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Silly Money | 56 comments (56 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

London produces enough rubbish to fill 2 Olympic-size swimming pool every hour.

The 2 trillion US debt, if it were in stacked gold bars, would also fill 2 olympic size pools.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Mar 7th, 2009 at 04:52:35 PM EST

However, luckily, by the time of the next ... (4.00 / 3)

... Olympics, US$2T will only be enough gold to fill one olympic sized swimming pool, freeing up one to be used for the Olympics without the injury risk of filling the pool with gold.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Mar 7th, 2009 at 05:21:47 PM EST
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Re: However, luckily, by the time of the next ... (4.00 / 3)

I bow to your improved calculations, because I just realized I used the € kilo price for gold. I'm a naughty naughty boy.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Mar 7th, 2009 at 05:36:39 PM EST
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