Inefficient Units of Currency August 7, 2009 at 6:41 am
By Joseph Streckert, from the Canadian literary magazine McSweeney’s:
- Children
- Millstones
- Imaginary euros*
- Copies of Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 7**
- Pieces of long-grain rice that are not actually very long
- Unicorn heads
- Canadian dollars
*Arguably, the ECU (which worked perfectly well as a currency) was imaginary.
**Vol. 7 is I suspect now a collector’s item. The current volume is 73.
