In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

"Network with Peers" = "Drinking at the airport bar with faculty who want to bore you with their inflated sense of self importance."

 

Speaking of $3 notes, here's what the current one in the Cook Islands looks like (the previous one was pink, which seems more appropriate for the "queer as a $3 bill" saying; I have one of each):

 

It's just a matter of time before one of the MAGAs complains about a merchant not taking one of the bills.

 

There used to be a saying about somebody being so crooked, if you gave him a $9 bill, he could make change in 3's.

 

"Like a politician kissin’ babies, hustlin’ votes
And baby, you’re just a three dollar
Baby, you’re just a three dollar
Baby, you’re just a three, you’re just a three dollar bill."

(Mac Rebbenack)

 

Those Cook Island notes are muy cool! But $3 is an odd amount, usually you see currency in 1, sometimes 2, 5, 10, etc.

Pretty much every country has more interesting looking currency notes than the US. My favorites were the Dutch Guilders, but the Euros aren't half bad. Canada got rid of the $10 bill with the kids playing pond hockey

 

The Cooks have $1, 2, and 5 coins - all of which are unusual in one way or another - the $5 coin is quite large. The $2 coin is triangular (photo below is from wikipedia).

I use money (specifically notes) from around the world in one of my classes as a first day lesson on culture. The images & people countries put on their money are symbolically important and help reveal cultural values. I purposely give an all-female group money I have from Sweden that features females (I have one note of an opera singer Jenny Lind, the one in "The Greatest Showman", and one featuring an author). I then have them compare whatever country they are looking at to the people and images on American money.

Needless to say American money is all about politics, not science (Charles Darwin in England, Pierre and Marie Curie on the old French francs), the arts (Belgian francs were magnificent for this - including Adolphe Sax and my favorite Rene Magritte, among others), explorers (Sir Edmund Hillary in NZ), cultural myths ('Ina and the shark in the Cook Islands), sports (Samoa rugby 7s team), feminists (Kate Sheppard in NZ), indigenous leaders (Sir Apirana Ngata in NZ), etc. as you find elsewhere.

One generality is that countries will economically support what they value and you can see what they value on their money.

 

I have an old Iraqi dinar with Saddam Hussein's face on it.

 

I have a Yugoslavian bank note that depicts the "happy worker," a guy with a shovel and a coal furnace in the background.

So is Britain and all the other Commonwealth countries that had Queen Elizabeth on their money going to re-issue them with King Charles? Maybe it's time for the far-off ex-colonies who still have the Queen to revamp their money with something more relevant to their won culture.

 

An old tradition is to put your head of state on your money and for Commonwealth Realms like Australia and Canada, Charles is the head of state. For republics that are just part of the British Commonwealth like Nigeria and India, he is not.

 

The Bank of England already has issued some with the King. NZ will start having him on some coins beginning next year.

 

Hard to top this https://t.co/X7oWeydnfj

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 14, 2024

 

The plot thickens pic.twitter.com/VK5TOp8Z3I

— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) August 15, 2024

 

1823868553633603805 is not a valid tweet id

 

“Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor,” CNN reports.

“Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict pornography and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on ‘religious liberty’ instead of ‘Christian nation-ism.'”

“But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/poli...t-2025-trump-secret-recording-invs/index.html

 

Must be very helpful for blind people. I wonder if that's why they made them in different shapes and sizes.

 

Nitpick: Consigliere has to be a made guy. Only made guys can rise through the ranks. Pete would be a perfect consigliere as he'd be an advisor.

Source: Kind of obsessed with underworld stuff, given that a good chunk of my family was involved with it at one point.

I was asking more out of curiosity and maybe seeing your point. I was trying to leave out the McKinsey and Ivy League part out, because even without those credentials he still comes across as a suit. I see Buttigieg, I see a lot of the higher ups I had to deal with when I was with the sports team and with my most recent employer. A lot of them weren't Ivy grads, but places like U of M, if that makes sense.

That said, I do see his positives too, but he does not however, have a personality that goes far. And if anything, he's better behind a desk.

I've got a lot of respect for voice actors. Many years ago at my school, I got to meet one Rob Paulsen. He voiced characters like Raphael in TMNT, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, and much more. It was quite impressive to see him run the gamut of voices in person. He'd do his Pinky voice, switch to a surfer dude voice, then to a nerdy kind of voice within 30 seconds of each other.

Also, he's a gent. Hilarious too.

 

The Euro bills had fake "monuments", because which ones would you choose from the EU with epic monuments that can fit the Euro bills ( ), without offending every other country, which monuments werenot chosen.
So a Dutch town had the bright idea to appropriate several of those "monuments" and made them theirs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobridges_Spijkenisse

We Dutch do miss our beautiful banknotes though.

 

Narf!

 

Zort!

 

Plan 2025 from outer space..

These leaked Project 2025 training videos aren't helping conservatives beat the "weird" allegations pic.twitter.com/7p1HZhZ36R

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 15, 2024