# Just how dirty is money...?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dirty-is-money/491307>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 30, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dirty-is-money/491307 "2009-03-30T14:45:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dirty-is-money/491307/21 "2009-08-17T21:36:22Z")

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Who cares? The world is a dirty place. We have immune systems. I’m sick of the modern world’s germ phobia.

If your money is too dirty for you, send it to me.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dirty-is-money/491307/22 "2009-08-17T21:59:04Z")

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:: pulls a twenty from his wallet and squints at it ::

Doesn’t _look_ that bad… the hologram isn’t rubbed off or anything… I can feel the raised ink… someone wrote on it… this bill must be fairly new.

:: shudders just a little, but keeps the bill ::

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dirty-is-money/491307/23 "2009-08-17T22:09:54Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> Who cares? The world is a dirty place. We have immune systems. I’m sick of the modern world’s germ phobia.
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> If your money is too dirty for you, send it to me.

We’ll start a Facebook group. Money has been in existence for quite some time, and in filthier times than now. Lick a dollar bill every once in a while. Maybe you’ll fend off something and help to pass it through the gene pool.

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-dirty-is-money/491307/24 "2009-08-17T22:56:30Z")

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> [@picker](#):
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> I used to know a stripper who could actually pick up folding money with her hoo-ha.

Sure, but could she make change?

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