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First I'm giving warnings about bogus email and tonight's it's a nag on the subject of Counterfeiting: But It Would Be Wrong! What the fuck, I'm turning into Xan Landers here.

But I know you want one of these bills. I know once you get one (I have no idea where they came from, do some googling yourself for chrissakes) you will clutch it to your bosom and treasure it. You will fondle it, giggling, and stroke it out of pure righteous humor.

That's kinky, but it's fine. Just, after you do that and get the paper all soft and fuzzy like, you don't stick it into your wallet by mistake:

(via ABCnews.go.com)

GREENSBURG, Pa. Sept. 1, 2004 — State police aren't laughing about the person who allegedly passed some funny money a $200 bill with President Bush's picture on it at a women's clothing store.

Police on Wednesday charged Deborah Trautwine, 51, with theft by deception, for allegedly passing a bogus $200 bill at the Fashion Bug store in Hempfield Plaza on Aug. 22. There is no such denomination, even without Bush's picture on it.

Kinda like there is no such thing as a Bush healthcare policy, or a Bush plan to bring home our people from Iraq or...but I interrupt our story.

Among other things, the bill had a hokey serial number DUBYA4U2001 and didn't bear the signature of the secretary of the treasury. Instead, the bill was "signed" by Ronald Reagan, whose title was "Political Mentor" and by Bush's father, who is listed as "Campaign Advisor and Mentor."

The back of the bill was even goofier.

Kinda like the Bush energy plan, or the Bush economic program for jobs or the....but I'm interrupting again. My bad--

It depicted the White House with several signs erected on the lawn, including those reading "We Like Broccoli" and "USA Deserves A Tax Cut."

Okay, it ain't Monty Python's dead parrot sketch. But I thought it was worth a giggle just to wake you up after Cheney's speech. You sleep sitting up like that all night your neck will hurt like hell in the morning.