Obama Nine Dollar Bills Appearing Around Chicago
Dr. Utopia's $9 bills found all around Chicago.
This is not a counterfeit attempt by any means, just something bizarre we noticed while running errands and working on a special project here in Chicago.
We’re putting together travel guides for all the neighborhoods we love here in the city, for out of town visitors and readers of this site to showcase the interesting spots we sometimes talk about in various articles here on HillBuzz. A lot of you out there have never been to Chicago and sometimes ask us for restaurant recommendations, things to do on a birthday, and the like, and thought it would be fun to put together some lists and guides for you that we’ll keep active on this site so if you ever do come to Chicago, you can get a taste of why we love the place so much.
Well, while scoping out the Southport, Clarke, and Belmont shops for the travel guides of Lincoln Park/Lakeview, we went into dozens of tee shirt, poster, novelty, and comic book shops all around town today.
The great majority of them had Dr. Utopia’s smiling face on a nine dollar bill taped to the registers.
These are those joke currencies that sometimes have the Statue of Liberty on a Million Dollar Bill. In the 80s, we saw Reagan on joke million dollar bills…and in the 90s, we often saw Hillary Clinton on joke Millions…in novelty shops (where they were probably meant to terrify Republicans) or in weird futuristic movies like Pluto Nash.
But we’ve never seen fake “nine dollar bills” before and have absolutely no idea if there’s a significance to that.
The bills take the old-style $100 bill and put Dr. Utopia in the center, and then lift random and forgettable quotes from his Inaugural Address and place them to the left and right of him, with his full name underneathe and the date January 20th, 2009 (the date, it should be noted, that all race-cards expired and, time will tell, Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson/Henry Gates/Spike Lee and other racebaiting hucksters truly went out of business).
Maybe it’s some hipster thing with the number “9″ we’re not aware of. Or “9″ is a referance to 2009. We have no idea.
But, it is interesting all those shops sell magnets and buttons glorifying Dr. Utopia while still riduling Bush. The meme is “It’s not a Messiah complex if he really does save the world!” and pictures of him saying, “I got this!” and “Proud to be an American again”, insulting 43rd president at ever turn, despite the fact the man kept us safe for 8 years and stood up to every villain and tyrant who reared their loathsome heads on his watch.
Dr. Utopia, meanwhile, kisses the Saudi King’s ring…and does much, much worse with the likes of Castro, Chavez, and Ahmadeenajad (who we think so little of we’re not even going to bother Google spellchecking for, so don’t go off on us for that).
We wonder if somewhere outside liberal bastion Chicago there are magnets and buttons ridiculing the nonsense that is the Golden Age of Hope, Change and Unicorns. We’d love to hear about any of those materials if you see them near you.
All of these novelties come from catalogs ordered by stores based on what they think their customers will buy. It’s expensive in this economy to order anything for a store, so if items lampooning Dr. Utopia are to be found in those catalogs, we sure won’t ever see the likes of them here in Chicago.
But, we can’t imagine they don’t exist.
Just as we can’t imagine Texas wasn’t filled to bursting with items proclaiming George W. Bush’s virtues to the world.
Maybe W. was on the $9 bill down there, for all we know.
Maybe someone out there knows what the heck all that is about.
We’d love to hear it if you do.
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UPDATE: Thanks to readers for sending this in, it’s what they’ve got up in Texas instead of the $9 bill. Dr. Utopia won another award, it seems: Firearm Salesman of the Year. H/t to HuntersandFishers for the snap:
Dr. Utopia wins yet another award! For AWESOMENESS!
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Hmm…curioser and curiouser.
“Number 9. Number 9…”
In numerology, nine is the number of completion (ten reduces down to one). Maybe Utopia will be the last president of the age of corruption. After all, 2012 has mystical meaning in addition to being a new election year.
Then again, it’s hard to believe that sellers of novelty items touting this creep would be esoteric in the least.
Hope one of our intrepid HB family members knows the real answer.
What’s the mystical meaning of 2012? IMWTK.
So is that the “Obama money” that’s being given away in Detroit? Whew – I was afraid they were getting the American taxpayers’ money and didn’t know the difference. My bad.
Funny you should ask that, Auntie Lib- was in Detroit a few months back, had a friend give me a $3 bill backed by some organization named “Detroit Metro Business Consortium” or some such thing.
It was a pretty nicely rendered bill, and I used it to buy a nice imported beer somewhere over near Comerica Park.
It is actually legal for communities to issue their own money — to be spent in that community at establishments that will accept the local tender. We don’t remember where it is, but during the primaries somewhere odd we were stationed for HRC we ran across oddball local money and didn’t know what it was. Might have been in Ohio or PA. And it could be spent at mom and pop places around town….Home Depot, Burger King, etc. wouldn’t take it, but local bars and restaurants would.
We’d love to have that in Boystown…how fun that would be…but we don’t know if it would work in bigger cities.
Well, I assume the $9. bill is the old $3. bill after the inflation caused by Obama’s $787. Billion “stimulus,” which will cause massive inflation as it is disbursed.
For our non-Chicago readers:
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/homicide-map.html
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/2009/10/the-chicago-ward-with-the-most-homicides-is.html
Now, if someone can do something about this, that would be worthy of a Nobel Peace prize.
Well…this would be pretty esoteric, but I’ll offer it for your consideration. Even though I’ve studied numerology for a long time the first thing I thought of was Helter Skelter.
During the election I watched Mike Gravel’s youtube cover of Helter Skelter a lot, and at the end he whispers to the camera “Number 9, Number 9, you say you want a revolution?”
On the below page Manson was said to believe that the Beatles song Revolution 9 from the White Album was a prophecy of the upcoming white versus black revolution (or rather, blacks versus the white establishment).
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/mansonbeatles.html
I think it’s the old $3 bill.
Squared.
Because Obama is “as phony as a 9 dollar bill”.
I’m sure it’s a reference to that famous idiom, although why 9 and and not 3 – which is also often used in the same way – I can’t say. Maybe it’s due to his $9 billion deficit.
Obama is also on a $2008 bill, an $8 bill, and a $3 bill… so far that I have found.
“Ahmadeenajad (who we think so little of we’re not even going to bother Google spellchecking for, so don’t go off on us for that).”
Hate to be a schoolmarm here, but the correct spelling is “Aquavelvajad”.
“The bills take the old-style $100 bill and put Dr. Utopia in the center” possibly to show what a $100 bill will be worth at the end of his term.
Is this a racist hate attack? Is this a desire to harm of POTUS? Only dead presidents/men appear on stamps and currency, right?
Not so:
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Replica-Bills-and-Collectibles__W0QQ_armrsZ1QQ_fsubZ7QQ_scZ1QQ_sopZ1
Sorry I’m a bit late in replying to this, but in the UK and NZ we have a saying “as queer as a nine bob watch” – the “queer” in this case can also mean dodgy, as a nine bob (shilling) watch would be too cheap to be any good. I note from the definition below that there is an American version “as queer as a nine dollar bill”.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/44500.html
These bills don’t really glorify Obama. If you exam them closely you will find symbols and parts meant to mock him. There is a Crescent moon on the back like the Islamic star. The seal is “The House of Barack.” The bill also compares a quote from Thomas Jefferson with the tripe quote that Obama wrote. The side says “Hope we Can Believe In” – But if you read left to right like most people then you find the amusing placement of “No Monetary Value.” Anybody buying these bills to honor Obama is probably unaware that the joke is on them.