THE MONOPOLY MAN WITH THE MOUSTACHE, TOPHAT AND CIGAR

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THE ORIGINAL "CAPITALIST" MONOPOLY BOARD GAME PIECE WAS MODELED AFTER J.P. MORGAN

THE MONOPOLY MAN WITH THE MOUSTACHE, TOPHAT AND CIGAR: J.P. MORGAN, founder, Federal Reserve System


In 1910, New Yorker J.P. MORGAN sat around a mansion on Jeckyl Island (off the coast of Georgia) with six other men who owned approx. one-quarter of the world's wealth and devised the "FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING SYSTEM." They met in secret to create the Federal Reserve............(read more and see the video)
http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?itemid=57

[leveymg]

1. J.P. was an ugly bastard with a syphilitic nose and brain. That must be the young Morgan.

[Sal Minella]

2. Rhinophyma from rosacea perhaps, and not syph?

http://www.suite101.com/view_image.cfm/1104873

[leveymg]

4. That's just a running gag to exchange with the RW. They chuckled and claimed FDR's

paralysis was really syphilis, and that he ate baby bunnies for breakfast every morning.



Back atcha . . .

[mojowork_n]

5. A particularly virulent form of rosacea...

the wiki page sez:

His deformed nose was due to a disease called rhinophyma, which can result from rosacea. As the deformity worsens, pits, nodules, fissures, lobulations, and pedunculation contort the nose. This condition inspired the crude taunt "Johnny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue."

J.P. Morgan, best known for saying, "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it," when asked about the cost of yacht ownership.

[janet118]

3. That is one large schnoz . . .

The better to smell you with, my dear.

"Ha-cha-cha-chaaaaaaa!" - Jimmy Durante