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Caption This for 08/08/14

Posted August 08, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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08/08/2014 4:54 PM

Please, can I have this changed into small bills? Nothing bigger than a twenty.

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08/09/2014 1:52 AM

Sure, if you have a large ship.

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08/09/2014 6:43 AM

teller: "Here, use my scissors."
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08/08/2014 4:55 PM

... is what a loaf of bread is gonna cost unless the worlds manages to pull it's head out of it's a$$.

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08/08/2014 5:17 PM

This is why Zimbabwe has the highest concentration of millionaires in the world.
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08/08/2014 5:54 PM

What the kids in neighboring Botswana use when they play 'Monopoly'.

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08/08/2014 6:01 PM

"One hundred trillion here, one hundred trillion there... pretty soon, you're talking real money."

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08/08/2014 6:28 PM

Dear Mr. CR4,

Our agents have discovered that a Dr. Dakarai Muchanetaa a very rich man in our country has died that you are a long lost, distant relative of his and he has willed you a large sum of money, in fact the sum is 99 hundred trillion dollars.

The money will be transferred into your bank account immediately we receive the name, address and phone number of the institution, along with the account numbers of the checking and savings accounts. The sum is far too large to deposit into a single account.

Time is urgent, as the account must be liquidated by Monday, August 11th, 2014 or it will be taken by the government.

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08/09/2014 4:10 AM

Where do I sign up?

Kris

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08/11/2014 1:12 PM

Great Answer, I can not tell you how many of my friends have e-mailed me asking for a transfer because they lost their wallets in a foreign country,,, wink wink, Glad to see that I am not the only one................

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08/08/2014 8:24 PM

Actually I have a bunch of these, but they're covered with some kind of black ink or something. Anybody know where I can get that magic black ink remover?

Thanks!

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08/09/2014 7:13 AM

Black ink?

Oh, that. That's just to cover up the red ink.

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08/12/2014 6:54 AM

Doesn't LynDoor IndustriesTM sell that stuff? Or maybe the KrisDel CorporationTM? No? Oh, never mind.

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08/08/2014 10:50 PM

More proof that Zimbabweans think Austin Powers was a cultural documentary.

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08/09/2014 4:09 AM

I want my GOOZ card and I want it now

Del

(the GOOZ card (get out of Zimbabwe) was a running gag many moons ago on a thread far far away... about the time of the mysterious disappearance of a cast iron bath)

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08/12/2014 4:43 AM

What cast iron bath?

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08/09/2014 4:12 AM

Hey dude...

If that's the Reserve Bank.. just think what the First Team Bank must be like... wow...

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08/09/2014 5:54 AM

We all know the Weimaraner Republic went to the dogs over inflation. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.

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08/09/2014 6:51 AM

"If you can count your millions, you are not a billionaire." - J. Paul Getty

"If you can count your trillions, you're not a gozillionaire." - Forrest Gump
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08/09/2014 7:28 AM

Oh, those?

I just use them to light my Cuban cigars...
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08/11/2014 3:25 PM

The ink was made in China, so better check you lead levels.

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08/09/2014 7:58 AM

The rocks are worth more than this note, now.

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08/09/2014 8:17 AM

Yeah, they printed this money before they discovered paper & scissors.
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08/10/2014 8:48 AM

If we print up enough money, everyone will be rich!
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08/10/2014 7:05 PM

Reserve Bank?

I make it a point to never make deals or talk to second string people or institutions

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08/11/2014 9:22 AM

Why trouble with security features. When its worthless no one will want it anyway.

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08/13/2014 11:34 AM

New, uncirculated 2008 $100T notes are going for 15 bucks on Amazon. As these notes are the highest denomination ever printed in the history of money, their value to collectors will only increase over time.
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08/13/2014 11:40 AM

We trust you have laid in a stockpile.

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08/13/2014 12:18 PM

Not a stockpile, but I did buy 500 in 2009 for U$1.23 apiece and sold them (all but one) last year for U$7500.
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08/13/2014 12:21 PM

This is why you started this thread. You're manipulating a market for the next 500 scraps of paper.

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08/13/2014 12:23 PM

Does that make Kaplin my co-conspirator or just an accessory?

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Well done, then. Just had to keep that souvenir, didn't you?

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Ironically, this could easily be more than they would have been worth at the entry point to circulation.

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Yep.
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08/13/2014 11:52 AM

Yeah, they'll increase in value...

Just like the gazillion Mark Nazi postage stamps in my collection that have skyrocketed in value over the last 60 years...

To at least $0.25 US each.

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08/13/2014 11:54 AM

Hookers wife: " ahh yes, I've been meaning to tell you,... well you see, I needed to mail a letter last week, and I was looking for stamps and well...."

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08/13/2014 12:00 PM

Ideal when mailing those late birthday cards...
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08/11/2014 10:41 AM

Well,,, everyone needs a little pocket change, don't they??

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08/11/2014 11:27 AM

Did you say these are printed on recycled toilet paper? Shoot, here I thought those were rocks!!
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08/11/2014 2:29 PM

You have no clue !: The rock on top is an indicator of how the bearer's face should look when owning such ammount of money (something like those hot sauce bottles that show one, two or more little chilis).

The second rock is, for some reason the abreviation of liter (Lt.).

The third rock is a national icon: the wild break-dancing beaver.

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08/12/2014 9:31 AM

"The price to save the earth from total destruction is...ONE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS! What? I didn't specify whose dollars? All I can get for that is a Milky Way and a Dr. Pepper? I change my mind! I change my mind! What? It's too late? How does it feel to get ****** up my what? Oh, the irony!"

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08/13/2014 11:59 AM

Pretty soon Zimbabweans will be the best experts at exponential notation. Ya just gotta do something when 10,000 zeros won't fit on a bill.

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08/13/2014 12:01 PM

Pretty soon Zimbabweans will be the best experts at exponential notation.

So since the U.S. has a 'C' note, would that make the Zimbabweans have a 'X' note.

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08/13/2014 12:03 PM

Hello, I will be stable for millions of years.

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08/14/2014 9:19 AM

140 dB$.
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08/23/2014 6:52 PM

''Oh, so that's how (Washington) is planning to fund Social Security...''

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