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apocalypsosUgh. You should get some sort of immediate reaction to morning exercise other than coma-inducing exhaustion. I'd be so much happier if every couple of days, right after my stomach crunches were done, a djinn popped up out of nowhere and said, "Congratulations on continuing your exercise program! Here, have a hundred bucks, Dominic Monaghan to play with for one hour, and a strawberry cheesecake that has no calories, no fat, and no carbs but tastes just like the real thing! Seriously!"
EDIT: So Don & Mike were talking yesterday about Oprah's car giveaway, because apparently before anybody got their cars, they had to pay the federal taxes on them, which were $7,000. You know, for one thing, if I had $7,000, I could get a halfway decent used car with that, and if all of those people had $7,000, they probably could, too, and wouldn't have had to write to Oprah. And Mike made a good point, which is that she could have just bought the cars herself, then sold them to each of the audience members for a buck. Which, you know, sounds like it'd be expensive even for Oprah until you realize that if she'd bought some cheaper brand of car like a Mini-Cooper that runs for around $20,000 and gotten 276 of them, it would have cost her 5.52 million dollars, which is about an eighth of what she spent on her fiftieth birthday party.
Bah. I don't know. I'm probably just jealous. No, wait, I'm sorry ... I'm definitely jealous. When the hell is somebody going to just hand me a car?
EDIT: So Don & Mike were talking yesterday about Oprah's car giveaway, because apparently before anybody got their cars, they had to pay the federal taxes on them, which were $7,000. You know, for one thing, if I had $7,000, I could get a halfway decent used car with that, and if all of those people had $7,000, they probably could, too, and wouldn't have had to write to Oprah. And Mike made a good point, which is that she could have just bought the cars herself, then sold them to each of the audience members for a buck. Which, you know, sounds like it'd be expensive even for Oprah until you realize that if she'd bought some cheaper brand of car like a Mini-Cooper that runs for around $20,000 and gotten 276 of them, it would have cost her 5.52 million dollars, which is about an eighth of what she spent on her fiftieth birthday party.
Bah. I don't know. I'm probably just jealous. No, wait, I'm sorry ... I'm definitely jealous. When the hell is somebody going to just hand me a car?
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Date: 2004-09-23 05:25 am (UTC)Jelousy is good and she was a jerk about it anyways...
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Date: 2004-09-23 07:56 am (UTC)My cousin sold us his Saab for $1, and my mother sold Nick (Tim's son) her red Dodge Shadow for $1. We routinely pass around cars for $1 in our family. :D
They aren't new, but they're still nice, and they're good cars not beaters.
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Date: 2004-09-23 09:39 am (UTC)