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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:55 am
by VisibilityMissing
Okay, for those of you who don't know, <b>Harper's Magazine</b> is a digest of articles and information that is published monthly in the states. Every month, there is a page called the <i>Harper's Index</i> that includes ratios and numbers that could be funny on their own or in combination with others, such as:<br><br>-Amount a Nebraska man made this year by auctioning his forehead to advertisers: $37 375<br><br><br>-Ratio of active workers at General Motors to retirees on its pension rolls: 2:5<br><br>-Total pension costs of the company per vehicle it produces: $675<br><br>So, lets see what kind of list we come up with.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:37 am
by Gizensha
Number of weeks Norton Internet Security was in the top ten all formats chart in the UK (as of somepoint in June '04) - 29
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:19 am
by VisibilityMissing
Number of people killed in the 15 January 1919 molasses spill in Boston Massachusetts: 21<br><br>Number of gallons of molasses spilled: 2 320 000
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:50 am
by Gizensha
Sticky end to those 21 people.<br><br>At least they won't have starved to death, I hear that's the worst.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:54 pm
by TyVulpine
Total number of NASA astronauts killed: 17. (7 on the Challenger, 7 on the Columbia, and 3 on a Saturn rocket on the launching pad, when a fire occured in the cockpit)
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:08 pm
by VisibilityMissing
Total calorie count for the new Burger King Enormous Omelet Sandwich: 730<br><br>Total grams of fat: 47<br><br>Total calorie count for a quarter pound stick of butter: 800<br><br>Total grams of fat: 88
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:43 pm
by Richard K Niner
Total grams of fat in McDonalds Chicken Caesar Salad (w/ Chicken McGrill): 9<br>In the dressing: 18<br><br>(So, this is basically a "By The Numbers" game, isn't it?)
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:01 pm
by TyVulpine
basically.<br><br><br>Total number of people killed in the 1989 San Francisco/Oakland 7.0 rated earthquake: 63
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:08 pm
by VisibilityMissing
<!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+Mar 31 2005, 04:43 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ Mar 31 2005, 04:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> (So, this is basically a "By The Numbers" game, isn't it?) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> (Right. But I still think the stick of butter is better for you than the sandwich.)
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:08 pm
by GhostWay
Sum of the first 144 digits of pi: 666<br><br>Digit in pi where the sequence 123456789 fisrt appears: 523,551,502
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:11 pm
by TyVulpine
number of times a digit in pi appears consecutively: 0
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:14 pm
by Spray
Amount of damage that the Doom Guy's fist can do, per punch: 2-20 points<br><br>Amount that the same fist does, while Berserk: 20-200 points
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:03 am
by VisibilityMissing
Length of probation, in months, pop singer Paula Abdul was given for a 2004 hit-and-run accident: 24
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:10 am
by Like_D00D
Number of Years it took Green Bay to win 3 Super Bowls: 31<br><br>Number of Years it took New England to win 3 Super Bowls: 4
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:00 pm
by Tom Flapwell
As long as games have been brought up...<br><br>Damage from a hand-thrown snowball in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" game (NES): 1<br><br>Damage from a steady stream of machine gun bullets in the same game: 1