If I was paid $1 for every blog post on this site, I could theoretically cash it all in and get a big 'ol one thousand dollar bill. That's right. The unlikely moose blog hit the big 1-o-o-o. (Yesterday's post was #1000.)
I'm rather disappointed by the back of the 1000 dollar bill. If you're gonna leave a big empty space in the middle of the bill with "The United States of America" and "ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS" in the middle, then fill that space up with the text. Make "U.S.A" and "ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS" as big as possible as to say, "HEY! This is the freaking U.S.A. and this is a freaking ONE THOUSAND dollar bill and you're gonna make sure you know it!"
Or just put a nice illustration of some famous landmark in the U.S. back there. Or a famous event in U.S. history like the lunar landing. Mount Rushmore would be cool. It'd be a good way to get all the famous prezzies who already have their images on money onto one bill together. Or just go gangbusters and put all the U.S. Presidents on the back.
Link to higher res image of one thousand bill here. (Don't get any ideas.)
Which president is that on the front? I can't read the name and I don't recognize the face.
Posted by: Mark R on Jun 27, 08 | 9:27 am
I agree with you that there should be some sort of image on the back. While Mount Rushmore sounds like a great idea, it was only 15 years old when they retired the one-thousand dollar bill. (Mount Rushmore was completed in 1925, and the bill was retired in 1940)
As far as the text goes. I disagree with making the "United States of America" and "ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS" as big as possible. That would become too tacky. This is one thousand bucks, bro. This ain't no cheesey thing. This dollar bill is one of the highest class. Let the text be dignified. It doesn't have to yell. It wants to be classy.
Oh, and congrats on your 1,000th post. I wonder how many M&M's are in a bag. I could give you a couple bags of M&M's as a congratulatory gift. Oh wait, you should get something that is EM related. Hmmm...
I recently posted my 4,000th entry. I mis-read your entry as 10,000 [obviously] and was commenting that I would need to write about 6,000 more to catch up to you ... but you're 3,000 behind me ... I think :P
wow. that's a lot of words and phrases and characters and punctuation. congrats!
Posted by: shout on Jun 28, 08 | 4:52 pm
A woman in chicago tried to deposit two of these $1,000 bills. They were the actual authentic bills. The bank didn't accept them though. The moronic part of it all though, is that each bill is worth around $4,500.
source: http://chicagoist.com/2008/07/10/woman_deposits_1000_bills.php
