...18 USC 475 prescribes criminal penalties against anyone who "designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument; obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever"...
Most of you kids are too young to remember, but it used to be that you couldn't open a phone book (which was a book they used to hand out with everyone's phone number in it) at a pay phone (which were these phones you had to put change in to use) in downtown Seattle (which was this collection of local stores not connected by a mall) without running into these creepy mimeographed (which was a way of copying before copiers) sheets of bible verses. You'd find them in books from the Central Library also.
I always wondered who did that, and what kind of life they lived. I imagined them living in a dark little studio apartment on First Hill or in Belltown with nothing but a black and white TV and a mimeograph machine
Apparently there's another version of this printed specifically to screw over restaurant servers. One side looks like a hundred bucks, the other side says "Looking for a tip?" and then goes on about Jebus or something. I heard of this at the "Waiter Rant" blog, where a few different servers reported getting them.
Be wary of the man who offers to buy you cocktails with bills that have things about Jesus on them.
And...Stay Thirsty My Friends.
I always wondered who did that, and what kind of life they lived. I imagined them living in a dark little studio apartment on First Hill or in Belltown with nothing but a black and white TV and a mimeograph machine