They strike again. First it was the utterly tasteless, casino-like new dollar coins (not to mention the hideous Jefferson on the new nickels). Now you have to be embarrassed while travelling abroad, too.I'm not opposed to new colors, designs or symbols for currency or for passports. I'm simply opposed to bad taste. Does anyone remember that terrible sitcom Mamma's House? It's the same general category, aesthetically.
Call it the trickle-down effect of six years of incompetence. Why aren't these things allowed to have some dignity? Why are we trying sell the USA with the damn passport? Commerce, to this government, is on the same plane as national institutions, if not vastly superior in both ideas and morals (which is what is so infuriating to liberals like myself...). Are we even a serious country anymore? Is that a silly question at this point?
I did a google search for "passport" and among the first images were these examples of a Yemeni and a Palestinian passport, belonging to Faud al Shobaki. From www.intelligence.org.il:
FAR more dignified. Fuck an eagle.
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Yikes, that's a whole lotta eagle.
i like the grain tucked in between the flag and the bird.
I don't remember Mamma's House. Is it related to "Big Momma's House" with Martin Lawrence?
I still have yet to see the new dollar coins, but I agree that the new Jefferson is shitty, mostly because he looks very "Children of the Damned". As for the passports -- is this an option, like getting the ivory-billed woodpecker on your license plate? Can we stick with the good old standard green if we want? I really don't want Mt. Rushmore in my passport; it's always weirded me out.
No. Mamma's House is even more awful. I used to watch it after staying up all night-- it would come on around 4 AM. Making money flashier had some justification but what is the point of this new passport. Does it even make it more difficult to produce counterfeits?
I'd also like to say that I watched Momma's House because all I had was network TV. I didn't like it or anything, I just liked infomercials less.
Jake: yeah, I was in that situation too. Although sometimes I watched the knife guy instead, because, jeezus, that show was just so awful.
Benji: of course it's not optional. And you have a green passport? What country are you from, anyway? Scandanavialand?
As for the grain thing: why don't they just make it corn? Now that would be a fitting national symbol.
I'm just glad that I don't have to renew until 2010.
"As for the grain thing: why don't they just make it corn? Now that would be a fitting national symbol."
that was a trend in some early american architecture. they replaced the laurel leaves around corinthian columns with corn.
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