and a 20! </STRONG>

Ditto!

You beat me to it.

American culture is into lockstep uniformity in some respects. Our money is all green, and our street names are all generic things, like Oak, Main, 5th, Broad, etc. The French custom of naming streets after cultural avatars died a-borning in the early 19th century. Besides, whenever we do honor somebody on money or by naming means of transportation after them, it's invariably a politician, and industrialist, or a sports figure.

I'll lay odds now that Bill Gates gets his name on US money after he dies. Simply because he has so much of it, and America worships anybody who collects their favorite form of paper.