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[Yanlin]

This reminds me of an old joke. But I wont tell it. Cause it sucks.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

And interesting point to make, as you may be unwares of it, Scotland acctually has its own currency. Called the Scottish pound or something. Its the same as English Sterling in EVERY SINGLE WAY, but the scottish are stupidly nationalistic and so want their own currency for the sake of having one.

Damn haggis-eating drunks.

[DJ]

Try reading my post again. Bill gates doesn't have enough money to buy a cure for AIDS? If he spent all his money on researching a cure, give him a year or two, he'd fucking have a cure for fucking AIDS.

If that fails, he did not use enough of it.

This argument can never fail. If anything fails, it needs more money.

Now, don't hang on
nothing last forever
but the earth and sky
it slips away

And all your money
won't another minute buy

[The Mad Engineer]

I say we make freshly baked cookies available as legal tender.


If you want to buy something, give the shopkeeper a nice, warm choco-chip cookie.  Once the cookie is stale, it is no longer allowed.

We could have exchange rates, too.  Like 10 apples=1 cookie.  But it has to be edible.

If this catches on, we could eliminate world hunger simply by donating to charities.

[umiman]

Money can really be anything, so there's nothing wrong with your idea except the fact that it's fucking difficult to keep cookies and bring around enough cookies with you while keeping them intact or at least not in itty bitty crumbs.

[inaluct]

Well, we could just have notes that serve as representations of cookies, like we do now with gold. 10 cookie bills, and stuff like that.

[JoshuaFH]

and Banks can be replaced with giant frickin' bakeries that work non-stop.

[inaluct]

Exactly. The cookie supply would have to be held constant. New cookies would need to be baked at the same rate that old cookies were going stale. Cookies would be held in cold storage, to maximize freshness.

[umiman]

So much waste...

[JoshuaFH]

So much waste...

So much deliciousness...

[Creamcorn]

This isn't a serious thread. I just came across this:

Michael Jordan having "retired," with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.

If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.

If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there.

If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.

He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $200 every second.

He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.

He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100-meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.

This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined.

Amazing isn't it?

However...

If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 500 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has at this very moment.

Game over. Nerd wins.

Don't know whether it's true or not, but it sure as hell is funny.

MmmmmmmmMMMMMM, MMM! That's alot of one dollar buritos!

[Karlito]

There are a lot of those weird currencies, like there is a Connecticut dollar. Hell, technically tickets from those mini golf places are a currency they just aren't accepted widely. It's acceptance of something that makes it official tender of a location. In Cambodia there is the riel, but the American dollar is widely accepted, sometimes at a better price. The riel however is not accepted in the US.

Ecuador runs completely off the American dollar, but they mint their own coins for some reason.  And they really only accept $5 or $1 bills and even then they are constantly on the lookout for counterfeit $5's.

[Keiseth]

I was going to go see a movie, but my $20 was gone when I checked my pocket. I guess that's what I get for paying in hot soup.

[Nilocy]

I guess scotland deserves to have their own money tbh, it was us who invented capitalism, and the first bank. So yeah, communists come over here and buuuurn!!!

[DJ]

If you really want to spite the English, adopt Euro.