Is that IRS refund check really just gravy or funny money?
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Showbiz stories, built on dreams and funny-money, are flimsier still.
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"Indirect cost payments are not funny money or a slush fund," he said.
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With a straight face, Mr Chinamasa told the BBC that paying exporters in funny money would incentivise them.
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"At the end of the day, it's funny money until it's realized," said Jonathan DeYoe, another private wealth adviser.
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What supporters see as a profound financial innovation, however, others warn can be an easy route to creating funny money.
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"When it's ignored by companies and investors it gives companies the opportunity to use stock compensation like funny money," he says.
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In June, without enough hard cash to pay the soldiers who defend it, the government decreed that shops must accept only funny money.
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Looking at players this way—as products of their own time, with corresponding on-court production—helps correct for the "funny money" stats of yesteryear.
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His regime has kept grabbing dollars from people's bank accounts and replacing them with electronic funny money, which has now lost most of its value.
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The balance isn't "real" until it hits the blockchain, though, so it's all funny money (well, funnier than usual) until the payment channel is closed out.
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Instead they will be foisted onto exporters who, having paid their suppliers and workers in hard cash, will have to accept funny money for their earnings.
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FUNNY MONEY Remember the golfer who made a hole-in-one to collect a million-dollar prize in a charity golf event at the Trump National Golf Club?
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Dark money, soft money, hard money, funny money, grassroots donations, direct mail vendors, campaign rally costs, and yes, even Russian Facebook ad buys are hiding out in FEC disclosures.
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Sanders's piling up of chickens in every pot — down to tuition-free college paid for by taxing "Wall Street's speculation" — recalls the "funny money" schemes of Long and others.
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While stories of funny money contracts and gargantuan signing bonuses dominate NFL financial coverage, odds are that the average professional football player is going to need a second career.
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You've probably heard about this funny money, digital tokens that can be sent securely from computer to computer, with records kept through an online accounting system known as blockchain.
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"While the Castros and their agents are given access to the U.S. financial system, the suffering Cuban people will still get paid in funny money — if at all," he said.
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Rick Ross' protege, Fat Trel, got busted for passing off counterfeit bills in a casino, but he says the funny money is just what an ATM spit out to him.
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Blake -- bad knee and all -- toughed it out to raise funny money at "Comedy by Blake" ... bringing in big-name comics like John Mulaney, Norm Macdonald and Whitney Cummings for the charity event at The Avalon.
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Just like how teaching kids to code can be accomplished with wood blocks instead of normal computers, many cryptocurrencies have "test networks" that have all of the functionality of the real thing, but it's funny money.
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If that seems like funny money to some observers — and like something less funny considering the restrictions on how college athletes may be compensated — it makes more sense in the context of an industry where many head coaches make millions of dollars a year.
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If he didn't do those two thi-; I, I'm not saying he can raise interest rates, 'cause Obama with a very small recovery, was playing with funny money because he, he didn't you know, he, he had you know, he had almost close to zero interest rates, right.
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So, in the country's most violent team sport, in which players sign funny-money contracts and can be cut willy-nilly, fines are seemingly handed out based on the basis of Roger Goodell's mood—and now the commissioner has a Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling stating that he can basically do whatever the hell he wants because the NFLPA agreed to it.
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Lindner, Will. "Funny Money: A passion for providing comic relief," Business People—Vermont (November 2014).
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Funny Money is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Leslie Greif and starring Chevy Chase, Penelope Ann Miller and Armand Assante. It is based on the 1996 British play Funny Money by Ray Cooney. It was a co-production between Germany, the United States and Romania.
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He wrote and hosts "Funny Money", a stage show designed to teach students about finance. He does over 300 stand-up performances a year, mostly "Funny Money". Cunningham was born in Toronto, where his father was an accountant. He studied drama and minored in finance at the University of Toronto.
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10. "Long Gone" – 3:20 11. "Funny Money" – 3:35 12. "Save Us from Our Friends" – 3:46 13. "Sent Here to Shine" – 4:29 14.
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"All About the Money" was also featured as a soundtrack to the Chevy Chase movie Funny Money in 2006. The album was produced by Douglas Carr.
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The 1980s saw him in such shows as Hardcastle and McCormick in the "Black Widow" episode,TV Guide Episode Detail: Black Widow - Hardcastle and McCormick TJ Hooker playing the part of John Simone in the "Funny Money" episode,TJ-HOOKER.COM! SEASON: 5 "Funny Money" AIRDATE: 11.27.85 Hill Street Blues in the "Last Chance Salon" episode, and starring as Jake Calbar in 'The Deadly Collection' episode of The New Mike Hammer. He also appeared in CHiPs.
