interacted with an Aussie friend about prices of things and was once again struck by how we both have dollars but the USD obviously isn't the dollarydoo, so what even
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#Etymology
Turns out "dollar" is a foreign pronunciation of Thaler, short for Joachismthaler, the town (Joachim's Valley) where some coins were minted. The name got popular, and was used for more than one kind of coinage, notably Spanish pieces of eight that the Americans copied for their coinage once they existed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar
The Australians had pounds and tried and tried and tried to decimalize and eventually managed it in the 1960s and wanted to call the new currency "royals" but nobody liked that so they went with "dollars" instead. lol
Wikipedia doesn't mention the term "dollarydoo" but Wiktionary claims it was minted by The Simpsons in 1995, which tracks. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dollarydoo
@ChateauErin Yes. Like the “knifey-spoony" and the "coffee? beer" gags in the same episode, they are still used and referenced constantly by Aussies today.
@vampiress one of the only things I remember from that episode (aside from the things I couldn't place) is the toilet apparatus in the US Embassy that has misled people about the significance of coriolis force to this very day
@vampiress I assume most USians have toilets with basins the size of the Hoover Dam that use the entire discharge of the Mississippi River to flush, and that they/we heap disdain on any toilet that economizes on water usage