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Fwd: Fw: A Billion
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 16 May 2003 12:56:33 -0500
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OK....don't bother telling me if none of this is true.... but  it is an
interesting perspective...


>A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency
>did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its releases:
>
>A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
>
>A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
>
>A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
>
>A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate
>Washington spends it.

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