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After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, war planners recognized a special threat: If Japan invaded Hawaii, it could seize millions of dollars in U.S. currency from the islands’ people and businesses — currency that would remain valuable since it was indistinguishable from that on the mainland.

They came up with a novel solution: In January 1942 the government recalled all regular paper money on the islands, except for an allowance of $200 per individual and $500 per business. Then it issued new notes stamped with the word HAWAII. Now if Hawaii fell to Japan these “overprinted” notes could be declared worthless.

After the new notes were distributed, citizens were asked to trade in their remaining regular currency. Two hundred million dollars was burned, and between August 1942 and October 1944 Hawaiians were required to conduct their business using the overprinted notes.

Happily, the invasion never came, and after the war the Hawaiian notes were exchanged for regular currency again. Today they’re collectors’ items.

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If there’s one thing I never miss, it’s the adventures of Lewis Starbonkers and the space ship Entterprise.

i dunno, man, this is some twisted shi… i don’t think the world’s ready for it. better do something more subtle like this sophomore year of art school final project

Hovertext: And it runs entirely on bio-ethanol!

Cyanide and Happiness' Kris Wilson will be the keynote speaker for BAHFest West! 

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Meteors are more commonly seen between midnight and dawn than between dusk and midnight. Why?

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It’s pretty much exclusively white dudes who are doing all the movie theater murders and yet our precious, allegedly liberal media can’t stop hand-wringing over all the violence that a rap movie is going to bring. Fucking fuck.

ratak-monodosico:

Equal Population Mapper

“say what you want about his policies — ”

he wants every human being on earth murdered and cast into a torture dimension

” — but he’s definitely got an opinion and he’s not afraid to say it. that’s admirable in a leader.”

We do ads for a realtor company who update their campaign every month with new colors and themes.

For their last update, they asked for a “Disney” theme . Each realtor wanted to look like a different Disney character. These were the notes attached to each woman’s photo:

1. She wants to be Cinderella
2. Make her the Cinderella of the movie “The Prince and the Frog”
3. Make her Aurora
4 .Make her Sleeping Beauty
5. Make her Elsa from The Snow White
6. Make her Tinkerbell
7. Make her Athena from Beauty and the Beast

Obviously, due to copyright, we couldn’t do their theme.

Clearly they don’t know their Disney movies anyway.

Crust Crusty.

Hewlett Wackard

flyartproductions:

DRAKE IS KILLIN IT

The Death of Marat (detail) (1793), Jacques-Louis David / If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake

Tronald Dump

thanks to @Hugh2D2 for the suggestion of “bat coffee”

sure, we would like to believe it’s “clinical depression” — but your body is communicating with you all day, every day. we can choose to ignore it… or we can choose to really listen, and understand that everything we do is actually bad

other guy: “same, hiccups are fatal to me”

based on a conversation i was worried i’d have today, but instead didn’t and everything worked out fine. thanks for nothing, comcast

“i got a lot of ways to rearrange the letters in the alphabet. you could do most- to least-frequently used too, but i feel like the least need to be up in front because it affects ability to memorize the new order. thank you for listening, goodbye”

I was designing a logo for a client who ran a gourmet pork sausage stall at farmers markets in the local area.

Client: Can you please ensure that the logo doesn’t actually show any sausages?

Me: I’m sure I can manage that. May I ask why?

Client: I don’t want to exclude Muslim markets.

I designed the logo and he was very happy with it. I’m not sure that Muslim clients will start buying his pork sausages, but at least the logo was inclusive!

your palms are what do the transmitting. if you smoosh your hands together, of course none of the prayers are going to get out!! we need to figure out who put us on the wrong track with this thing

here’s another comic i did about technicalities