[Question] Who should be on our cash?

[drawn_inward]

So, the Brits put writers and scientists on their monies. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23424289

Who should we put on ours?

Writers:
Poe, Hawthorne, Alcott, Clemens

Scientists:
Graham Bell, Edison, Carver, Watson

Who else? Any contemporaries? Should Obama get a note?

 

[Gusto]

Bell was Canadian. Don't co-opt him for your greenbacks.

 

[Espy]

Can we just start renting out that space for celebrities and companies?

 

[Dave]

Obama should NOT. Nor should anyone from any religion, with the possible exception of maybe Martin Luthor King, Jr, but he'd be there for civil rights, not the religious angle.[DOUBLEPOST=1374698398][/DOUBLEPOST]

Can we just start renting out that space for celebrities and companies?

Please deposit your AT&T $1 bill for assistance!

 

[drawn_inward]

Bell was Canadian. Don't co-opt him for your greenbacks.

Technically he's a Scott!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

 

[Chad Sexington]

Bell was Canadian. Don't co-opt him for your greenbacks.

He was born in Scotland, and moved to and did a lot of his major work in Canada, but was a naturalised American at the end of his life. So...

 

[drawn_inward]

Obama should NOT. Nor should anyone from any religion, with the possible exception of maybe Martin Luthor King, Jr, but he'd be there for civil rights, not the religious angle.[DOUBLEPOST=1374698398][/DOUBLEPOST]

Please deposit your AT&T $1 bill for assistance!

I certainly can't think of a single U.S. religious figure that deserves to be recognized in such a way.

 

[Officer_Charon]

*Scot.

Walt Whitman doesn't get a mention? For shame... And if you include Poe, might as well toss in Lovecraft, too.

 

[Gusto]

I stand corrected.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I think Bill Clinton should be on the $1 bill, to be placed into the g-strings of strippers.[DOUBLEPOST=1374698950][/DOUBLEPOST]I also agree with Drawn_Inward and OC. I should be on our money.

 

[drawn_inward]

*Scot.

Walt Whitman doesn't get a mention? For shame... And if you include Poe, might as well toss in Lovecraft, too.

It was a quick list, sir. I know I have left out tons of great writers: Steinbeck, Thoreau, Stowe, Dickinson, Melville, Faulkner.....

However, Lovecraft >= Poe? Nope.

 

[Cajungal]

*Scot.

Walt Whitman doesn't get a mention? For shame... And if you include Poe, might as well toss in Lovecraft, too.

I celebrate my money! I sing my money!

I wonder if Tesla fans would get all up in arms about Edison money...

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

We need to stick to dead presidents so we don't ruin a whole lot of amazing rap verses

 

[Cajungal]

We need to stick to dead presidents so we don't ruin a whole lot of amazing rap verses

I wouldn't mind seeing different kinds of famous people raining on top of bitches.

 

[drifter]

Mark Twain

Not writers exactly, but I'd love seeing Robert Johnson or Chuck Berry in there.

 

[figmentPez]

Obama should NOT. Nor should anyone from any religion, with the possible exception of maybe Martin Luthor King, Jr, but he'd be there for civil rights, not the religious angle.

I agree with not putting up anyone because of their religion, but I really don't think there needs to be an exception made simply because someone who did great things did it as part of their religion. What about Fred "Mr." Rogers? I think some of his work on children's television has done more to shape the youth of this nation than many others. He did it as a Presbyterian minister, and even had a special commission from the church to do so, but he, arguably, had even less overt religious messages in his teaching than MLKjr did.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I agree with not putting up anyone because of their religion, but I really don't think there needs to be an exception made simply because someone who did great things did it as part of their religion. What about Fred "Mr." Rogers? I think some of his work on children's television has done more to shape the youth of this nation than many others. He did it as a Presbyterian minister, and even had a special commission from the church to do so, but he, arguably, had even less overt religious messages in his teaching than MLKjr did.

