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  • #32
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    goose2005 wrote: »
    those nobs again. Connolly was left of Lenin and would hate modern Ireland and the modern Labour party

    Robert Boyle - chemistry, physics

    Samuel Beckett - literature

    Daniel O'Connell - politics

    Hamilton - mathematics

    Harry Ferguson - farming, engineering

    some trad. musicians

    Ronnie Drew on a Fiver

    Phil Linnot on the Tenner

    Rory Gallagher on the Twenty

    Dara O'Briain on the Fifty (who say you have to be dead to appear on money)

    Wouldn't worry about the higher notes, the Punt will be worth feck all so chance are you'll never see em in circulation so it won't matter a sh1te!


  • #33
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,835 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Richard Dunne on a note. And Sean O'Brien too.


  • #34
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    dulpit wrote: »
    Richard Dunne on a note. And Sean O'Brien too.

    Yep, the fiver.

    http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/RichardDunneIrelandVRussiaSept52011SPORTSFILE_large-1.jpg


  • #35
    cowzerp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Well you'd be wrong there and let me tell you why.

    before any of this fancy karate or computers, now I'm probably showing my age here but back in the early 90s Jack Charlton was the manager of the Irish football team, us youngens painted the paths green white and orange, pints were flowing, punts were glowing, penny jellies cost a penny and 5 year olds could buy packets of smokes, well although the 'punt was the official currency, we'd say 'pounds' as in 'can I have 5 pounds?' - you'd probably not understand but it would be the equalant of asking you for €6.35.

    So I hope you can see punts were actually called pounds so my joke would work!

    In my estate we painted houses green white and orange during the world cup of 1990, Karate-what are you on about, you can still call your Euro pounds if you really want, fact is we have not been pounds since i was a small kid, ok smarthole

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • #36
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    broll wrote: »
    is it time to start printing the punt,this euro has being a diaster

    You say punt, I raise you STERLING.


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  • #37
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Stephen Gately - £50 note
    Katy French - £20 note
    Gerry Ryan - £10 note
    Bertie Ahern - £9 note
    All of Westlife - £5 note


  • #38
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,835 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    RayM wrote: »
    Bertie Ahern - £9 note

    Why £9?

    Also, when the punt returns we need a new symbol, £ is boring...


  • #39
    shanered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    mikemac wrote: »
    Which famous people are we going to be put on the bank notes?
    Charlie Haughey
    Bertie Ahern
    And my favorite! :D Brian Cowen!!!
    It could be a reminder to never elect a pack of gob****es again!


  • #40
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    RayM wrote: »
    Stephen Gately - £50 note
    Katy French - £20 note
    Gerry Ryan - £10 note
    Bertie Ahern - £9 note
    All of Westlife - £5 note

    LOVE IT!!!!!! Bertine on a Niner...

    Isn't there a rhyme or something about the crooked man

    There was a crooked man
    Who had a crooked smile,
    He had a crooked sixpence
    and walked a crooked mile...

    Or something like that anyway, I can't remember it exactly


  • #41
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    dulpit wrote: »
    Why £9?

    Also, when the punt returns we need a new symbol, £ is boring...

    Dunno if it was the reasoning but I'd imagine cos the idea of a 9 pound note is a bit dodgy!!!!

    I'm open to correction ;)


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  • #42
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    shanered wrote: »
    Charlie Haughey
    Bertie Ahern
    And my favorite! :DBrian Cowen!!!
    It could be a reminder to never elect a pack of gob****es again!

    Brian Cowen should go on a 1p note. Cheap enough so everyone could wipe their' arse with him.


  • #43
    shanered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    Sure by time we got back to the punt the paper should be fairly worthless anyways!


  • #44
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Gay Byrne on the £5
    David McWilliams on the £10
    John Waters on the £20
    Brendan O'Connor on the £50

    I like this game :D


  • #45
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    RayM wrote: »
    Stephen Gately - £50 note
    Katy French - £20 note
    Gerry Ryan - £10 note
    Bertie Ahern - £9 note
    All of Westlife - £5 note

    And they could come pre-rolled up too. Hmmmm, convenient!


  • #46
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    shanered wrote: »
    Sure by time we got back to the punt the paper should be fairly worthless anyways!

    We could just print the notes on really expensive paper then. Problem solved.