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Singer joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1974. Several of his articles for the magazine were expanded into books, including Funny Money, his account of the collapse of the Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City; and Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin. Both Funny Money and Citizen K were praised by The New York Times, with reviewer Ben Yagoda comparing Singer to Joseph Mitchell. Singer's profile of Ricky Jay, an illusionist and scholar, was published in 1993.
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Funny Money is a 1983 British crime film directed by James Kenelm Clarke and starring Gregg Henry, Elizabeth Daily and Derren Nesbitt.BFI.org The Film was distributed by Cannon Films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Harry Pottle.
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In addition to several Doctor Who audio plays for the Big Finish series, Pegg's work as a director includes theatre productions of Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Peter Pan, Funny Money, I Thought I Heard a Rustling, and Diary of a Somebody.
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All three series were filmed at CBS Studio Center and shared other exterior and interior sets. Additionally, the train interior was used for an episode of Get Smart ("The King Lives?", aired January 6, 1968) and the short-lived Barbary Coast ("Funny Money," aired September 8, 1975).
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Hotspur in Henry IV and later Rosencrantz in a world tour of Hamlet starring Derek Jacobi. He also played Guildenstern in Hamlet on the site of the new Globe Theatre. Five years at the Crucible Sheffield. In the West End he appeared in The Tulip Tree and in Ray Cooney's Funny Money.
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Back on the East Coast, he founded the Blues Vultures in 2002, maturing into the lead vocalist and primary songwriter, and in 2005, released the album The Blues Vultures: Cheap Guitars & Honky Tonk Bars. Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant joined Whiteman in Funny Money as their drummer in 2003, ultimately sowing the seeds for a Kix reunion.
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Tatge has written about corporate misdeeds, starting with his coverage of the savings and loan scandal in Colorado Savings and loan crisis during the 1980s. Tatge chronicled how lax federal regulations allowed bank executives to speculate on land deals with depositors' money. The funny money deals sank Silverado Banking. The thrift collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.3 billion.
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Funny Money is a farce written by Ray Cooney. It premièred at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley, London, England, in 1994, followed by a successful two-year run in the West End. Cooney directed his own play and also played the part of Henry Perkins. In 2006 the play was adapted into a movie starring Chevy Chase.
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In 1990 she acted in Kathy Burke's play Mr Thomas at the Old Red Lion Theatre. It was subsequently filmed and shown on Channel 4. Graham acted in Funny Money at the Playhouse Theatre (1996), and in The Norman Conquests for Ian Dickens (2007). In 2012 she appeared in Michael Cooney's Cash on Delivery at The Mill at Sonning.
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Billboard Magazine Chart listing for the week of Underground's publishing arm B.U.M.P. has had over 500 music placements in films and television series. Selected television credits include: The Sopranos, America's Funniest Videos, Melrose Place, The District, MTV's Making the Band, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Scrubs and Weeds. Selected film credits include: Amreeka, Funny Money, Soul Men and Marci X.
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35 (January 2002). A writer for The Guardian stated that the film's failure marked "the death knell" for the 1970s British practice of producing motion picture spinoffs based on sitcoms.Jon Bentham, "Funny money", The Guardian, 12 January 2006 The film aired on television on Christmas Day 1980, only a couple of months after its theatrical release.
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Smith was married four times, first to Cheryl Cocklin, then to actress Lynda Bellingham (1975-76). His third wife Valerie Van Ost, also an actress, worked as casting director on two of his film productions (The Boys in Blue (1982) and Funny Money (1983). Smith married his fourth wife, Gloria Thomas, shortly before he died on 19 February 2009.
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His television credits include The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) and The Thorn Birds (1983). Butler was scheduled to have made his directorial debut in January 1979 with Adrift & Beyond, but it never came to fruition. Butler turned down Coppola's offer to direct the photography for Apocalypse Now (1979). Butler has worked in films during the 2000s, such as Frailty (2002) and Funny Money (2006).
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2005 marked the second year of the BTP. The company presented Ray Cooney's hit farce Funny Money at the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore from 3 to 7 May in a dinner-theatre format. The artists included Nick Wilton, Kim Hartman, Patrick Moncton, Louise Jameson (Doctor Who), John Nolan, David Warwick, John Faulkner and David Mercatali; the director was David Warwick; and the set designer was Katy Tuxford.
