Not as good with the laugh track, but he's always funny.

@British folks: Do you guys actually refer to your money as squid or was Ali G just making a funny?

How do the terms for your money break down? I know "pound" is the official name of the currency, but what are the names for coins? Here in America we have dollars and cents (pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters) with the most common slang term "buck" being the equivalent of "dollar."

Also, our "paper" currency is actually not made of paper, but of cotton. Of what is British currency composed? And what is the smallest unit of currency available? We go down to the penny (1 cent), but a lot of people are in favor of eliminating it.

>> ^turboj0e:
that is some shitty looking weed


Back then though, that was considered "high-grade" as the newsmister says. My dad was probably the same age as I am right now, back then.. I remember him telling me he used to be able to get a 'nickle-bag' - 5 bucks for a nice handful. But weed has evolved since then, so much more THC these days. Sweet, sweet THC...

Johny has two quarters, four dimes, six nickles and twelve pennies. He needs to pay for his state subsidized school lunch which costs $0.86 plus $0.37 for a half pint carton of milk. He also wants to buy an orange to eat with his lunch which costs $0.44.

How much money would Johnny need to steal from everyone in the cafeteria to pay for his orange? Please pick the correct answer:

1. (Libertarian) He will have to go without an orange, because stealing is wrong.
2. (Republican) If there was prayer in school, his cup would runneth over.
3. (Democrat) $0.35.
4. (Green Party) What was that milk carton made of? Is it biodegradable? Is that plastic cutlery? Whoa, Johnny cannot have this lunch until its carbon foot print is known.

I'd have done it for a car. They could've not played if they didn't want to.

As Gabriella clearly showed.

man, I want to see the other parts. seems interesting."

If I had a nickle... but seriously this could be a whole game show. Although a portion of people would think the 'punishment' was just another prize. Free piercing?!? Yes please!

I love a world where strategically stabbing someone is a game show but wearing a wet hoodie is torture. No. Really. It is.

What I do know is that not more than 5 years ago I could fill a grocery cart for 80 dollars, now it's 120 easy and usually more. Every little nickle and dime item is near doubled in price since then too - another way to slip in more profit that gets largely unnoticed. We are getting nickled and dimed to death in fact and my wages are about the same as they were in the early 90's and less if you factor in inflation and cost of living since then.

Anyone who thinks the economy is financially sound is simply blind. Everyone I know personally is losing ground.

>> ^lighthouse:
The sad truth of the matter is that Taco Smell probably made a profit on the 'transaction'.
From Pollen's Fast Food Nation:
“Today McDonald’s sells more Coca-Cola than anyone else in the world. The fast food chains purchase Coca-Cola syrup for about $4.25 a gallon. A medium Coke that sells for $1.29 contains roughly $.09 worth of syrup. Buying a large Coke for $1.49 instead, as the cute girl behind the counter always suggests, will add another 3 cents worth of syrup — and another 17 cents in pure profit for McDonald’s.” (pg 54)
The Math:
Large coke is ~$1.50 and has ~$0.12 of syrup. A large is say 32 oz or 1/4 of a gallon. That jug looks about 3 gallons to me or 3 4=12 Large cokes. 12 12c = $1.44. Taco Bell made a nickle off that chump.


You didn't figure in the carbonated water that's mixed with the syrup to make the drink. What about their utility bills and other expenses with operating a business? They also have to pay their employees.

I won't argue that Fast food chains are a ripoff, they sell crappy food that's not worth what they charge, but ripping them off because of that doesn't make it right.

The sad truth of the matter is that Taco Smell probably made a profit on the 'transaction'.

From Pollen's Fast Food Nation:
“Today McDonald’s sells more Coca-Cola than anyone else in the world. The fast food chains purchase Coca-Cola syrup for about $4.25 a gallon. A medium Coke that sells for $1.29 contains roughly $.09 worth of syrup. Buying a large Coke for $1.49 instead, as the cute girl behind the counter always suggests, will add another 3 cents worth of syrup — and another 17 cents in pure profit for McDonald’s.” (pg 54)

The Math:
Large coke is ~$1.50 and has ~$0.12 of syrup. A large is say 32 oz or 1/4 of a gallon. That jug looks about 3 gallons to me or 3*4=12 Large cokes. 12*12c = $1.44. Taco Bell made a nickle off that chump.

If I had a nickle for everytime I accidently donkey punched a woman to death on my yacht...

Permission granted. Just send me a nickle every time you use it, as I have it copyrighted. I got it from a picture on my uncle's computer. Here ya go:

http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j24/neptunetitan/funny/?action=view¤t=ShutTheFuckUp.jpg

In reply to this comment by choggie:
CaptWillard...Can I use your, "how about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up?"
heheheh, that's fahnny!!

Excel at what rottenseed? Excel at making someone else fantastically rich and yourself marginally comfortable while under heavy debt and restricted by ever increasing lack of civil liberty - only to have your dollar continually de-valued while your dream home goes up in price to the point where you have to ask your parents for the down and then resign to the fact that you'll be in debt for it well into your 70's. Unless you get cancer before then, which is an odds on favorite, then you'll lose your house in order to gain a year or 3.

Then you can excel at raising your kids under ever-tightening control methods while your guilt mounts from never doing enough for them compounded by child-targeted advertising and guilt-riding profiteers, getting nickled and dimed throughout their glory years with twice a year school pictures and little admin costs attached to every move they make.

Then get judged by what amount of grace you have to suffer this.

I think you're right about developing relationships and and contacts in college primarily because at the end of the day it might very well be all you have. But if you look on the kids of today with a reserved disgust, just keep in mind that they may have in their minds the futility of it all.

* Rush Limbaugh -- sought deferment (because of a cyst on his tail end).
* George Will -- sought graduate school deferment, (too smart to die).
* Pat Buchanan -- sought deferment (for bad knee).
* Pat Robertson -- his US Senator father got him out of Korea as soon as the shooting began.

* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Matt Drudge: did not serve.
* Steve Forbes: did not serve.
* Tony Snow: did not serve.
* Michael "Savage" Weiner: did not serve.
* Brit Hume: did not serve.
* Roger Ailes: did not serve.

# Paul Gigot: did not serve.
# Bill Kristol: did not serve.
# Ralph Reed: did not serve.
# Michael Medved: did not serve.
# Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
# Anne Coulter: did not serve.
# Jerry Falwell: did not serve.
# Alan Keyes : did not serve.
# Ted Nugent: did not serve.

* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Ari Fleischer: did not serve.
* Andrew Card: did not serve.
* Ken Adelman: did not serve.
# Mitt Romney - did not serve in the military but did serve the Mormon Church on a 30-month mission to France.
# John Bolton: did not serve.
# Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
# Bill Frist: did not serve.
# John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments, to teach business.
# Trent Lott : avoided the draft, did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee" He defeated tripelegic Max Cleland by questioning his patriotism!
* Don Nickles: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.

That phrase now must be preceded by, "my wife, she is dead".



Now where's my second nickle?

That's awesome, Krupo. If only you had a nickle for every time you said that...

Oh, and you're welcome. High five!