There’s a petition to make ‘Dollarydoos’ official Aussie currency

Tapping into the sort of economic ingenuity usually found only in high-level financial think tanks or on every single page of this web site, a courageous Australian citizen has proposed that his country’s currency be changed to a Simpsons reference in order to revive its flagging strength.

‘Due to global commodity prices plummeting, the Australian economy is struggling, ‘ he points out.

Australia’s currency might soon be changing faster than you can say, “Oh my God!”

If you haven’t heard, the Australian dollar has been in something of a slump of late, and one young Aussie, a man named Thomas Probst, has taken it upon himself to rally his nation’s finances a rather comical solution.

Unlike the White House’s policy on petitions and their obligation to respond to large causes (petitions with over 100,000 signatures in the USA become searchable on the White House government website), for a petition to get in the hands of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Australia, a campaign and all its original signatures must be in writing – online petitions don’t count. “So please sign this petition to get our nations leaders to finally act on this important issue”.

The term “Dollarydoos” appeared in an episode of The Simpsons titled, “Bart vs. Australia”, which featured Bart Simpson making a pricey collect call to an Australian home to ask which way the water spins in their toilets. So far, the petition has amassed over 15,500 signatures. Tobais speaks to Bart in the United States for over six hours on the phone resulting in an expensive phone bill to which Tobais’s father screams “Nine hundred dollarydoos!”.