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[caddyman]

Pointless things occupying my mind right now include the observation, arrived at after watching Great Expectations on the BBC over the Christmas break, that if Goths ever managed to get their act together and form an independent state, the currency would have to be the Havisham.

Now I realise that Miss Havisham is an eternal bride in waiting and always dressed in white rather than black, but she is the undisputed queen of deranged literary ‘Emo’. This brings me to the minor unit of currency, which would clearly be the Emo. I guess the logical make up would be One Havisham is made up from 100 Emos, but that seems too simple, so I think it would be more likely to be based upon pre-decimal coinage, so there would have to be 240 Emos to the Havisham. Of course, this is rather unwieldy at times, so 12 Emos would be one Estella, with 20 Estellas to the Havisham.

Some people might suggest, given the Goth look that a Dracula inspired currency might be more appropriate, but I should have thought that The Count, or Prince Vlad, would be President for Unlife (hah!) and it would be tacky to name the currency for the Head of State.

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Just to gather comment score before Rapture is due:
with currencies you often end up noticing the same slow, isolate yet fatal little faults, inbuilt so to speak, as with calendars (the Mayan currently being the most popular in our rational society since it offers the best excuse for everyone for everything this year) namely for instance the fencepost problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error.
I believe this must be what Tom Waits refers to when stating how a certain barkeeper has got the IQ of a fencepost in that song about how the piano has been drinking, not him.

"I'm convinced that a combination of bergamote and chubbiness cause the condition known as Goth. Girls that I've known who have a bad case of the Goth have been chronic drinkers of Earl Grey tea, which contains bergamote. Bergamote contains psoralen, which makes one sensitive to the sun.

I love bergamote myself, but am too thin to be Goth."
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[caddyman.livejournal.com]

How can anyone be 'too thin to be a Goth'?

I'd have thought that wasting away was the ideal look!

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Believe me, that Gentleman can! Unfortunately his extremely stylish (nomen est omen) journal is friends´ locked these days otherwise I might show you how he speaks of The Awesomeness of Real Life whereas Goths are ethereal only in an ideal one and theory, of course. The ones one sees are generally more on the bergamote side, at least to my humble experience. This is perhaps, using effective circuit reasoning, because at dancing the black clad clan may only move in very restricted ways, I don´t know if you possess the necessary grutness (according to The Deeper Meaning of Liff: "The Resolve with which The Queen sits through five days of polynesian folk dancing quote from memory and Douglas Adams and John Lloyd´s useful dictionary) to watch their native dancing but if so, you will know instantly.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

I thought that the 'Emo' was the initial currency put forward by Jacques Delores...?