Conspiracy theorists would have you believe that the logo of this possibly shady training organisation appears on the new English £20 note, the one with Adam Smith on the back. Get one out and have a look to see if you can find it. (If you don’t have one, take your pick HERE).
Convinced? I’m not, the connections are way too tenuous and I can’t see any pyramids and all seeing eyes either. Banknotes certainly have concealed motifs but they are more to do with fraud prevention. For example, look for those circles on the left arranged in the pattern shown, this pattern will cause software to reject scanning in some cases. This pattern is very obvious on older £20 notes, they were arranged as musical notes, fitting in with the Elgar theme. I keep meaning to try photocopying a £20 note to see if the EURion Constellation feature will be detected and rebelled against by the machine. (An explanation of EURion can be found over at Wikipedia).
These tangential circle motifs are all too common and I’m sure my cousins had a Spirograph set as a kid that could produce something similar, especially if the pens were starting to run out. Spirographs- the last resort of wet Sunday afternoons or being Grounded! Not something you could do on an Etch-A-Sketch though, although you could scrape all of the powder off the window and see the innards if you were very, very bored…
What I did notice today, however, was reporting of the Queen’s Speech and a flurry of outspoken opinions in the blogosphere, none of which I have seen (so far) are complimentary about the Education and Skills Bill (apart from Mike Ion, of course). For non-Brits, this is compulsury education up until age 18, rather than 16 as of at present. As a ROSLA kid, I saw the detrimental effect it had on our school 5th year by the idiots, who, compelled to stay against their (& the school’s) better judgement just made it a misery for everyone else. No doubt a couple of them went back into further education afterwards but they probably wanted to by then.
Is there an EU connection in all this? I’m not certain. However, I don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist do recognise the signs of this,to confirm if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, look here .
Why do people always invoke the term “conspiracy theorist” at the first sign of something out of the ordinary?
Comment by jameshigham — November 8, 2007 @ 10:37 am
James, it is the first step to subtly rubbishing the contrarian, implying that they have a tin foil hat.
Comment by Shades — November 8, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
[...] wondered yesterday what would happen if I tried to photocopy a £20 [...]
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