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WCDT Strips 3356-3360 (21st to 25th November 2016)
Jakk Frost:
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--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 23 Nov 2016, 08:08 ---I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.
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Probably because the expression refers to a three dollar bill, at least as I've heard it.
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Oh I've heard that one too. I've heard both.
Skewbrow:
Morris & Goscinny ran with that joke. The oldest of the Dalton brothers (the gang Lucky Luke was battling), not the sharpest knife, served time for an unsuccessful counterfeit attempt. You guessed it, he printed 3 dollar bills.
Case:
--- Quote from: Charlotte Zane on 23 Nov 2016, 08:17 ---Okay, there's a painfully simple misunderstanding here that would give me an aneurysm if I didn't make an account to quickly clarify.
"Pissed" is an entirely separate word from "pisses", and only the former is used in American English to denote a state of anger. To denote someone's anger, they can be "pissed", but it cannot "piss" them. You can be pissed off, and it can piss you off, but you can only be pissed, as it cannot simply "piss" you.
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Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 23 Nov 2016, 08:08 ---I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.
On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing. (As has been evidenced before.)
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We only started making them in the 2000s.
The phrases has been updated to "As phony as a three dollar bill".
Stoutfellow:
Then there's the story of the city slicker who decided to exploit the hayseeds. He made some counterfeit eighteen-dollar bills, then drove out to the country. He asked the first farmer he met if he could make change; the farmer looked at the bill and said, "Sure! You want two nines, or three sixes?"
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