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George Washington's Spoon Is Too Big

Jesse Walker | 10.15.2009 10:45 PM

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Defaced currency: a gallery.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Playa Manhattan   16 years ago

    Surprised that there were a few $20 bills in there

    1. Suki   16 years ago

      Maybe Joe D. is trying to keep his materials costs down?

      😉

  2. Hugh Akston   16 years ago

    Yeah but that Sparta $20 was worth it.

    1. KyleG   16 years ago

      Indeed!

    2. Hazel Meade   16 years ago

      That was my favorite. Laughed out loud.

  3. Brad   16 years ago

    MY SPOON IS TOO BIG!

    1. wingnutx   16 years ago

      Don Herzfeldt is a genius.

      1. thew83   16 years ago

        Agreed.

        1. Nooge   16 years ago

          Before I even clicked on the comments, I was wondering how many before the first Herzfeldt reference.

          1. Jesse Walker   16 years ago

            I was wondering how many before the first Herzfeldt reference.

            I was hoping the post's title would provoke a "I AM A BANANA."

            1. Nooge   16 years ago

              At least it wasn't "MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!"

  4. Kryten   16 years ago

    Expensive art:

    http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/money4602.jpg

  5. ?   16 years ago

    Does anyone else have some kind of bad defaced bill karma?

    I've only ever been passed singles rubber-stamped with the nonsense-summary of some schizo's crusade against the county for his sister getting raped in the workhouse (I gathered), and probably the same guy looking for who shot his brother Reggie for "$2 and a pager" back in b-boy days.

    I think I even got the same bill twice, once. Twice.

    If any of you know Jennifer Love Hewitt, I could use a house call. Hook a haunted brother up.

  6. G Mc   16 years ago

    Haha this is great stuff... and a potentially brilliant idea.

    Forget gold, turn your dollars into priceless works of art! Inflation be damned.

  7. j.i.am   16 years ago

    I clicked the GIRL link first. Bad j.

  8. Episiarch   16 years ago

    TRON Lincoln is gold.

  9. Xeones   16 years ago

    Washington as Cesar Romero's Joker? I just about fell out.

  10. P Brooks   16 years ago

    I laughed out loud at the Lincoln "Headshot".

    Does that mean I'm a bad person?

    1. brotherben   16 years ago

      Nope. Everybody likes the moneyshot.

    2. robc   16 years ago

      Too soon.

  11. P Brooks   16 years ago

    MY SPOON IS TOO BIG!

    Perhaps your head is too small.

  12. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    Customer: "How much for this book? Oh, $18.99? Here's a twenty."

    Clerk: "Sir, this bill is defaced."

    Customer: "Defaced? This! Is! Sparta!" [Kicks clerk into a conveniently placed pit]

  13. eddie   16 years ago

    Great stuff. Wish I had that kind of talent.

    Others, similar, more polished technique (imho): http://www.toxel.com/inspirati.....by-atypyk/

    Related, very different, three-dimensional artwork laser-etched into stacks of dollar bills: http://hypebeast.com/2009/10/s.....ion-recap/

  14. Our simply   16 years ago

    Maybe Joe D. is trying to keep his materials costs down?

  15. Abercrombie and Fitch   15 years ago

    good!

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