This is England #4
This is England #4
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.
Charles Darwin on the £10 note. Hey creationists, everytime I spend a tenner a fish grows legs!
—- ?Sent using a Sony Ericsson mobile phone
This is England #4
Originally uploaded by Gurrier.
Charles Darwin on the £10 note. Hey creationists, everytime I spend a tenner a fish grows legs!
—- ?Sent using a Sony Ericsson mobile phone
July 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
…and every time I spend a penny legions of bacteria gain sentience as they are washed by my divine excreta. Their first and only thought is one of utter awe, a mode they remain in until their cilia break right off and their vital enzyme processes break down. But they don’t care. To them, it is bliss.
I always feel good when I see Darwin passin’ through the old wallet.
Makes you wonder though: what greats will make it on to the currency of the future? Do we judge them on their impact on the world of art, engineering and science, or aesthetic merit?
For instance, assuming he doesn’t defect to Canada, will Hawking make the cut?
I’m drinking today, sorry.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:41 am
We only have our boring old bridges on the euro. It was the only thing bland enough for everyone to agree on.
I’m all for a few scientists, but no bloody politicians. It’ll probably be Lady Thatcher and Boris Johnson, followed by Sir Alan Sugar and the winner of a reality show called “Mr. Broooon, Put me on the Poooond!”
Hawking would be a fine choice. Tim Berners Lee? I would have said Crick and Watson up until I heard about the Watson’s recent weird racist science theories.
It would be nice to have a DNA helix on the £20 note. The Science Pound! ‘That will be two science pounds please and a Boris Johnson.’
July 21st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hey, now – Crick / Watson were idiots before then, stealing their theories from a female coworker. Or maybe that’d be a good thing – put them on the bill, knowing what they’ve done. Yeah, sounds about right … although that should qualify them for being on the US bills, more like.