The highlight of a five-dollar bill's existence...

... is to be stuffed into an undulating G-string. But it won't be happening in Seattle anymore.

By a G-string-thin margin, the Seattle City Council yesterday approved tough new rules governing conduct in strip clubs.

The council voted 5-4 to approve an ordinance that will require clubs to keep dancers and patrons at least four feet apart, install a 3-foot railing between the stage and audience, ban direct tipping and install brighter lighting...

"Without being prudes, we can be prudent," [Councilman Nick] Licata said.

In the city that Boeing built, I predict that there will be a new craze for folding bills into paper airplanes and competing for marksmanship.