Women on the Twenty

[Bomb#20]

No problem. This is money we're talking about, after all. So put Elinor Ostrom on the $20. Then ditch Franklin, ditch the rest of the presidents, and distribute the freed-up denominations to Paul Samuelson, Kenneth Arrow, Milton Friedman... Alexander Hamilton can be grandfathered in.

Uncle milty..give me a break! That <expletive deleted> is part of our current economic problem...might as well put Harding on a bill!

I was going for a diversity of viewpoints. If you disapprove of that approach, feel free to provide a list of Nobel Prize economists who are all acceptably doctrinaire leftists.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Honestly, I don't think America is ready for its first black person of interest on currency yet.

Really, what if we moved to replace Andrew Jackson with Samuel L. Jackson?

Hmm... that could work. But maybe we'd just be better switching to animals with sexual innuendos for names. The boobie, tit mouse, cock, beaver, and an ass. It'd be so completely hilarious for a minute or so.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I change my vote from Bruce Willis. Janis Joplin would be a bitchin choice!!! She's already had her stamp, let's move her up to currency. Picture this: a psychedelic $20 with Janis wailing into the mic as the portrait. Back image: the Monterey Pop poster. Embedded in the bill is a micro-player. Press on Janis' mic and the bill plays Me and Bobby McGee. If you decide to smoke the bill --

 

[Toni]

Really, what if we moved to replace Andrew Jackson with Samuel L. Jackson?

Hmm... that could work. But maybe we'd just be better switching to animals with sexual innuendos for names. The boobie, tit mouse, cock, beaver, and an ass. It'd be so completely hilarious for a minute or so.

Yep. ANYthing but a woman. Or a black man.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

I change my vote from Bruce Willis. Janis Joplin would be a bitchin choice!!! She's already had her stamp, let's move her up to currency. Picture this: a psychedelic $20 with Janis wailing into the mic as the portrait. Back image: the Monterey Pop poster. Embedded in the bill is a micro-player. Press on Janis' mic and the bill plays Me and Bobby McGee. If you decide to smoke the bill --

Only one problem: we'll need to credit Kris Kristofferson with the writing of "Me and Bobby McGee".

 

[Eldarion Lathria]

Put Dogs and Chimps on the money.

Let's take people off all US Currency. Let's put dogs on the bills, Jason the Hush Puppy Basset Hound on the One, get rid of the two since nobody ever uses it, Rin Tin Tin on the five, Lassie on the ten, Balto the heroic sled dog on the twenty, Snoopy on the fifty and Scooby Doo on the hundred. Then instead of saying 'It's all about the Benjamins,' we would say 'It's all about the Scoobies.'

Let's put chimps on the coins, Phoebe B. Beebe on the cent, Bonzo on the nickel, J. Fred Muggs on the dime, Charlie the painting chimp on the quarter and Cheeta on the half dollar. Get rid of the dollar coin since nobody uses it.

Eldarion Lathria

 

[Draconis]

And now it appears we have another fuss developing over the £20 note: it seems the plan is to have visual artist (painter, sculptor, etc) on that, and it must be female, but there are very few female artists who are remotely well known enough. So perhaps get a man in drag instead?

 

[bilby]

And now it appears we have another fuss developing over the £20 note: it seems the plan is to have visual artist (painter, sculptor, etc) on that, and it must be female, but there are very few female artists who are remotely well known enough. So perhaps get a man in drag instead?

Hmm. A female widely known in the UK for her contribution to visual art?

How can they go past Samantha Fox?

 

[EricK]

And now it appears we have another fuss developing over the £20 note: it seems the plan is to have visual artist (painter, sculptor, etc) on that, and it must be female, but there are very few female artists who are remotely well known enough. So perhaps get a man in drag instead?

Grayson Perry?

 

[ZiprHead]

Benjamins, Sawbucks, finbacks, bucks, dough, bread, scratch, moolah, cheddar, smackers, simoleons, duckets... We like to nickname our money.

If we do put a woman on the twenty, what'll the slang term for it be? And how likely will it be a step forward for feminism.

Just thinking about my former peer group of sailors, and their incredible imagination when it comes to slang and anything female, feminine or even androgynous.

I imagine some pimp will think it quite clever to charge someone five bitches, for example, to hire one of his bitches. "Bitch better BE my money."

I could see that. "Here's a bitch. Keep the change."

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Americans, What about Mary Todd Lincoln?

She was a damn fine woman. She also was melancholy and will bring depression to the front.

 

[Draconis]

And now it appears we have another fuss developing over the £20 note: it seems the plan is to have visual artist (painter, sculptor, etc) on that, and it must be female, but there are very few female artists who are remotely well known enough. So perhaps get a man in drag instead?

Hmm. A female widely known in the UK for her contribution to visual art?

How can they go past Samantha Fox?

The other problem is they have to be dead.

I don't really wish ill on her, but it might help.

 

[dismal]

And now it appears we have another fuss developing over the £20 note: it seems the plan is to have visual artist (painter, sculptor, etc) on that, and it must be female, but there are very few female artists who are remotely well known enough. So perhaps get a man in drag instead?

Hmm. A female widely known in the UK for her contribution to visual art?

How can they go past Samantha Fox?

Seems like you go with the Spice Girls and you check at least 3 or 4 identity politics boxes. You get your ginger, your black woman, your soccer WAG, and one of them must be some sort of LGBTQIA.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/treasury-put-woman-10-bill-n377311

A woman will go on the $10 in 2020.

https://thenew10.treasury.gov

 

[Metaphor]

The Australian current affair chat show 'The Drum' held a poll on which American woman should be on the US$10 and Rosa Parks held the lead by a substantial margin.

 

[whichphilosophy]

There is a movement to put a woman on the twenty dollar bill. There is a website, and there has been a vote.

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Do you think it is time for a woman to be on a bill, and if so who?

Yes I vote the Statue of Liberty

 

[James Brown]

It's time we had minority representation as well. Let's go ahead and put Obama on one, but only distribute them in Texas. That would make for some quality entertainment.

"Keep Government Hands Off My Money!"

(Protest sign coming to a Tea Party Rally near you.)

 

[Tigers!]

No Australian continues to prefer paper notes after their first experience of putting a pair of jeans through the wash with $20 still in the pocket.

What's a $20 look like? I've never had enough money to see one of those.

Actually I liked the old paper $100, called the 'grey nurse' (as in shark). It always gave me a feeling of security and wealth to hold one.

 

[Draconis]

When are we getting someone with ginger hair or flat feet on the banknotes?

If that's not important, why is getting a woman on them important?

 

[Tigers!]

And now it appears we have another fuss developing over the £20 note: it seems the plan is to have visual artist (painter, sculptor, etc) on that, and it must be female, but there are very few female artists who are remotely well known enough. So perhaps get a man in drag instead?

Hmm. A female widely known in the UK for her contribution to visual art?

How can they go past Samantha Fox?

She was certainly visual but not so sure about the art.