You got change for a nine?
The guys from HillBuzz report:
[W]hile scoping out the Southport, Clarke, and Belmont shops for the travel guides of Lincoln Park/Lakeview, we went into dozens of tee shirt, poster, novelty, and comic book shops all around town today.
The great majority of them had Dr. Utopia’s smiling face on a nine dollar bill taped to the registers.
These are those joke currencies that sometimes have the Statue of Liberty on a Million Dollar Bill. In the 80s, we saw Reagan on joke million dollar bills … and in the 90s, we often saw Hillary Clinton on joke Millions … in novelty shops (where they were probably meant to terrify Republicans) or in weird futuristic movies like Pluto Nash.
But we’ve never seen fake “nine dollar bills” before and have absolutely no idea if there’s a significance to that.
This is not, of course, counterfeiting: there is no real $9 bill, so making a fake one does not violate the counterfeiting statutes.
I’m not quite sure what to make of this. Nine, as I noted at HillBuzz, is three squared, but it’s not like we’re seeing, say, Rahm Emanuel on a three-spot.
Maybe this telegraphs Obama’s future intentions: the day before he leaves the White House, he nominates himself for the Supreme Court.
HillBuzz »
11 October 2009 · 7:34 pm
Great thought…he does want to be a SCOTUS Justice…he wants to be Chief Justice, actually…that or Sec General of the UN.
Can someone nomination him or herself for SCOTUS? Interesting question.
CGHill »
11 October 2009 · 7:42 pm
The Constitution is silent on who is qualified to sit on the Court; the President can nominate anyone he wants, and the Senate shall advise and/or consent as they desire.
I suppose we’ll have to see if there’s a vacancy at the appropriate time.
McGehee »
11 October 2009 · 9:04 pm
The joke bills I remember most clearly are the Bill Clinton $3 bills — usually showing him making a gesture that some computer hardware outfit once used in an ad to illustrate how simple it is to set up their device (you just plug it in).
Obviously the intent of using that image on the three-dollar bill has nothing to do with Microsoft’s idea of “plug and play.”