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He pleaded guilty in 1975 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stock-fraud conspiracy and three other counts of fraud. Investors sued Randell in civil court and were awarded $35 million.Called to Account: Fourteen Financial Frauds that Shaped the American Accounting Profession, Chapter 7 - book by Paul M. Clikeman Financial author Andrew Tobias was a young marketing director at NSMC and wrote a book about his experiences entitled The Funny Money Game.
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His book Authenticity put the phenomenon on the business and political agenda. His previous books The Tyranny of Numbers and The Sum of Our Discontent predicted and fermented the backlash against target culture. Funny Money helped launched the time banks movement in the UK. More recently, his writing has suggested why organisations and public services can be ineffective. He worked with the New Economics Foundation and NESTA on a series of publications about coproduction.
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Since then, Belafsky has been featured in such films as Pearl Harbor, Evolution, America's Sweethearts, Back by Midnight, Men in Black II, A Mighty Wind and Funny Money. He has also been featured on television, including a series regular role in MTV's The Lyricist Lounge Show, as well as guest appearances on Still Standing, Six Feet Under and Boston Legal. Belafsky has done over 40 commercials and continues to tour nationally throughout the US.
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Over 130 airlines have "frequent flyer programs" based at least in part on miles, kilometers, points or segments for flights taken. Globally, such programs included about 163 million people as reported in 2006.The Economist (2005, 20-Dec), Frequent- flyer miles — Funny money. These programs benefit airlines by habituating people to air travel and, through the mechanics of partnerships with credit card companies and other businesses, in which high profit margin revenue streams can amount to selling free seats for a high price.
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He and Kim took a holiday in Goa in India to recover and on their return, it seemed things were finally going right again. They moved to a small cottage in Church End Twyning, about a mile south of Twyning, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire with the ambition of making a fresh start. Grant lived very reclusively and neighbours would only see him when he was trimming his hedge. His last acting role was in Funny Money at Devonshire Park Theatre from July 1998.
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" The computer was funded by the Department of Defense and was under the control of Professor Thomas Cheatham. "Although DARPA was funding the PDP-10 at Harvard, there was no written policy regarding its use. ... After the computer flap, Gates and Allen bought computer time from a timesharing service in Boston to put the finishing touches on their BASIC." In 2008, Homebrew member Lee Felsenstein recalled similar doubts about Gates' $40,000 number: "Well, we all knew [that] the evaluation of computer time was the ultimate in funny money.
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All season one episodes except for Quizz Master were released as three-disc box sets by Magna Pacific on November 9, 2006; July 3, 2007; and October 11, 2007. These are named Inspector Gadget – The Original Series: Box Set 1, Inspector Gadget - The Original Series: Box Set 2, and Inspector Gadget - The Original Series: Box Set 3, respectively. Inspector Gadget - The Original Series: Box Set 1 contains the pilot episode "Winter Olympics". In Inspector Gadget - The Original Series: Box Set 3 three of the episodes were edited: "Funny Money", "Tree Guesses", and "Fang the Wonderdog".
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Following the 1937 revolt, the government made a serious attempt to implement social credit policies. It passed several pieces of radical populist legislation, such as the issuance of prosperity certificates to Alberta residents (dubbed "funny money" by detractors) in accordance with the theories of Silvio Gesell. Douglas, the main leader of the Social Credit movement, did not like the idea of prosperity certificates, which depreciated in value the longer they were held, and openly criticized Gesell's theories. The Socreds also passed bills that would have placed the province's banks under government control.
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From 2003 to 2005 Addison wrote a fortnightly finance column for The Guardian titled "Funny Money". On alternate weeks, when the column was not written by Addison, writing duties passed to fellow stand-up Dominic Holland. Addison has written two books, both published by Hodder and Stoughton: Cautionary Tales for Grown Ups in 2006 and It Wasn't Me: Why Everybody is to Blame and You're Not in 2008. In 2011 and 2012 he appeared in a range of Direct Line adverts as a Direct Line representative alongside difficult customers, played by fellow comedic performers Alexander Armstrong, Amelia Bullmore and Lorna Watson.
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Funny Money was formed by Whiteman and guitarist Billy Andrews after they met at a charity gig in 1996 after Kix disbanded, the group has released four studio albums and one live album since its formation and currently consists of Whiteman, Dean Cramer (one of Whiteman's vocal students), and fellow Kix alumni Jimmy Chalfant and Mark Schenker. Whiteman also took the downtime from Kix to begin a teaching career, he would go on to teach vocals, drums, guitar, and harmonica at the Maryland Institute of Music, his vocal students include Jordan White and Lzzy Hale of Halestorm.
