…from Baz in Dronfield (UK)

Governors in the US Federal Reserve surprised the markets this morning by announcing that in a bid to cut confusion, mainly among American tourists, the US Dollar was going to join the Euro.

The new union will be known as “Europe And the North United States” and the currency will be known as EUR-ANUS for short.

New notes will feature the head of the ECB – Trichet and the head of the Federal Reserve – Bernanke who will be united under the banner: Tric-Banke.

When working together, however, Jean Claude Trichet and Ben Bernanke are to be known as JCB.

Gordon Brown welcomed the move but was overheard commenting to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, “Darling, we’ll need more than a JCB to dig ourselves out of this s**t”.