When the IMF runs out.....

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Dunno about beds but perhaps beads? That is a shiny currency.

[anthrobabe]

Little white fuzzy socks are the perfect currency when the IMF runs out.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Lint, with dryer lint as the preferred form.

[Griffin NoName]

Magpies would steal shiny beads.

But white fuzzy lint bikini bottoms might be a useful currency

[Swatopluk]

Admit it, you got that idea from Stanislaw Lem (The Uranium Ears in Robot Fairytales) and/or from the Journal of Irreproducible Results!

The new currency will be hijacked ideas (bad ones for debts)

No.  Never heard of Stanislaw Lem, actually (or Robot Fairytales)

JIR, I have read and it may be from that, but I don't remember.

What I _DO_ remember, is when I was in High School, my friends had a social club called "The Universe Club" (back in the 70's).  We divided up the local star clusters, (including Sol) and I proposed using the Noble Gasses as currency (encased in suitable bottles, obviously).  One member pointed out that radon is radioactive.  I immediately proposed that this gas be reserved for the $100 equivalent value, to help keep currency in circulation....

....years later, the idea grew from that.

That too is actually in the Robot fairy-tales.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboterm%C3%A4rchen
The first tale (3 Elektritter = 3 Electro-Knights) is about the attempt to steal the riches of a very cold planet inhabited by people consisting of frozen gases. Precious stones made from the noble gases are among those riches.

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The new currency will be alternating current (works even better in German)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

DC with superconductors works better.

The new currency will be solar cells.

[Pachyderm]

The Ningi and the Triganic Pu will be the new currency.

[Griffin NoName]

Half baked references to Arthur Dent will be the new currency.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Towels will be the new currency.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Tartan will be the new currency.

Plaid will be considered counterfeit and subsequently banned from everywhere-- only genuine tartan will count. 

I know, I know, much gnashing of teeth in backcountry USA, but in a generation or two, it will pass, with no loss to the species.

[Griffin NoName]

What we need is a hype on activity. Tartrazine (E102) will be the new currency.

[Swatopluk]

I thought E605 was the thing (as nasty as capitalism on a rampage)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parathion

[Pachyderm]

Plaid will be considered counterfeit and subsequently banned from everywhere-- only genuine tartan will count. 


And Bob joins the ranks of the honorary Scots as well.



How about we have a labour-based currency, like they do in The Demon Princes?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Mmm, not so sure about that.

The new currency shall be Domo-Kun figurines.

[Swatopluk]

The new currency is hope