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O'Malley also agitated for the establishment of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, a state-owned savings and investment bank although, contrary to his later claims, he was not the bank's sole creator. He later wrote that he had led a "torpedo squad" in Caucus to force a reluctant Cabinet to establish the bank, but historians do not accept this. Prime Minister Fisher was the bank's principal architect. Partly to allay fears of "funny money" aroused by O'Malley's populist rhetoric, Fisher ensured that the bank would be run on firmly "sound money" principles, and the bank as established did not provide the easy credit for farmers that the radicals desired.
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Lytle later pleaded guilty to a count of defrauding Continental of $2.25 million and receiving $585,000 in kickbacks for approving risky loan applications. Lytle was sentenced to three and a half years in a federal prison. The Penn Square failure eventually caused a substantial run on the bank's deposits once it became clear Continental Illinois was headed for failure. Large depositors withdrew over $10 billion of deposits in early May 1984.Some of this is detailed in the books Funny Money by Mark Singer (New York: Knopf, 1985, ) and Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank by Philip Zweig (New York: Crown, 1985, ).
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The contestants made their choices by pressing a button corresponding to the star they wished to choose. Each time either player chose the correct star, s/he scored a point; the player with the most matches after four answers won the round and a $100 Spiegel gift certificate, which both players split in case of a tie. If in any round any player matched four stars in a row, s/he won all the money in the "Funny Money Jackpot" which started at $100 and increased by $100 per day until won. The player with the most matches at the end of the game won a special prize.
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Social Credit (often called Socred) was a populist political movement strongest in Alberta and neighboring British Columbia, 1930s-1970s. Social Credit was based on the economic theories of an Englishman, C. H. Douglas. His theories, at first brought to public attention in Alberta by UFA and Labour MPs in the early 1920s, became very popular across the nation in the early 1930s. A central proposal was the free distribution of prosperity certificates (or social credit), called "funny money" by the opposition. During the Great Depression in Canada the demand for radical action peaked around 1934, after the worst period was over and the economy was recovering.
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Wisocky began work in the theatre, appearing on Broadway in 1995 in The Play's the Thing. Wisocky later performed in many stage productions, primarily playing strong women, like Lady Macbeth and Medea. In 2008, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her role as Nazi-era German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in Jordan Harrison's Amazons and Their Men. She also acted in several other Off-Broadway plays, including Don Juan Comes Back from the War, The Tooth of Crime, and Hot 'N Throbbing. Wisocky had supporting roles in number of films, including Pollock (2000), Funny Money (2006), and Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011).
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After that in the late 1970s and 1980s, Hunt made appearances in Sunday Night Thriller, Minder and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. Hunt appeared alongside Julia McKenzie in That Beryl Marston...! in 1981. He also appeared in the films Funny Money (1983) and Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) as well as in the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, and in 1988 he played many parts in the Pet Shop Boys' film It Couldn't Happen Here. Hunt starred in a series of television adverts for the coffee brand Nescafé in the 1980s, with a trademark move: to shake his closed hand then open it, to reveal coffee beans, and smell the aroma.
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The book is divided into 52 chapters, organized by geography. Its geographical structure begins in California, continues through other western states to the Great Plains and Midwest, then east to the Northeast and Southeast, then west to Texas and Oklahoma, and finally to the "new states" of New Mexico and Arizona. Factual information about topics like geography, population, and history is commingled with highly opinionated statements (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called some of these opinions "flip judgments") about America's places and people. According to Gunther, Southern California was "the California of petroleum, crazy religious cults, the citrus industry, ... the weirdest architecture in the United States, ... and devotees of funny money", and a place where "climate is worshipped as a god".
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Test money (or test notes, test bills, funny money, Monopoly money) are a part of the test apparatus that are often used with currency handling equipment, such as automatic teller machines. While it is often desirable to use actual banknotes or coins in the process of testing currency handling equipment, the inherent value of the objects being used means that security procedures must be put in place during the testing period that they are used. If the testing includes destructive testing, where the currency is purposefully damaged or destroyed to see how the machinery will react, further concern will be raised about the subsequent loss in value of the objects. To remove these concerns, test money is often used in place of real currency.
