{"id":1649,"date":"2007-09-02T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/strange-currency\/"},"modified":"2007-09-02T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T11:47:37","slug":"strange-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/strange-currency","title":{"rendered":"Strange Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, early in my dream cycle, I dreamed that the U.S. had introduced the $8 bill back in 2003, but I’d done so much of my shopping online that I didn’t notice the new bill till now.<\/p>\n

More irritatingly, in almost every dream I had for the rest of the night, people either goofed on me when I told them about this $8 dollar bill dream, or they too were using $8 bills to pay for things.<\/p>\n

I think the presence of $2 coins here in Canada is messing with my head.<\/p>\n

Since you put up with that, here’s another picture from Toronto.<\/p>\n

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Last night, early in my dream cycle, I dreamed that the U.S. had introduced the $8 bill back in 2003, but I’d done so much of my shopping online that I didn’t notice the new bill till now. More irritatingly, in almost every dream I had for the rest of the night, people either goofed … <\/p>\n

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