Coincidence or 'Shock and Awe' you decide

[Hutzpa]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!


1) Fold a NEW PINK $20 bill in half...


http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=1


2) Fold again, taking care to fold it exactly as below


http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=2

3) Fold the other end, exactly as before


http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=3



4) Now, simply turn it over...


http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=4



What a coincidence! A simple geometric fold creates a catastrophic premonition printed on all $20 bills!!!
COINCIDENCE? YOU DECIDE

As if that wasn't enough .. here is what you've seen...


Firstly The Pentagon on fire...


http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=5




Then The Twin Towers.



http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=6




.. And now .. look at this!



http://www.msnusers.com/bolosimages/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=7


TRIPLE COINCIDENCE ON A SIMPLE $20 BILL

It gets even better!! 9 + 11=$20!!

Talking bout breaking the code, there is your answer.


Edit: had to edit heading.

[AX10]

1. What are you talking about?

:shrug:

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Look at the pics

It's pretty creative but it's not hard to see what they are looking at.

[Hutzpa]

3. Where you able to click on the links?

talking bout 9/11 on a $20 bill.

[walldude]

4. Gee I'd say.... Coincidence n/t

[ret5hd]

5. and kind of a lame coincidence at that. n/t

[livvy]

6. Check out Snopes for the background on this....

Legend: A properly folded U.S. $20 bill reveals images of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.


http://www.snopes.com/rumors/20bill.htm

[Peace Patriot]

7. The Twin Tower and Pentagon explosions are uncanny.

But the last one ("Osama") is ridiculous. (As anagram writers know, you can pull letters out of any lengthy string of letters, and make up all kinds of words, statements, names.) (For instance, you can rearrange the letters that are isolated in the folded pyramid, on the folded Pentagon explosion side, to read: "We tred states of God." Are you thinking that's significant?)

Regarding the Twin Tower/Pentagon explosion images--why would anybody do this?

A macabre joke is the only motive I can think of. It COULD BE a coincidence. Image-makers might say the same thing as anagram writers--you can make anything out of anything. But I'll admit that the exact folds that produce these uncanny resemblances to those two images (Twin Towers burning, Pentagon burning) make it damn weird. The Pentagon one would not be so reminiscent, though, if the Twin Towers one, on the other side, wasn't so spookily exact. You wouldn't think twice about the Pentagon one, if it stood alone.

Games like this are fun--and sometimes instructive, and even revealing (and even useful!)--because they free the unconscious to make its own associations, apart from normal everyday logic, linear thinking and scientific rationalism. I'm thinking of some little bureaucratic guy, green blinkers on, stuck in a basement under Fort Knox, ordered by some dumbass Bushite boss to design the new junta $20 bill--and getting his secretive revenge by memorializing their worst deed in a way that only Japanese paper art freaks and Pythagoreans might discover.

There's a novel in that, don't you think?

:think: :think:

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Coincidence, but it makes a good parlour trick.