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Modesty forbids I actually suggest the Ridgely.

I said it before: the barack, dammit. It is our only hope!

Or the Kaz... has a nice ring to it.
OR "los huguitos"

The paw. They would be shaped like paws. Five toes make a paw. Four paws make a kitten. Ten kittens make a kindle. Ten kindles make a happy.

Seriously, somebody needs to put me in charge of something already. I'm awesome.

For a site populated by alleged libertarians I'm surprised and dismayed nobody has suggested the obvious. I now present the prelim design of the New World Order^TM global currency, coming to a federal reserve branch near you,

The FIAT.

I looked at the headline of the article that Aresen linked to -- "Nobel-prize winner backs world currency" -- and I thought, "What a great idea! A currency backed by Nobel-prize winners!"

(I assume all the Nobel-prize winners would be kept in a vault somewhere. Maybe Geneva.)

Really, it's brilliant. Nobel-prize winners are intrinsically very valuable, aren't they? Aren't they even more rare than gold?

The currency would be called "the Nobellar," of course.

This is a good idea, Warren. What's more, I think the position could come with a stipend. Ellie should get 100 Spankings per day.

I admit, I had to vote for the dollar given the long history of the word. The Reichsthaler became the thaler, which became the dollar. In it's overlap with the reale, it's practically been a world currency already.

But, I could just as easily gor for the "Funny" as in funny money.

I like good old names like ducat, florin, and solidus, but I fear to give them to anything new for fear that the name will be tarnished by association with the new currency.