Fly me to the moon and let me dance among the stars...
Decimalism takes off! My Quixotic and inevitably doomed attempt to reform American coinage is gaining support. I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the future Treasurer of the United States, David, who yesterday unveiled a couple of proposed re-designs for American currency.
David has a little follow-up work to do, of course. He based his new bills on the old, symetrical currency instead of the big-face money that's been introduced to thwart counterfeiters. Also, he put Frank Sinatra on the $10 note, which is simply unacceptable. Frank belongs on the C-note, the perfect medium for tipping underlings and large-breasted hat-check girls, not on the ten-spot, which no gentleman would even bother to pick up off the bar. I'm guessing David missed that one because he didn't have a $100 bill to scan, since he lives in Montana where the primary medium of exchange remains palm-sized bags of gold nuggets. (And where, interestingly enough, old timers still use the phrase "by crackie!")
Decimalists across the land are awaiting David's design of the "fifth," the new 20-cent coin that will replace the Decimalist-unfriendly quarter. Get on it David. You've got a whole weekend ahead of you. Maybe we can see something Monday morning, first thing?
I'm working on it!
Posted by: david | 06/22/2004 at 07:03 AM