Women on bank notes.

[ComedyPilot]

There was a piece on the BBC news about Jane Austin (the bionic woman) replacing Charles Darwin as the face on the £10.00 note. The presenter said it was sweet irony that the founder of evolution is replaced by a woman...something about money evolving...?

They seem to forget Queen Liz has had her fizzog on every piece of currency for the last 61 years or so....?

Unless Liz doesn't count as a woman?

 

[srw]

Brenda is there because of who she is. The others are there because of what they've done.

 

[Maz]

Apparently Austen's brother, Henry, was a banker by profession, who subsequently went bankrupt. And she ends up on a bank note.
There's irony.

 

[colly]

Are they always dead people on notes ? M or F

Edit: Other than Liz.

 

[TheDoctor]

Pretty sure the Queen's not dead!!

 

[ComedyPilot]

So Jane Austin' there because she wrote something?

Who next, J.K Rowling on a fiver?

No offense to Austin, but replacing Darwin with her ....?

 

[biggs682]

i reckon Katie Humble ought to be next

 

[pauldavid]

i reckon Katie Humble ought to be next

So do I, tell her to pop round and I'll start working myself up!

In the eantime, what about these women on banknotes

 

[biggs682]

please explain these bank note you keep mentioning !

 

[Crackle]

eh, I thought this was about lap dancers.

 

[Saluki]

Sweet irony eh. Someone's been reading their Eyre.

 

[ASC1951]

So Jane Austin's there because she wrote something?

Who next, J.K Rowling on a fiver?

No offense to Austin, but replacing Darwin with her ....?

You can't have Darwin on everything; and she is certainly England's greatest woman writer. I assume you haven't read any, otherwise you would at least spell her name correctly (and 'offence', come to that.)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Wait until they put Mrs Thatcher on a note ....

 

[mark st1]

Page 3 girls on notes might help lift our economy.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Wait until they put Mrs Thatcher on a note ....

...and she reappears to say ''I want my money back!''