BORAT WAS RIGHT

The Kazakhstan government gets really annoyed because Borat, the fictional reporter from Kazakhstan created by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, portrays the country as backwards and something less than smart.  The kind of country that would spell “bank” wrong on its own money.  Oh, hey, guess what:

The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said Wednesday.  The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge ($15) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

It's kinda awesome that the bank had to announce that they misspelled "bank".  It has to be a good feeling knowing that your national bank doesn't really sweat the details.  "10, 20, whatever, it's practically the same".   If this country packed your parachute, you'd pull the rip chord and firewood would come out.  And your only hope would be to aim for someone fat and hope you can bounce.