What would You do with 200 million dollars?

[YASNY]

The Detroit Tigers are worth more than us? Gees that can't be good. 18th out of 30 teams ain't all that good in one of America's biggest markets.

That's because of our high quality management.

[The Critic]

I could still buy the Cubs, regardless of the tax situation!

I'd just have the Cubs' lawyers and the judges they are "friends" with "take care of" my taxes and make sure the sale went through LEGALLY...they can do things like that, you know...

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

I could still buy the Cubs, regardless of the tax situation!

I'd just have the Cubs' lawyers and the judges they are "friends" with  "take care of" my taxes and make sure the sale went through LEGALLY...they can do things like that, you know...

If I owned the Flubbs the first thing I'd do is take a wrecking ball to that overgrown pisspot they call a stadium then build a new ballpark that looks worse than the Cell and install cell phone jamming equipment on all the concourses so the fans would be forced to pay attention to the game and not to how that episode of "Queer as Folk" is going back home on Showtime.

[The Critic]

If I owned the Flubbs the first thing I'd do is take a wrecking ball to that overgrown pisspot they call a stadium then build a new ballpark that looks worse than the Cell and install cell phone jamming equipment on all the concourses so the fans would be forced to pay attention to the game and not to how that episode of "Queer as Folk" is going back home on Showtime.

 

SIR, that is a STEREOTYPE!!!!

I'm sure SOME of them are asking about "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" instead!!

 

I'm thinking that the s***ty Council wouldn't let me tear down the Urinal, and would slap some kind of landmark status on it - how a shrine to ineptitude can be a landmark is beyond me, but I bet they would do it.

That's why the "Testament To Failure" exhibit would be born.

There's be a Hall Of Mediocrity for all the mandatory "every team has to have one" All-Stars they've produced ( Steve Swisher comes to mind ).

But the Scrubbies themselves would have to get used to a grass-covered shack in Montana, cuz that's where they'd play! They're used to weeds on the walls, so it should be a smooth transition!!

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

 

 

SIR, that is a STEREOTYPE!!!!

I'm sure SOME of them are asking about "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" instead!!

 

I'm thinking that the s***ty Council wouldn't let me tear down the Urinal, and would slap some kind of landmark status on it - how a shrine to ineptitude can be a landmark is beyond me, but I bet they would do it.

That's why the "Testament To Failure" exhibit would be born.

There's be a Hall Of Mediocrity for all the mandatory "every team has to have one" All-Stars they've produced ( Steve Swisher comes to mind ).

But the Scrubbies themselves would have to get used to a grass-covered shack in Montana, cuz that's where they'd play! They're used to weeds on the walls, so it should be a smooth transition!!

I guess I can deal, as long as you have the cell phone chatting fans museum exibit I mentioned earlier. Just fine tune it by making the floor all around it sticky and reeking of urine.

 

 

DOINK!!

 

"OUCH!!! What was that hard thing that pegged me in the head? Ah well who cares. Hey (talking to guy 4 seats down on cell phone ) get the beer man. I havent had any alcohol in 4 minutes now."

[Texsox]

I'm not certain but all this talk about $200 Million and the Cubs got me to thinking, isn't it a law in Chicago if you have $200 million you have to be a Cub fan? Perhaps all that money makes you stupid and like a moth to a flame, you just start moving towards the ivy . . . Ivy League ~ Ivy Walls . . .

 

So, since I know y'all are big Sox fans, if you get 200 million, give it to me to see if it's safe. I'll take the risk for you. If everything is ok, I'll give back what's left.

[DBAHO]

Well 200 million wouldn't be enough to buy Britain,

WANT to buy a largish island off France? Slightly used, with annex. Rains a bit. Trains often late. Nice gardens. Food dubious, but lots of places to drink.

 

Yours for under five trillion pounds. Or 7.1 trillion euros. Or 8.8 trillion US dollars.

If the 58,789,194 occupants ever care to sell, that is.

 

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) whipped up a price tag for the United Kingdom -- that's Britain, comprising England, Wales, Scotland, plus Northern Ireland -- in a year-end tally of the nation's capital assets.

 

The precise figure is 4.983 trillion pounds, or 84,760.47 pounds for every man, woman and child as of April 2001.

 

The value of buildings, vehicles, machinery, bridges, roads, shares and bank accounts are included in the total, which is based on 2002 data.

 

"We found that five trillion pounds was the current market value of the United Kingdom, including the value of the land," said ONS statistician Ian Hill.

 

"That's risen a lot over the last few years because property prices have shot up," with the value of people's homes doubling since 1994, he said.

 

The estimate is the first of its kind in terms of detail from the ONS, a British government agency, and is based on a "much more robust system" of analysing investment data, Hill said.

 

"Economists use this information to look at wealth, and is particularly interesting for looking at household wealth," he said. "It helps them make well-founded predictions of what is going to happen in the future."

 

For comparative purposes, 4.983 trillion pounds can also buy 2.516 trillion pints of "bitter" or dark ale at a typical English pub, or nearly 43 million pints of beer for everyone in the country.

 

It can also get you 14.655 trillion Kit Kat candy bars -- but not quite enough to match all of the annual gross domestic product of the United States, which in 2002 was 10.45 trillion dollars.