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chungy
Posted on 03-18-08 08:55 AM (rev. 4 of 03-18-08 10:46 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 80549


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www.wheresgeorge.com

I founds this site a couple days ago (via Wikipedia...), and it's a fairly interesting prospect. The idea is fairly simple: enter paper money into the database, mark it (most popular seems to be rubber stamps), and use it per normal. Then you hope someone will notice the URL on the dollar bill, go to the site, and enter it again (called a hit). I imagine a lot of people will ignore such a marking, but it's still quite fun.

Here's an example bill that I marked (yeah, I did all 77 in pen I will buy a stamp to do it):
$2 for wheresgeorge

For those people not native to the United States, there's Where's Willy? for Canadian paper money, and a bunch of other sites for other currencies (including Euros, Swedish kronor, etc).

In the system so far, I've entered 77 bills totaling $199:
BY DENOMINATION:
$2 bills - 57 (big fan of $2 )
$1 bills - 15
$20 bills - 3
$5 bills - 2

BY SERIES:
2003A - 66
2003 - 4
2004 - 3
2006 - 3
2001 - 1

STAR NOTES:
One $20 bill, series 2004

BY FEDERAL RESERVE BANK:
San Francisco (L) - 65
Chicago (G) - 5
Richmond (E) - 3
New York (B) - 2
Boston (A) - 1
Dallas (K) - 1

BY BLOCK LETTER (last serial number letter):
* - 1
A - 59
B - 5
D - 1
E - 2
F - 1
G - 3
I - 3
M - 1
Q - 1

BY ZIP CODE:
89199, Las Vegas Nevada - 77 (I'm here until April 3)

Ailure
Posted on 03-18-08 10:34 AM (rev. 3 of 03-18-08 10:54 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 80550

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I should check if the two dollar bill I have is registered there.

I should have registered my 500 SEK bill to that Swedish site, and meh... I used to have allot of Euro bills last month. XD

Funny in germany last month actually. I had three kind of bills with me, USD, SEK and Euro. The USD was accidently brought there... xD (Happened to be a 2 USD bill as well)

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IIIMarckus
Posted on 03-19-08 05:27 AM Link | Quote | ID: 80618


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Ha... my mom found this site a while ago, but I'd completely forgotten it. I registered a new account just now and entered the $9 that is currently in my wallet.

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Flan
Posted on 03-19-08 12:36 PM Link | Quote | ID: 80637


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Stop defiling currency.

DSGatling
Posted on 03-21-08 04:56 AM Link | Quote | ID: 80718


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lol blank cell
I found this a long time ago. I got a one dollar bill a few years back that had the mark on it. I went to the site and thought it was an interesting little idea but I never bothered with it.

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jargon
Posted on 04-02-08 05:51 AM Link | Quote | ID: 81347


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i saw the "where's george" thing since like fall 1998.

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GreyMaria
Posted on 04-02-08 06:18 AM (rev. 2 of 04-02-08 06:19 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 81351

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Where's George isn't very new. Or personally, very interesting either.

Also, jargon is going to be banned until February 33rd, 2090 for being a dick and embedding a rickroll in his header. Though the song is kinda interesting.

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