[Bad~Rodeo]

You need a nap, don't you...

[Dane]

I wonder how long it took this guy to figure out to make the precise folds to make innocuous trees into smoke.

Oh well people are always looking for a conspiracy. I bet you could fold the Mona Lisa in certain ways to make it look like the burning twin towers.

Anyway this should get the tin foilers up in arms and have them shouting from the rooftops about nothing.

[DeaconRed]

SEND ME THAT 20

[Vigilant1]

I guess they also missed the fact that the new $20 was designed, engraved and released into circualtion well before the WTC/Penatgon attacks on 9/11/01. Duh!

[JCG]

Obviously if the same guy, gal or thang will fold a fifty, we'll know where the next attack will be.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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[R. Scott]

Now that is a person with great spatial acuity.

[Republican_Strategist]

Origins: Folding common paper images such as currency and familiar product packaging to produce amusing (and often risqué) new images is a pastime with a long history. After all, several generations of kids have now learned that if you cut a few holes in a package of "Land O Lakes" butter and fold the portion with the pictured Native American girl's knees up just right, you can make it look like she's holding her breasts:





So, in that fine tradition, someone has recently discovered that folding a U.S. $20 bill a couple of different ways produces images that, with a little power of suggestion behind them, are reminiscent of pictures of the burning World Trade Center and Pentagon buildings after the September 11 terrorist attacks, a discovery now touted on some tongue-in-cheek web sites with the suggestion that the results are something more than a coincidence.

To those (few, we hope) who might be tempted to take something like this seriously, we'd simply point out that:

The current U.S. $20 bill was the product of a redesign introduced by the U.S. Treasury back in September 1998, a full three years before the terrorist attacks.

Since all denominations of U.S. currency higher than the $2 bill feature an engraving of a building surrounded by trees and/or shrubbery on their reverse sides, it isn't difficult to find a bill that can be folded to create an image similar to that of a burning building (with the leaves or shrubbery functioning as the "smoke").

The truly dedicated can even find a way to combine the letters in the printing to form the name of the perpetrator:



As far as fun-filled financial folding goes, you can usually obtain better results with bank notes from Europe, where countries don't all put nothing but pictures of buildings and stodgy old political figures on their money:



Of course, in some cases you don't even need to fold the currency:





Post No Bills

[grania]

Ignore them...it's weird.

[Aeronaut]

[johnny7]

It must be near closing time. Quick... order that last round!

[Boxsford]

Pretty cool post. Thanks. I guess I reacted differently than those on this thread. I thought it was pretty amazing. Of course I have not actually tried this myself (can't find a $20 bill in my purse) and maybe it's all baloney and doesn't even work.

[Rightly Biased]

On the pentagon side the folded bill has five sides like the pentagon hmmm..
On the wtc side of you fold the two sides together (like a Plane..Hey) You can see the words AMERICAN on one side of the bill and UNITED on the other kinda like the two airlines involved in the attack hmmm
If you fold the $5 and the $10 the same way the $5 shows the towers before the attack and the $10 shows them after the first hit COINCIDENCE?

Even worse than the $20 fold a new dollar coin in half.. it turns into a black helicopter

[Jaxter]

I believe it was all foretold here:

[aomagrat]

Do it with a quarter and I'll be impressed.

[cgbg]

This matter needs more careful study.

If everyone would be kind enough to send all their twenties to my Swiss bank account I will start working on it.

[MadelineZapeezda]

And do you know that when you inspect my cat's turd it looks just like binLaden. No folding. Just like the POS!

[CRAW]

You must get a life

[boris]

Somebody has way too much time on their hands. That said, all I knew about was the hidden mushroom on the face of a $1 bill.

And can someone tell me why they replaced Andy Jackson with Christopher Lee on the $20?

--Boris

[mercy]

Wow. THIS and the Bible Code certainly proves there IS a God.

[InvisibleChurch]

I love America!