A fool and his money, etc etc

typed for your pleasure on 3 May 2007, at 11.49 am

Sdtrk: ‘Becoming more like Alfie’ by The Divine comedy

‘What else could I buy instead of a RealDoll’? I’m afraid I don’t understand the question.

If you were intending to buy a RealDoll for US$7000.00, you could instead buy:
  • four seconds of the US war on Iraq
  • nine thousand, three hundred and thirty-three packets of itching powder
  • six cheap flights from the northern hemisphere to Australia
  • forty-nine second-hand 28″ CRT televisions
  • seventy felt bowler hats
  • eight hundred and sixty-three litres of Red Bull energy drink
  • one twentieth of a terraced house on an English council estate
  • eighteen kilolitres of unleaded gasoline (in America)
  • one hundred and thirty-one thousand, five hundred and twenty-eight 5mm light-emitting diodes
  • three thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two lottery tickets, probably worthless
What are you thinking of buying?
I might buy for

Here’s something to consider: what would I do with 863 litres of Red Bull? I know! Kill myself.
How many of these will $7000 USD purchase, I wonder?

More than likely just one, but you really can’t put a price on a structure(s) that exterminate all rational thought

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5 have spoken to “A fool and his money, etc etc”

  1. Mahtek writes:

    130,000 or so diodes…Hmmm…I’m thinkin’, I’m thinkin’…

  2. Davecat writes:

    You could, ah, line the study ceiling with them, making for a rather bizarre display. Or make it more bizarre: line the kitchen ceiling with ’em.
    Err, sky’s the limit?

  3. Mahtek writes:

    Or place them at the top and bottom of every wall in the house. That would turn my house into the perfect shadow free photo studio!

  4. Davecat writes:

    Okay, now that’s clever. 🙂 You might want to put $100 aside to hire an assistant though, cos instaling that many diodes round your home might well drive you mad. It could happen!

  5. SafeTinspector writes:

    It looks like I’d have trouble getting the lawnmower in and out of that shed.
    Entertaining trouble, but trouble nonetheless.

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