# 9/11 and dollar bills **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137 "2005-06-13T19:52:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/1 "2005-06-13T19:52:07Z")
[http://www.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml](http://www.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml) tells you how to see 9/11 images in various bills. What I want to know is how to fold the $20.00 to make it spell OSAMA I can’t figure out out ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/2 "2005-06-13T20:30:22Z")
The O is the “0” in “20,” the “S” is one of the Ss in “States”, and “AM” and “A” come from “America.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/3 "2005-06-13T21:54:01Z")
Now, all we have to do is show that Nostradamus worked for the mint. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/4 "2005-06-14T20:04:45Z")
Thaks. Couldn’t think if using the zero as the letter O ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/5 "2005-06-14T20:31:40Z")
Some people have _way_ too much free time. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/6 "2005-06-14T21:14:30Z")
I love the last comment in the box at the end. “If you fold the new dollar coin in half, it turns into a black helicopter.” I could only read that with heavy sarcasm, though I don’t doubt that there are people out there who take it seriously. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/7 "2005-06-14T22:13:53Z")
And disproving the old adage, if you fold Paris Hilton in half, you get a silk purse. Regarding folding the money…other than maybe winning a free drink in a bar bet, the point of all this financial origami is? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/8 "2005-06-14T23:22:47Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Regarding folding the money…other than maybe winning a free drink in a bar bet, the point of all this financial origami is? I think some people are using it as evidence of a conspiricy within the US Government to cause the WTC to be destroyed. Because if there was a conspiricy, the conspiritors would leave clues like this :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/9 "2005-06-14T23:37:06Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > And disproving the old adage, if you fold Paris Hilton in half, you get a silk purse. And if Paris Hilton and all her friends were laid end to end - I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. [sub]with many apologies to Dorothy Parker…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/10 "2005-06-15T00:09:38Z")
I have 2 twenties in my wallet as I read this, but unfortunately they’re both series 1999. I tried folding them anyway and I got the same results as that site does.\ It IS an amusing coincidence though. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-and-dollar-bills/308137/11 "2005-06-15T00:21:18Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > And disproving the old adage, if you fold Paris Hilton in half, you get a silk purse. That’s not how it goes. It’s “If you fold Paris Hilton in half, film it in night-vision and post it on the internet, you’ll be famous within the hour.”