Gayer than a 2 dollar bill
Noun; A great band out of Chicago.
Charming and subversive without breaking a sweat, this Chicago rock band is a DIY favorite.
Defining post-punk attitudes with stinging guitars, catchy melodies, and an irresistibly pounding rhythm section,
THREE DOLLAR BILL hooks you with songs full of pleading desire, lust and rage.
What makes THREE DOLLAR BILL a rare trap is their knack of mixing metal edginess and puncrock
energies into a sound that becomes entirely their own. The haunting harmonies of The Breeders,
Sleater-Kinney and X; the guitar riffs of AC/DC; the political wit of the Dead Kennedys; the dissonance
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The ThreeDollar Bill present was amazing last night.
by Stokley January 16, 2005
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as a two dollar bill
birder said:
To clarify: The re-introduction of the $2 bill in 1976 mentioned by Gengo was a one-shot commemorative issue for the 1776-1976 bicentennial celebrations and not a re-introduction of a general-issue $2 bill.
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That's not correct, but you can be excused for not understanding the arcane dating practices of the Federal Reserve system.
Unlike US coins, which logically bear the year in which they were minted, US currency (all denominations, and not just two-dollar bills) bears a series meeting, indicating the year in which that style of bill was first issued. A new style of bill was issued in 1976, and that manner is called the "series of 1976," but that series was issued continuously until 1996, when a new series was issued. This is sort of like the US Navy practice of classifying its ships by using the name of the first ship of that class, such as a "Los Angeles class submarine." So when you see a two-dollar bill with a date of 1976, it does notmean the bill was printed in that year.
The US treasury often gets letters asking if the two-dollar bill is rare, and it answers that although the bill
Queer As a What?
May 7, 2014
In a recent interview about a fascinating-lookingtelephone-hotline documentary, phone psychic and infomercial star Ms. Cleo revealed that she’s not just gay — “I’m as gay as a two dollar bill,” she declared.
[Source: “Ms. Cleo Comes to Hot Docs: ‘I’m Gay As a Two Dollar Bill’” IndieWire, May 1, 2014]
Really? There’s nothing gay, straight, or generally sexual about a $2 bill, as far as I can discern.
Ms. Cleo gives us a decent example of the bastardization of the anachronistic expression “queer as a three-dollar bill.” First, some definitions.
“Queer as a three-dollar bill”:
- Older term that means extremely strange but is usually heard in reference to a gay person. There never was a three-dollar bill…thus the rarity.
(Urban Dictionary)
Okay, that basically makes sense — in the context of queer essence “phony” and three-dollar bill representing nonexistence. But at some point in the past few decades, both parts of the expression changed! What kind of crazy alchemy was at work?
Although queer had been employed to me
queer as a three-dollar bill
(as) queer as a three-dollar bill
1. Completely and obviously false or fake; not genuine or authentic in the slightest. (There has never been a three-dollar bill in circulation in the United States.) Primarily heard in US. The guy claims to tutor you how to gain rich in a dash, but the whole thing sounds as queer as a three-dollar bill.The senator's hammed-up, teary-eyed speech was queer as a three-dollar bill, if you inquire me.A: "I'm sorry, but your so-called Louis Vuitton bag is queer as a three-dollar bill." B: "What? How can you tell?"
2. Completely or blatantly not heterosexual or cisgender. Offensive when used pejoratively. Primarily heard in US. Honey, I'm as homosexual as a three-dollar bill and proud of it.My parents were not terribly surprised when I came out. I'm queer as a three-dollar bill and always knew it—and I think they did too.
See also: bill, queer
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queer as a three-dollar bill
verbSee as phony as a three-dollar bill
See also: bill, queer
queer as a three-dollar bill
verbSee as gay as a three-dollar bill
See also: bill, queer
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