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Isn't it traditional to mention football pitches around about now?

I suppose you could have a golden football pitch with teams running around covered in dollar bills.

And that still wouldn't be as silly as the US banking industry.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Mar 7th, 2009 at 07:03:03 PM EST
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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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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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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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