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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/09/2008 :  08:01:51  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message  Reply with Quote
$3,014,170,389,176,410 to be exact.

It appears that all the money in the world isnt enough for this guy, he only want 42 times the worldwide GDP. Makes the other 200 or so Billion dollar suits seem kinda reasonable.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

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Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 01/09/2008 08:02:41

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Posted - 01/09/2008 :  08:28:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
According to the AP, one lawsuit seeks $3 quadrillion exactly, and the total for all 489,000 claims is $3,014,170,389,176,410 (an average of over six billion dollars per claim). There are 247 claims for over a billion each, so even without the outrageously insane claim, the average would be nearly 29 million bucks each (and the $14 trillion total is still larger than 2007's U.S. GDP).

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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/09/2008 :  08:34:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Oh, well if its just 3Q$, then thats not so bad.

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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filthy
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Posted - 01/09/2008 :  08:45:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hell, award it to him if it'll shut him up. At the rate the dollar is declining, he'd soon have $3,014,170,389,176,410 worth of squat anyway, and the rest of us can go to some form of the barter system -- which makes more sense, anyway. A fresh turnip will always be worth a fresh turnip's value and currency fluctuation will cease to exist.

Hey, this guy could be the answer to all of the worlds economic woes!




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Posted - 01/09/2008 :  09:28:18   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message  Reply with Quote
An amusing note from the article, a quadrillion pennies stacked up would reach Saturn.

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filthy
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Posted - 01/09/2008 :  12:53:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf

An amusing note from the article, a quadrillion pennies stacked up would reach Saturn.
Ok, great! Pay him in pennies, then.




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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


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