"I honestly don't know why people who live in Action Movie World even bother *having* fruit stalls"

For obvious reasons, I can't afford to practice the models from Dollar Bill Animals in Origami very often. Which is rather a pity, as so many of them are good -- this was the first book where John Montroll worked seriously at models without a split back. So instead, when I get the itch, I take it out of the house, among people, and make an offer: give me a suitably crisp bill of any denomination, I'll fold the animal of your choice.

Last week, a co-worker ponied up some brand-new $100 bills: a family friend was giving her children a Benjamin each for the holidays, and she decided she wanted to be cruel about it. Well, rationalized as making her kids think hard about how badly they wanted to spend it. But really, it was about the evil of the pretty.

Or as I put it to janni, that was the most expensive elephant I've ever folded.

---L.