My favorite:
Sharp as a marble.
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Originally Posted by scottmandue
Hotter than a swap meet VCR.
As queer as a three dollar bill.
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Oh, but there was at one time a legitimate three dollar bill.
it pictured Santa Claus.
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There was, in fact, a legitimate $3 bill with Santa Claus featured on it. This was in a time when individual banks or states issued their own currency, during the 1850's. Some of the banks who issued the bill were: Howard Banking Company of Boston, the Central Bank of Troy, the Pittsfield Bank, White Mountain Bank, St. Nicholas Bank of Manhattan, and the Central Bank of NYC in 1852. And it was legal tender!
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