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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: re: billions and billions
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 18:56:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 18:56:20 1984
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Ironically, it was Johnny Carson who gave the  best  demonstration  of  the
concept  of  "billion"  I've  heard.  He  read  an article that someone had
written that explained how long ago  1  billion  seconds,  minutes,  hours,
days,  weeks,  months, years, and dollars were by giving relevant events in
history.  After hearing all the others, the horrifying one  is  dollars.  1
billion  dollars  is 10.5 hours ago for the Federal government.  That's how
long it takes them to spend that much (... pop goes the weasle. (-: ).

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