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Thursday, 20 October 2011

Misfortune cookie


Demonstrating how valuable the European Empire is, the German finance minister recently doled out 16,000 fortune cookies containing stirring pro-EU slogans that would have made a Soviet Commissar proud.

The cookies cost €4,000.  That's €4 a cookie or £3.53 in real money.

The EU: Inventors of the solid-gold life belt.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousThursday, 20 October 2011 at 11:48:00 GMT-7

    Err Dave, much as I admire most of your posts, your math is kinda screwy on this one, works out to 0.25 euros per cookie.

    Still 0.2499999999 euros too much me thinks ;-)

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  2. DavidThursday, 20 October 2011 at 15:54:00 GMT-7

    Gah! Fact checkers! Now I know how Dan Rather feels.

    Seriously, thanks for catching that.

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