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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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 Posted - 01/04/2007 : 03:44:29
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Internet auction house sells itself to the highest bidder
New York City, January 4, 2007 (WSJ) -- Internet auction giant eBay (EBAY, Nasdaq) today sold itself on eBay for just over 50 billion dollars.
The winning bidder was billionaire and noted scientist, Dr. Stephen William Hawking. Hawking wrote a personal check for the transaction, then took control of eBay in time to collect his own check and have his wife, Elaine, tear it up.
Dr. Stephen Hawking can afford anything on earth,
except for a British accent on his voice synthesizer.
"Everyone trusts a Brit in a wheelchair mu-ha-ha-ha exclamation mark," Hawking said in his flat, electronic voice. "As a mathematician I knew that this was not one of those times when you want to use PayPal," said Hawking. "Of course I could safely use it now because I own PayPal as part of eBay. Can't you see this is the kind of thinking that made me a billionaire in the first place question mark."
[The brilliant idea of eBay being sold on eBay was suggested to me by Ricky, who said the credit goes to DaveW, who probably bought the idea on eBay. But picking on Hawking, and the notion that he is a billionaire, were my doing.]
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 01/04/2007 05:07:12
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