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

gold 19.3g per cubic centimetre, football pitch max size 90x120m

$939.7 per troy ounce $30.2 per gram

so that works out as a solid gold football pitch 30cm thick

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Mar 7th, 2009 at 07:20:35 PM EST
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Re: Silly Money (4.00 / 4)

Somehow this kind of stuff made a lot more sense back when I smoked pot.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Mar 7th, 2009 at 08:46:34 PM EST
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Re: Silly Money (4.00 / 3)

Did you inhale?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 8th, 2009 at 06:01:20 AM EST
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