February 23, 2005
Fun with numbers
(Category:
Jokin Around
)
Next time you make a big purchase - big screen TV, car, house, trailer full of radishes, etc - when you get to the end of the haggle phase put a confused look on your face and say "You know, numbers that big are just hard to get your head around. What would that be in cases of beer?"
Now that I think about it, this might work even better for very small purchases like a pack of gum.
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Ha!
There's a Kids in the Hall sketch in which one of the guys calls a phone sex line and at the end of it they run down the payment options:
"To pay using your Visa or Mastercard, press 1."
The guy shakes his head.
"To pay using direct withdrawal from your checking account, press 2."
The guy says, "No."
"To pay using returnable beer bottles, press 3."
(Excitedly, while lining up the empties) "Ohhh-kayyyy!"
I measure stuff in bags of weed. Sometimes I try to figure out how many hours I will have to work to afford something, but mostly I measure in marijuana bags.
That would have been my Dad a hundred percent... how many beers! Funny!