De-God Your Money

[statichaos]

We have people we generally don't recognise on our notes.

So do we, but that has more to do with our education system than their obscurity.

[owtth]

I think it is still illegal to deface cash in the UK, but nothing happened to The KLF when they burnt a million quid.

[Bella Fortuna]

We have people we generally don't recognise on our notes.

So do we, but that has more to do with our education system than their obscurity.

[Pappa]

I think it is still illegal to deface cash in the UK, but nothing happened to The KLF when they burnt a million quid.

I don't know specifically about paper money, but I know the law that made defacing coins illegal was repealed in the 80s. Those machines you get for pressing a design into pennies in museums and other attractions are always labelled with info about the repeal.

[owtth]

I think it is still illegal to deface cash in the UK, but nothing happened to The KLF when they burnt a million quid.

I don't know specifically about paper money, but I know the law that made defacing coins illegal was repealed in the 80s. Those machines you get for pressing a design into pennies in museums and other attractions are always labelled with info about the repeal.

Now that you mention it there may have been something legalise about a machine I used in liverpool to make a Beatle coiny thing, still, can't see anyone doing hard time over a penny guv'.

[joelbct]

I just de-Goded $128.

Although on a few of those twenties I merely crossed out God and wrote Zeus above it.

lol
good thinking....

Now to head down to Kinko's and order a red rubber stamp "Ø" precisely the size of the 'god' on our currency

What ever happened to the First Amendment Establishment clause anyway?

[Bella Fortuna]

Ooh, a stamp... there's a good idea. Until then, Sharpie it is!

[charlou]

I'd use a hole punch.

[Pappa]

I'd use a hole punch.

[Faithfree]

I'd use a hole punch.

holy money ---> holey money

[JimC]

I'd use a hole punch.

holy money ---> holey money

Holy Greenbacks, Batman!

[statichaos]

Unfortunately, while stores will generally accept mildly defaced cash, they will usually not accept mutilated bills.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Unfortunately, while stores will generally accept mildly defaced cash, they will usually not accept mutilated bills.

Which is bad news for abused ducks!

[orpheus]

Unfortunately, while stores will generally accept mildly defaced cash, they will usually not accept mutilated bills.

I remember reading that torn bills were legal tender as long as the serial number was intact.

[orpheus]

It's illegal to destroy anything with the queen's image on it including money and stamps, but it's also illegal to die in the House of Commons, so what's illegal in law and what's illegal in practice are two differnt things.

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I'd be soooo tempted to do that - just to be an asshole.