Sunday, April 10, 2011

economic wisdom


from the PIGazzette

PIGish Wisdom
Just imagine... If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today!

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you would have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg plan.

A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon!

Makes you damned proud to be an American!

3 comments:

Steve at the Pub said...

I've latched onto the principle, though I struggle with the numbers:

Buying $10 worth of beer will yield $2.14 for the empties at the recycling depot....?

Oh how I wish it were so.

Minicapt said...

They probably meant beer, @ 4% alcohol by volume. Most of that distance then would have been travel to the toilet.

Cheers

missred said...

see now there both of you go trying to confuse me with maths.