New £50 Nominations

PostNew £50 Nominations by **Sandy** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:36 pm

In keeping with the old £50 it's going to be a scientist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46343965

Bookmakers William Hill have Stephen Hawking as the current favourite, with odds of 7/4, followed by Nobel-prize winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin 4/1.

Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Alexander Fleming and electromagnetic pioneer Michael Faraday have odds of 5/1 and Rosalind Franklin, who made important contributions to the understanding of DNA, is at 6/1.

Personally I don't think it should be Hawking. Out of the people on the list of best odds I think it should be either Hodgkin or Franklin as their work saved the most lives.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **OrangeRKN** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:39 pm

All of them, like an album cover

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Blue Eyes** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:42 pm

"Jimmy Savile to own the libs."

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Peter Crisp** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:44 pm

Is this some kind of joke?

Surely the only person under consideration should be Peter Molyneux.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Dual** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:45 pm

Don't know any of them

Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Peter Crisp** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:49 pm

Dual wrote:Don't know any of them

Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom

Who gives a gooseberry fool about freedom when we have Theme Park and Syndicate to play while we're all under the evil Euro bureaucrat dictatorship?

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Sandy** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:50 pm

Dual wrote:Don't know any of them

Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom

Tommy 'Yaxley-Lennon' Robinson for his martyrdom.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Lagamorph** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:51 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
Dual wrote:Don't know any of them

Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom

Who gives a gooseberry fool about freedom when we have Theme Park and Syndicate to play while we're all under the evil Euro bureaucrat dictatorship?

Except in Northern Ireland where there won't be any electricity.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Moggy** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:51 pm

I think Hawking is too recent.

I’d go with Turing.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Peter Crisp** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:52 pm

Lagamorph wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
Dual wrote:Don't know any of them

Should be Nigel Farage for winning back our freedom

Who gives a gooseberry fool about freedom when we have Theme Park and Syndicate to play while we're all under the evil Euro bureaucrat dictatorship?

Except in Northern Ireland where there won't be any electricity.

They can play the board game version :shifty:

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PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Drumstick** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:12 pm

It'll probably be Turing as that will cater to certain folks due to WW2.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Preezy** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:19 pm

I voted for Hawking, but I'd be happy with Turing as well.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Lagamorph** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:36 pm

Drumstick wrote:It'll probably be Turing as that will cater to certain folks due to WW2.

Those same folks would probably complain about how it's PC gone mad to put a gay man on the £50 note.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Green Gecko** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:41 pm

Turing because computers and diversity (he was gay) and it will be a man.

Because my history is poor and I grew up in patriachy can someone tell me about the women please.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Squinty** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:44 pm

Blue Eyes wrote:"Jimmy Savile to own the libs."

Harold Shipman for the very same reasons.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Frank** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:48 pm

Isn't Rosalind Franklin one of the scientists who discovered DNA (there was a theatre show all about her a couple of years ago)? No idea about the rest of them though :shifty:

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by KK » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:06 pm

Stephen "God doesn't exist" Hawking would annoy the Christians.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Ironhide** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:19 pm

I'd like it to be Hawking but wouldn't object to Turing getting the honour.

It'd also be quite apt given the current drive for equality.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Moggy** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:21 pm

Green Gecko wrote:Turing because computers and diversity (he was gay) and it will be a man.

Because my history is poor and I grew up in patriachy can someone tell me about the women please.

Ada Lovelace was the star of the 70s classic “Deep Throat”.

PostRe: New £50 Nominations by **Lagamorph** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:25 pm

Moggy wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:Turing because computers and diversity (he was gay) and it will be a man.

Because my history is poor and I grew up in patriachy can someone tell me about the women please.

Ada Lovelace was the star of the 70s classic “Deep Throat”.

I always get her confused with Amy Adams and Anna Kendrick.

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