Whose Likeness Should We Stick on American Money?: AKA These Presidents Are Boring

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It seems like other nations have much cooler people on their currencey than we do here in the states. Sure, we have Benjamin Franklin and Sacajawea on certain pieces and that's nice and everything. But it seems like there are dozens of other much more interesting Americans than guys like Alexander Hamilton throughout history who deserve to be commemorrated. Give me some guys like Duke Ellington or Gershwin or Lenny Bruce. Or just anybody who isn't Dwight Eisenhower.

It seems like Thomas Edison would be a good candidate for this kind of thing. Or, failing that, a clear-eyed dreamer the likes of Michael Bay.

Nominations please.

*awaits a .jpeg of Carlos Mencia*

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

We should stick with exactly what we have (because you know damn well that if we don't everything will wind up with Reagan on it).

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

H.R. Haldeman!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Is there still any of that talk going on about Reagan splitting the dime with FDR that conservatives vomited all over congress after he died? That was a pretty scary week.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Lou Reed

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

gg allin

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Carlos Mencia should be on the NOT FUNNY AND HORRIBLE bill.

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sun Ra!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

John Brown's head on the one side
John Brown's body on the other

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, definitely! (xpost)

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

F. Douglass
W. Whitman
A.E. Neuman
Trees

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bucky Fuller
Timothy Leary (on a color-shifting rainbow-hued Any Dollar Bill)

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Homer Simpson!

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Al Bundy!
& Peg!
and their dog!
& their bastard children.

(Homer's good choice too, sure nuff)

― tiit (tiit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I vote for:

Roger Williams (altho that might be tricky cuz I don't think anyone knows what he looked like...)
Richard Pryor
WS Burroughs
Louis Armstrong

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tony_Danza-300x380.jpg

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot about Mark Twain.

and Buster Keaton
and Muhammad Ali

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

btw, I'm not necessarily suggesting sticking any of these peoples' faces dead center on the bill. maybe just them on the back doing cool stuff.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

MLK jr
philip k dick
henry fonda
thomas edison
edward r murrow
jane elliot
james coburn
steve mcqueen
jack elam
woody strode
keith david
john carpenter
kurt russell(you can have 3 portraits: from the '80, '81, '86 eras)
james brown
muhammad ali
martin sheen
john lithgow as FDR
george washington carver
buzz aldrin
john glenn
bill murray
buckminister fuller
chuck yaeger

a nation should have scientists & engineers on their money, like the germans & italians do

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

okeh, scientists & engineers - and al bundy!!

― tiit (tiit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

john lithgow as FDR

hahahahaha totally

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

The Burroughs bill shouldn't be for any particular amount of money, but rather, will pay for one Mugwump hump.

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

andy warhol

― lf (lfam), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/dave225/hundo.jpg

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

patrick swayze

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

eugene v debs
lindsay lohan
me

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

star jones

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

george w. bush

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

VALERIE PLAME

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ben Franklin
Alexander Hamilton

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think the key words here should be "Baby Steps".

Try adding colour to some of those old farts.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

teri schiavo
hacksaw jim duggan
blowfly

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, obviously this sort of thing would probably take decades. especially considering how long it's taken them to revamp all the old bills (and they haven't even gotten to the $1 one yet).

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think anyone knows what he looked like...

http://www.philipmarshall.net/providence/Images/RI_Pvd_roger_williams_1_6.jpg

speculative?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

and they haven't even gotten to the $1 one yet).

they're not going to. they reworked the old bills to thwart counterfitters, you can't bleach the singles to create bogus higher denomination bills, the portraits don't line up. the five is going to be the last bill reworked, with new color and other security measures.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ol' Dirty Bastard.

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Uncle Moneybags, a.k.a. the little Monopoly guy

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

terry schiavo and blowfly seconded

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Disgruntled Goat
Uncle Ant
Brown-nose Bear
Flatulent Fox
Rich Uncle Skeleton
Ku Klux Klam
Dinner Dog

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

terry schiavo and blowfly seconded

When I had dinner with Blowfly, he insisted on telling me throught the meal that I was "eating Britney Spears pussy maggots".

So yeah, Blowfly.

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

triumph, the insult comic dog.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

PHIL LYNOTT

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

james brown

james brown should be "on the one"

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://pix.nofrag.com/26/fd/cc31e1286e382da5046b3423eccb.jpg

― Bucky Fullminster (vincent spano), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

(jon that statue of Roger Williams is def. speculative - according to the little bio I read a few months ago, no portraits painted of him during his lifetime exist)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

also it seems wrong that this thread's title does not somehow involve the phrase OTM

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

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