Pretty In Purple
Filed under: Politik
The $5 bill just got a makeover!
The US Treasury gave Abe a little pick-me-up by adding some purple to the bill. To the naked eye, the most notable difference is color — splashes of light purple at the center of the bill that blend into gray near the edges. The new note also will feature an enlarged "5" printed in high-contrast purple ink in the lower right corner of the back of the bill.
The bill goes into circulation today.
Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, is still on the front and the Lincoln Memorial remains on the back.
Don't worry…you'll still be able to use the non-purpleified $5 bills (as long as they aren't counterfeit!).
Posted: March 13, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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Haha, it looks bedazzled.
Finally! Sooo tired of Americans claiming that Canadian dollars are "funny money"!
Purple does the body good!
I`ll bet some idiot will claim this is gaying up America
LOL!
At least there arent any disgusting N.I.G.G.E.R.S on it, now that would be filthy and against our good country!!!
OUT WITH N.I.G.G.E.R.S BROWN LIKE POO
nice…and first!!
ahhh they so copied us canadians, we were the first to have colour in our bills
DONT FORGET ITTTT PEOPLE
Who would try to counterfeit a $5 bill?? It's not worth the time or effort.
cooool!
YOUR MOM HAD SEX FOR A $5 BILL!
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C.R.E.A.M!!!
DOLLA DOLLA BiLL, y'all!
first!
Love purple
ahah coloured money
way to copy canada! lol
i love it… doesn't make me want to spend it though cause its so colorful!
awesome
looking more and more like the pound
How appropriate! A touch of lavender for our most famous sexually ambiguous president!
dumb
prett
purple is hot!!
i mean PRETTY
That looks ridiculous. Who was the idiot that had this brainstorm?
Now it looks like Canadian money!
7th!
So they finally picked up on smart Canadian money ideas
Re: FANNY –
you are an ignorant fool!
second!
That Looks SO GAY! It looks like Perez Money! lol PEREZ HAS HIS OWN MONEY LINE! I LUV IT!
Re: FANNY – hell ya! get rid of these brown poop stained people! white is tight! fuck ya! black people won't let the race thing go so i might as well not let it go either! We gave u a chance to equalize with us but u won't drop the race card so fuck you! U had yer chance! Now u cry the blues and have deemed YOURSELVES second class by not shutting up about race! If you wouldn't bring it up so much still then it wouldn't still be an issue but since you won't drop it then by all means! fuck you! to the back of the bus!
Re: Kirsten – NO ONE CARES IF YOU ARE FIRST!!! WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS?!?!!?!?
muslims suck and stink
i smell the democrats backing this
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I guess we can now say "This is as gay as a five dollar bill." instead of "This is as gay as a three dollar bill."
Oh no…they've fagged up our money!
UGLY
gosh !! i'm 6th ! haha…
nice nice.. then we're gonna have pink coins and that… haha..
c'ya !
good god! i love it..
i always thought us dollars were boring, but shit, add some glitter too!
i'll be looking out for these.
6th
MMM… I'd tap *that*!!!!!!
Be aaaaaaaaaaaall over his slave-freein' ass. Damn. I might "get with" some of the slaves he freed, too. 
MGMBill.org
It's about time. You Americans may laugh at our "monopoly" money but there is no mistaking a five from a twenty unlike your money when it was all the same colour. It's about time you did something to make it more distinctive.
Fuck off this isn't celebrity gossip it's just shite
welcome to our world!! a proud canadien…..i tell you it makes it a whole lot easies to tell the bills apart…for all the people wo makes fun of our money we get the lat laugh
perez you are such a PHONY - now you're trying to ACT like you have a SOCIAL CONSCIENCE - IT'S WAY TOO LATE FOR YOU TO EARN RESPECT -you're just trying to improve your image to be a GAY OPRAH with a TV Show, magizine & music review. SO FAKE - YOU HAVE TRASHED PEEPS FOR WAY TOO LONG TO THINK ANYONE WILL FALL FOR YOUR BS NOW - YOU"RE JUST ANOTHER ORANGE OPRAH - SUCKING OFF WHOEVER YOU WANT TO USE.
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HOW HEAVENLY!!!
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EVEN THE MONEY'S GOING GAY!!!
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THE NEW $5 BILL IS FIERCE, BITCHES!!!
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I CAN HEAR IT NOW, "YOU'RE AS QUEER AS A $5 BILL!"
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AHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
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This is an exaggerated picture…its going to look the same as the new $20s. Way to skew the story, Perez…
I really dont like it. Why purple? It looks like that purple 5 was just thrown on there as an after thought.
hahaha that looks sooooo gay! There goes America's bad boy powerhouse image. And by the way…Canadian curreny looks soooo cool!
american money is so bland and boring looking…
Looks like my Canadian money… You guys just gotta copy all our ideas don't cha??!
do not pass go, do not collect $200
I'm Canadian…I hate US money everytime I go south of the border. I fucking can't tell any of the bills apart and I hate the fact that you have $1 bills…get a coin….& how about a $2 coin.
