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Offline ReardenSteel

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What $700B could buy...
« on: September 25, 2008, 10:50:04 PM »
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-700-billion,0,2436619.photogallery

You could buy all 32 NFL teams... 27 times.

Disney tickets 18 (3-day) passes to Disney for the entire U.S. population.

etc etc

sheesh!  :lmao: (have to laugh or else I would cry, lol)
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 10:52:32 PM »
572 metric assloads of weed.

37 railcars full of Cheetos.

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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2008, 10:58:03 PM »
Plane tickets for every moonbat that said they were going to move to Canada seven years ago.
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2008, 11:00:41 PM »

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You could buy a Caribbean Island for every single person in the state of South Dakota

Every person or every "single" person?  :p

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Entire population of South Florida could cruise around the world continuously for 8.4 months

Eight months? Everyone would be dead from food poisoning in five.  :p
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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2008, 11:12:43 PM »
I would buy DU and... slowly reshape it.  :evillaugh:
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2008, 06:49:24 AM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on September 25, 2008, 11:12:43 PM
I would buy DU and... slowly reshape it.  :evillaugh:
Why stop at DU? With that much money, you could buy DailyKos, MyDD, SmirkingChimp, HuffingtonPost, RawStory, TruthOut, and still have enough money to buy a laser which can carve out your name on the moon.
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2008, 06:55:55 AM »
Quote from: Tantal on September 25, 2008, 10:52:32 PM
572 metric assloads of weed.

37 railcars full of Cheetos.

Undergroundpanther's gender and species reassignments.

I wasn't aware that the assload was a metric unit.  What's the conversion rate to, say, cubic feet?  (I'm assuming from context that assload is a measure of volume.)
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2008, 08:51:12 AM »
Quote from: EastFacingNorth on September 26, 2008, 06:55:55 AM
Quote from: Tantal on September 25, 2008, 10:52:32 PM
572 metric assloads of weed.

37 railcars full of Cheetos.

Undergroundpanther's gender and species reassignments.

I wasn't aware that the assload was a metric unit.  What's the conversion rate to, say, cubic feet?  (I'm assuming from context that assload is a measure of volume.)
Yes, it is a measure of volume. A metric assload equals precisely 1.237 standard assloads. :-)
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2008, 09:42:30 AM »
100 aircraft carriers (with air wings).  Let them all sit off the Iranian coast until Amawhackjob opens his cakehole, then commence offloading magazines via F-18.

Sorry, but I'm in an evil mood today.
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2008, 01:05:44 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on September 26, 2008, 09:42:30 AM
100 aircraft carriers (with air wings).  Let them all sit off the Iranian coast until Amawhackjob opens his cakehole, then commence offloading magazines via F-18.

Sorry, but I'm in an evil mood today.

I think that's a damn good bailout plan. Just think what it would take to build a 100 aircaft carriers and aircaft, steel mills, mining for ore(iron, copper, etc.), oil well drilling/coal mining/gas wells for the needed electricity, shipyard workers, trucks for delivery of supplies.....the list could go on and on.

....and in the end, we'd have something to show for the $700 billion. With what they're planning now, all we get is more paperwork.......and you can't even wipe your butt with the paper.
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Re: What $700B could buy...
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2008, 05:26:42 AM »
Quote from: Chris on September 25, 2008, 10:58:03 PM
Plane tickets for every moonbat that said they were going to move to Canada seven years ago.

Tickets to the moon.

That way one is more confident that they will really be one way.


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