I'm sorry, I don't care how good a neighbor he was, we can't have Mr Rogers on our money.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

I can't believe any of you didn't mention the most obvious choice. There's only ONE man in the past or present that should be on American money.

Wayne motherfucking Brady.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Do it like the Euro, let each state have a go at who to put on their bills.

Sam Houston for Texas, and Jerry Brown for California.

 

[Necronic]

I want a twenty dollar bill with Reagan and Carter fighting to the death.

 

[Cajungal]

Bill Nye? OOH, Alton Brown.

 

[Tress]

I made a list of every influential American I could think of whose contributions were not only noteworthy but laudable. I feel like you could take any name off this list, immortalize them on our currency, and have it be a worthy choice. In (somewhat) random order:

• George Washington
• Mark Twain
• John Adams
• John Marshall
• Susan B. Anthony
• FDR
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Martin Luther King, Jr
• The Wright Brothers
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Andrew Carnegie
• Jackie Robinson
• Walt Disney
• Frederick Douglass
• Thomas Jefferson
• Earl Warren
• Benjamin Franklin
• Louis Armstrong
• Walt Witman
• Lewis and Clarke
• Ronald Reagan
• Stephen Spielberg
• Elvis
• Bill Gates
• Henry Ford
• Abraham Lincoln
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Thomas Paine
• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton
• George Gershwin
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Cesar Chavez

 

[Necronic]

In all seriousness though why anyone other than a president? I'm pretty happy with who we have on our coinage already, except for that one dude on the half dollar that almost started a nuclear war and did start one of the worst wars in the US.

 

[Tress]

In all seriousness though why anyone other than a president?

You're making Franklin, Anthony, Sacagawea, and Hamilton cry.

 

[drawn_inward]

In all seriousness though why anyone other than a president? I'm pretty happy with who we have on our coinage already, except for that one dude on the half dollar that almost started a nuclear war and did start one of the worst wars in the US.

I just like the idea of having other folks on money besides politicians. Maybe it would make kids think about literature and science a bit more, thus more science and art funding in the future. Wishful thinking?

 

[figmentPez]

Bill Nye? OOH, Alton Brown.

While I am a big fan of AB, they're both living. I tend to think that any persons put on stamps or currency should have it done posthumously.

 

[Cajungal]

While I am a big fan of AB, they're both living. I tend to think that any persons put on stamps or currency should have it done posthumously.

Those weren't really serious... still would be cool.

 

[Gryfter]

I'm sorry, I don't care how good a neighbor he was, we can't have Mr Rogers on our money.

Fred Rogers has something to add...

Spoiler

 

[Chad Sexington]

While I am a big fan of AB, they're both living. I tend to think that any persons put on stamps or currency should have it done posthumously.

In fact I believe there is a law that they have to be dead to appear on currency. I may be mistaken.

 

[Sparhawk]

Do it like the Euro, let each state have a go at who to put on their bills.

Sam Houston for Texas, and Jerry Brown for California.

Stephen F. Austin or Jim Bowie.

 

[strawman]

Put whatever you can on the currency to make it collectible. Foil Pokemon cards for all I care.

Just make it valuable and attractive.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Stephen F. Austin or Jim Bowie.

I could see Austin, but a killer and a slave trader won't make it on the bills in this day and age.

 

[Sparhawk]

I could see Austin, but a killer and a slave trader won't make it on the bills in this day and age.

Hey, as long as it isn't Shelia Jackson Lee for Texas I'm gonna be okay, probably the same for Kinky Friedman.

 

[bhamv3]

Put whatever you can on the currency to make it collectible. Foil Pokemon cards for all I care.

Just make it valuable and attractive.

I second putting Pokemon on money.

1 dollar: Ratatta
5 dollars: Pikachu
10 dollars: Chansey
20 dollars: Snorlax
50 dollars: Dragonite
100 dollars: Mewtwo

 

[sixpackshaker]

Kinky Friedman.

Why the hell not?!

-for the non-Texans, that was Kinky's campaign slogan when he ran for Governor.