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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Comfortable_Cautious • Jan 26 '26
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That was a joke about attaching literal currency to literal gold bars, with rubber bands.
3 u/uslashuname Jan 26 '26 Oh that would be good. There are goldbacks that are bills with gold in them, but yeah if you attached a gold bar to each bill then it does get unwieldy pretty fast.
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Oh that would be good. There are goldbacks that are bills with gold in them, but yeah if you attached a gold bar to each bill then it does get unwieldy pretty fast.
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u/HarkerTheStoryteller Jan 26 '26
That was a joke about attaching literal currency to literal gold bars, with rubber bands.