Looks like the U.S finally jumped on the Canadian and European bandwagon, and colour-coded their money. It's only common sense! Then again, it always takes the U.S a little longer to clue in on things
However, the bill looks ridiculous….even more ugly than before. Is it really that hard for you ppl to come up w/ a decent looking bill? What's up with the retard-sized '5'? And PURPLE?? Of all colours?!?! Why wouldn't you just make the whole fucking bill the same colour at least?! SHEESH. Guess you can't expect any more than that from the U.S. Good effort, though….Good effort.
will it still smell of shit?
Can we make it look any more like monopoly money?
Can't make fun of the Canadians anymore..eh!
Well, Lincoln *was* supposedly gay, so this is certainly appropriate.
I still prefer the €uros
P.S - Changing the colour of your money won't make it any more valuable
Your economy is still shit, and your money means nothing.
Why is this important? How does this relate to celebrities? I guess PH is in need for stuff for the website, that they will put anything crap on it to fill a spot. For someone who craves celebrity BS, I'm surprised PH even put this one on here.
Sucky, sucky, five dolla?
Canadian money is still prettier!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA (((SUCK))) (((ON))) (((IT))) (((YANKS)))!!!!!!!!!!!!! The you can add colour to your boring Greenback to try to immitate us, but you *can't* match us Canadians on dollar value. OUR dollar is worth more than YOUR dollar. Oh, what's that I hear??? Why, that's the U.S. economy deeeeeeeeep in a recession! hahahahaha *coughs up a little and resumes* hahahahaha
In order to be realistic, they should have just made a "new" $3 bill. Because at the rate we're going, that five dollar bill will actually be "worth" about $3, and no nominee or presidential "patsy" will be able to stop the inevitable collapse of our dollar and economy. Nice going credit card, mortgage companies, etc. etc. INEVITABLE.
Ha ha ha and you Americans make fun of our canadian money!!
no really.
i hate ALL the new dollar bills.
the yellow and the orange and the purples. its so dumb. what happened to green.
this is ridiculous. i have a headache.
rofl, i dont even know what canadian money looks like, so im not bashing on you.
if your country started with colorful bills, holler.
if your country decided to switch it up becasue they got bored, oh god.
well…they tried at least…
And Canada isn't the only country to have coloured currency =\ sooo… I don't see the whole "ZOMG Finally America catches up with Canada and steal our idea" thing.
whatever money's money.
I love it! Go PURPLE!!!!
Do people realize how retarded they look when they write "sixth" and their comment is really #47???
Get a life.
also it looks NOTHING like Canadian money =\ It's still as green as ever! I'll still be confused when I cross the border lol!
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ew American money is so plain & boring…Candian money is soo pretty we have blue, PURPLE and a much prettier purple for our $10 bill…redd…green A beautifull healthy green..not that ugly ratty grenish greyish shit on american bills ….and brown for our $100. : )
I have herd from many American's that (us) canadians have "Monoply money" who's got it now sucka's????????
47th!
Nice color, love it. But seriously, no need to print more bills!
Copycats.. haha.. copy our canadian money.. at least I can tell the differnence between a 10 and a 5.. ones purple and ones blue..
well well welll…….
first americans made fun of our Canadian money….calling it "funny money"
look whos going purple now?
WELCOME:)
Re: FANNY – SHUT UP YOU DUMB BITCH! PEOPLE LIKE YOU DON'T DESERVE TO WALK THE EARTH
i think it looks silly, our currency is starting to look like pesos!
CANADAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
we are just so cool, people copy our money
Ignorant people are the most annoying thing on the Earth. ALL RACIST people should be SHOT. How in the hell did money become a topic of race. The topic is money you fucking idiot!!!
SPECIMEN!!!
That just strikes me as really funny.
Re: FANNY – You need to just get it over with.
Re: Emma – They have Money up there in Canada? I thought they used pine cones. I heard that one of your igloos was worth about 50 pine cones?
Re: Kelly – I'm doin a raindance cuz i'm indian….
Re: Kelly – a muslim just farted! EWWW!
Re: FANNY –
Fanny- u really do have dark issues within yourself…were you by any chance neglected and ridiculed because of your looks? HA- well serves your piece of shit right. Rot in hell bitch
and yes, we were by the way talking about the new currency. I personally dont like it- i thought the color green fit way better since America was the only country who used green on all notes.
Why do we need to have color on money? And to the Canadians that have a hard time telling the bills apart when they do south of the border, here is a hint…read the numbers on the bills
Sorry but you americans have ugly money. Like seriously.
American money is so ugly. The bills have such an old fashion design.
Any foreign currency has better design.
The irony…Lincoln's bill is purple!
Anywhoo…wow I didn't realize the Perez Hilton site was platform for so much racism, bigotry and homophobia…
Damn, some of the people on here need to get lives, for real! Who takes a good 5 or 6 minutes out of there day to come on to a gossip site and write an irrelevant paragraph long reply about hating black people, muslims, white people, or homosexuals? I'll tell you who…losers with no friends…sad really…
I think it is great that we are starting to add some color to our money. There are so many countries that have gorgeous notes and ours are bland and ugly.
Good american money is ugly.
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its not like CANADAs bin doind that for YEARS.
wayy to finally get it right though.
maybe now you guys can tell the difference between ya bills.
THE DOLLAR IS WORTH SHIT NO MATTER WHAT FUCKING COLOR IT IS.
I like it, except for all those "specimen" things written all over it. That makes it ugly. Why'd they have to go and ruin it by putting that on it?