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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Alan MacHett wrote:
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:06 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [internetworkers] from the desk of Arianna Huffington
> 
> ...coming back around to Matusiak's original post/forward of Arianna
> Huffington's comments about how much X billion dollars equals:
> 
> Pepsi has a contest going now.  The ultimate prize is a billion dollars.
> Assuming 50% gift tax immediately, then 50% gift tax for each amount you
> give away, ... you and 166 friends could live off that billion win for 30
> years at $50K/year.

As with most contests of this type (and lotteries), the odds of winning are
far less, something like several orders of magnitude, than the odds of you
dying on the way to buy the pepsi/ticket/entry into the contest.  But I
still like trying...