  • #47
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    http://www.complex.com/girls/2011/03/the-50-hottest-irish-women/kristen-bell

    Famous hot Irish women should go on the big notes. A special topless print for eh....... collectors like meself would sell well IMO.


  • #48
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    If they do print the punt then they shouldn't bother printing anything over the £20 note because no-one will have any money anyway.

    Just the opposite I'd say, if they start printing the punt it will devalue so quickly we will need to start printing £1 trillion notes after a week.


  • #49
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    If they do print the punt then they shouldn't bother printing anything over the £20 note because no-one will have any money anyway.
    Works the opposite way actually, because the new currency would end up being devalued we'll need millions of punts to buy a loaf of bread - wheelbarrow anybody?

    Edit: Damn you Knasher: Beat me to it


  • #50
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    4leto wrote: »
    Put Bertie's head on the punt as a reminder.

    A picture of his head or his actual head? If the latter, it would serve as a warning to the rest.


  • #51
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    dj jarvis wrote: »
    LOL so now pointing out fact is condescending ???

    methinks ye be a bit sensitive - if i was really trying 2 be condescending, you would still be curled up in a ball under your kitchen table bawling like a little girl after getting bitch slapped.

    Pointing out a fact is not condescending as long as you don't do so in a condescending manner, which you clearly did.

    It's not a case of me being sensitive about it - just aware that it's completely unescessary to use a tone of superiority when arguing a point with someone.


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  • #52
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Kev_ps3 wrote: »
    agreed, weak liberals who hate Irish sovereignty hate the idea of Ireland having it own currency, I think its a no brainer.

    A currencies value is a reflection of the strength of your economy. You don't launch a currency when your in recession because it would be worthless.

    sure a worthless currency is good for exports but you wouldnt be able to import anything because no-one wants your useless punt nuas. and considering we import nearly all of our food, energy, clothing, raw materials that would leave us back in the stone age.

    but on the other hand, there is blind ignorant nationalism to consider.


  • #53
    stewie01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭stewie01


    ?50 note = merkel
    ?100 note = mugabe
    ?250 note = nigerian finance minister

    ? = new symbol


  • #54
    maygitchell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭maygitchell


    stewie01 wrote: »
    ?50 note = merkel
    ?100 note = mugabe
    ?250 note = nigerian finance minister

    ? = new symbol

    \O/
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    / \


  • #55
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    5-Queen Elizabeth II
    10-Queen Elizabeth II
    20-Queen Elizabeth II
    50-Queen Elizabeth II
    100-Queen Elizabeth II


  • #56
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Pointing out a fact is not condescending as long as you don't do so in a condescending manner, which you clearly did.

    It's not a case of me being sensitive about it - just aware that it's completely unescessary to use a tone of superiority when arguing a point with someone.


    no seriously im intrigued at what part of my original post i was being condescending ???

    you may think i was being so, but trust i was not and no reason for being so

    so please highlight the condescending part and re post it for me, because i have re read it many times now and im just not getting this AT ALL :eek:

    maybe YOU should perhaps re read my post with a fresh set of eyes because for the life of me neither me or my colleagues can find the " offending " line or paragraph


  • #57
    broll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭broll


    sure if the euro goes were going to need a currency in reserve or else they will be panic


  • #58
    Peep O'Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Peep O'Day


    goose2005 wrote: »
    those nobs again. Connolly was left of Lenin and would hate modern Ireland and the modern Labour party

    Robert Boyle - chemistry, physics

    Samuel Beckett - literature

    Daniel O'Connell - politics

    Hamilton - mathematics

    Harry Ferguson - farming, engineering

    some trad. musicians

    Yes they sure were knobs all right, curse them and their attempts at liberty for the island, the swines :rolleyes:

    I'd have the great Robert Emmet commemorated on a note were the punt to make a come back.


  • #59
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,314 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    broll wrote: »
    sure if the euro goes were going to need a currency in reserve or else they will be panic

    If the Euro goes then having a ready source of worthless coloured bits of paper with pictures of irish celebrities on them is not going to stop the panic.


  • #60
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Peep O'Day wrote: »
    Yes they sure were knobs all right, curse them and their attempts at liberty for the island, the swines :rolleyes:

    I'd have the great Robert Emmet commemorated on a note were the punt to make a come back.

    you missunderstand. nobs means 'noble old boys'


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  • #61
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Problem solved!

    http://wordtowise.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/monopolymoney.jpg


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