So they sold the LIBOR rate. I was not personally aware that rates could themselves be bought and sold. Now that I do know, I'd like to sell off some of the rates and statistics that I own:
The Average Height of American Females, Aged 42-65 - $2,250,000
The Rate of Type II Diabetes in Malaysian Immigrants to Mainland China - $200,000
The Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow - $750,000
The number 7 - $5,000,000,000
G (The Gravitational Constant of the Universe) - Offered at the bargain-basement price of $9,999,999,999,999,999.99
If you're interested in purchasing any of these, please leave your contact info in the comments.
Wait, wait . . . I know this one - The Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow:
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(Sorry to be giving it away for free here. I think my Mum used to warn me about that.)
Oddly enough, this is the second time I've had to reference this in a blog comment this week. Luckily, I have this bookmarked on my phone to impress people at cocktail parties.
I am wwwaaaayyyyyy fun at cocktail parties.
Lana - if you can sneak out this week, I can probably find a party for us to attend.
No problem! You can impress people with the airspeed of an unladen swallow all you want. Just keep track of your usage, because I'm gonna need royalties at the end of the year. (I have a certain lifestyle to maintain.)
DeleteAnd yeah! Let's party! I know just the club, too. It's a little hole in the wall, by which I mean it's an actual hole that I dug under a rock wall. It's very popular, though. There are already two badgers and a family of field mice partying there every night.
That does not sound like a party, and I quote: “Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”
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I have some crawl space with mostly rats. I think they party 80's hair metal style.