On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:49, Michael Ryan Byrd wrote: > I know a lot of us UUG'ers are employed in the food service industry* or at > clothing retail businesses**, so in case you haven't heard, the new $20 bill > comes out today:
Well, it is certainly an improvement over the old bill, as far as appearance goes (and difficultness to counterfit), but it's still way uglier than the Euro banknotes. The new Canadian 5's and 10' are also very beautiful (so if there's no real monetary value in them, at least there is artistic value ;). Having grown up using colored banknotes, I have always found American currency to be incredibly drab and boring. Many people make off-hand comments about monopoly money, but those people have never really seen currency other than their own USD. Hardly is it monopoly money. Colored bills are incredibly detailed and intricate. Very impressive. By the way, I collect currency from any country I visit (or where friends visit). Usually I bring home 30 to 50 dollars worth of currency. The larger bills are always the prettiest. Of course my largest numbered bill so far is a 1000000 Turkish Lyra bill, worth almost 4 dollars when I bought it, now worth 50 cents. My other favorite bill is a Jordanian 20 Dinar bill, which was at the time as about 26 dollars (I believe it is artificially valued against the dollar -- I don't think it's a truly convertable currency like the Euro). Very pretty bill. Anyway it's good to think that I have helped in some small way to reduce the money supply of every country I've visited which will in turn reduce inflation. :) Last bits of trivia: More USD cash (as in banknotes) circulates outside the US than inside. Thus the Federal Reserve could at most buy back maybe 40% of the cash money supply (which is okay, since most of the money supply that matters is now electronic). Also, in Germany, 90% of all 20-Euro bills has trace amounts of cocaine on them. In the US, a significant percentage of our bills (mainly 20s and 10s) also has cocaine on them. Also, in any given country, 90% of all bills in circulation everywhere contain thriving colonies of bacteria, including e coli in some Asian countries, motivating banks in Hong Kong to sterilize bank notes with heat inside the ATMs. Michael > > http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/files/Bill_glossies_white.pdf > > (mis)informationally yours, > > MR Byrd > > * Halcrow works at Arbys, Probst is night-manager at Carl's Jr. and I work the > swing shift at Denny's. > > ** The Fugal brothers work at Gen-X, the McNabbs all work in the BYU Food Court, > and Art serves up the fish and chips at PG's Purple Turtle. > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
