Don't Watch That, Watch This (3)
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A Critical Appraisal of Madness's Videos The Prince, One Step Beyond, My Girl, Night Boat To Cairo, Bed And Breakfast Man, Baggy Trousers, Embarrassment, Return Of The Los Palmas 7,Grey Day, Shut Up, It Must Be Love, Cardiac Arrest, House of Fun, Driving In My Car, Our House, Tomorrow's Just Another Day, Wings Of A Dove, The Sun and The Rain, Michael Caine, One Better Day, Yesterday's Men, Uncle Sam, Sweetest Girl (Not the official ...
The monetary density of things (31)
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It's a common figure of speech to say that x is worth its weight in y, where y is usually (but not always) gold. But most of us don't buy and weigh gold very often, so how do you connect that to real life? Does "worth its weight" in pennies or $100 bills make any more sense? We have collected here a bunch of examples for different things that represent a wide range of monetary ...
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Bruce said:
Only $55 million for a pound of LSD. The only substance more valuable is antimatter (at $26 Quadrillion per pound)
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beggs said:
Via Stephen:Just scroll down till you get this time gem:"Kopi Luwak coffee costs approximately the same amount per pound as human blood. (Knowing where it comes from, I think I'd rather drink the blood. It's been pointed out before that printer ink is also up there, but I'd rather not drink that either.)"Also it's good to know that the price of antimatter is $26 Quadrillion (I don't even know how many zeros that is!) but I suppose buying futures would be a bad idea... the giant donut of death in Switzerland should bring that price down, assuming we all survive after they turn it on.Great use of math for no other reason than that you have a degree in math...
Greetings, Programs!: Sweded Tron Movie Is Probably Best Sweded Movie Ever (3)
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While it's not the entire movie, this sweded lightcycle scene from Tron, every computer geek's favorite movie this side of War Games, has to be the best sweded version of a film in the entire history of sweded films. It may not be as funny as the hilarious sweded BigDog quadruped robot or the sweded Star Wars after the jump, but the execution of its cardboardish cheesiness is absolutely perfect. And yes, I like to ...
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