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This was followed by Jane Eyre (1993), adapted by Fay Weldon and starring Tim Pigott-Smith; Frederick Lonsdale's On Approval, (1994), starring Simon Ward, Martin Jarvis and Anna Carteret; and Ray Cooney's Funny Money in 1995. In 1996, Cooney sold the Playhouse to American investment banker Patrick Sulaiman Cole, whose first production was a critically acclaimed revival of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1996, directed by Anthony Page and starring Janet McTeer. Later that year, the theatre was closed for complete refurbishment under the direction of English Heritage, with the auditorium luxuriously decorated, with grandiose murals, caryatids, golden pillars, carved balustrades, and shining gold decoration. It reopened in 1997 with Sulaiman Cole's production and the West End première of Anton Chekhov's The Wood Demon.
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In 1996, Whiteman formed a band called Funny Money. In 1998, Brian "Damage" Forsythe teamed up with ex-White Sister and Tattoo Rodeo drummer Rich Wright, and erstwhile Rhino Bucket members rhythm guitarist/lead vocalist Georg Dolivo (George Dolivo) and bassist Reeve Downes to forge Deep Six Holiday. In 2001, Forsythe himself would join Rhino Bucket, later performing lead guitar on the group's 2005 release And Then It Got Ugly.. Meanwhile, Ronnie "10/10" Younkins relocated to Baltimore City, and would be part of the rock 'n' roll act Jeremy and the Suicides. Younkins later moved to L.A., then wrote, recorded, and released the album The Slimmer Twins: Lack of Luxury, as a collaboration with vocalist Jeremy L. White in 2000.
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This was followed by works in the plays Cosmetic Enemy directed by Roman Kozak (the role of Textor Texel), King Lear by Yuri Butusov (Lear), for this work the actor was awarded the fourth National Theater Prize "Golden Mask", It's Not All Shrovetide for the Cat (the role of Ermil Zotych Ahov), and others. Konstantin Raikin works a lot in "Satyricon" as a director. He staged the plays Hercules and Augean Stables (together with Shkolnik, 1988), Mowgli (1990), Such Free Butterflies (1993), Romeo and Juliet (1995), Chioggino skirmishes (1997), The Quartet (1999), Chauntecleer (2001), The Land of Love (2004), Funny Money (2005), The Queen of Beauty (2007), The Lonely West (2007), The Blue Monster (2008), Profitable place (2003, 2009), Poplars and the Wind (2009), Money (2010).
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Over the next five years, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross toured all over the world and recorded such albums as Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross! (aka The Hottest New Group in Jazz, 1959), Sing Ellington (1960), High Flying (1962), and The Real Ambassadors (1962), written by Dave Brubeck and featuring Louis Armstrong and Carmen McRae. Ross left the group in 1962 and in 1964 opened a nightclub in London. Annie's Room hosted Joe Williams, Nina Simone, Stuff Smith, Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day, Jon Hendricks, and Erroll Garner. Her adulthood film roles included Liza in the film Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994).
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Demirer, who demonstrated a talent for singing and music at an early age, studied at Bursa Boys' High School before transferring in his final year and graduating with honours from Çelebi Mehmet High School. After leaving school he found work, with the help of his brothers, as a night club pianist. In 1991, he moved to Istanbul after being accepted on a music course at the Turkish State Conservatory at Istanbul Technical University. During his studies he started performing stand-up in bars and befriended Gökhan Semiz of Turkish comedy troop Vitamin Group and sang on their single Turkish Cowboys. His first professional performances were organised with the assistance of E.Ş.EK Theatre Group founder Uğur Uludağ and while performing in musical theater with the group in Assos he was offered the lead role in the 1995 production of Funny Money (Komik Para) at the Dormen Theatre.
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Kix reformed in late 2003 without songwriter and band leader Donnie Purnell. Kix then lined-up shows for September 2004, the lineup consisting of Whiteman (lead vocals), Younkins (guitars), Brian "Damage" Forsythe (guitars), Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant (drums, backing vocals), and Funny Money bassist/vocalist/songwriter Mark Schenker in place of Donnie Purnell. On August 7, 2012, Frontiers Records announced that it had signed Kix; the band subsequently released a live CD/DVD, titled Live in Baltimore, in September, with a new studio album to follow in 2013. On April 16, 2014, it was announced that the band had signed with Loud & Proud Records to release the band's first studio album in 19 years. On June 18, 2014, it was announced that the band would release this album - their seventh studio album - titled Rock Your Face Off, on August 5. Upon release, it debuted at #49 on the Billboard Top 200 (the band's second highest-charting record after 1988's Blow My Fuse), while debuting at #1 on Amazon Hard Rock, remaining there for more than three weeks.
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