A while ago, I complained about the then upcoming new $20 bills... Well not only have I not changed one bit now that I got my hands on some of them, I've actually decided that I really just don't like them one bit. I got a stack of them from an ATM a few days ago... I remember reading that they were being printed on the same paper/fabric the old bills have used. They certianlly don't feel that way. I've had crisp new bills before, and they simply don't feel like these do. These things actually feel like monopoly money... They're too smooth, and the one I have been crumpleing up on and off has yet to soften up like I'd expect it to. I'm considering giveing it a bath in hot water to see if that will take the edge off it. Am I going to do this to all the new $20's I get?... No, not likely... This one is getting the torture test to see if its ever going to feel "right" to me after they get out in circulation for a while...
As for the anti-counterfitting aspect of the bills, I'm pretty sure that I heard they have already found some fakes out there on the radio... I wish I had been paying more attention when I heard that, wherever that was... Now of course, if I was going to counterfit them, now would be the time to do it, before everyone is used to what they look like... You wouldn't have to get the colors perfect, since nobody is going to have a gut feeling that something is wrong with the bill... Anybody out there going to count the little 20's on the back?... I think not...
And one more thing... Damn, if these things aren't ugly...
I don't even want to know how much the government spent on this goofy idea....
Posted by Backstage at October 31, 2003 06:59 PM