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Bill Gates' Dosh

What can Bill Bates do with his money?

At last count, Bill Gates had an estimated net worth of $42 billion dollars ($42,000,000,000.000).

He has earned since his birth an average of $32.31per heartbeat, and this is escalating. Here are some things he could do with his money:

• Pay NBA MVP Michael Jordan's salary for 1,394 years.
• Give every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth $7.46.
• Pay every California Lottery prize for the next 34 years.
• Fund 158 Mars Pathfinder missions.
• Fund the US Department of Education for 19 years.
• Pay tuition for the residents of Seattle and Tacoma to go to the University of Washington for four years.
• Fund the US presence in the Persian Gulf for 11 months.
• Fund the US peace keeping forces in Bosnia for 157 years.
• Buy 233,346,297 copies of Microsoft Windows 95.
• Buy 1,680,000,000 copies of his own book, buy more with his royalties from those sales, continuing the cycle and becomming easily the best selling author of all time.
• Make Hanson the most successful musicians of all time by buying 3,529,411,765 copies of "Middle of Nowhere."
• If he wanted to challenge George Lucas (worth only $2 billion), he could make 227 sequels to "Waterworld," or 35,000 sequels to "Sling Blade."
• At the median donation for spending a night in the White House, he coulds tay in the Lincoln Bedroom for 46,300 years.
• If he wanted to go on a killing spree in Los Angeles County, at the rate that Simpson was charged, he could kill 3,360 people and pay all his attorney fees and punitive damages.
• At the rate of 1/2 ounce per $27 million, he could pay Mike Tyson to eat 1/5 of Evander Holyfield.
• He could fly from Seattle to Paris and back on Air France 45,258,621 times.
• If he wanted to go to a local baseball game, he could buy Seattle Mariners season tickets, all of them, for 411 years, and with his spare change could buy the team and the Kingdome.
• At Denny's, he could buy a "Grand Slam Slugger Breakfast" for 9,150,326,797 people.
• If he couldn't get service, he could buy every man, woman and child in China a Big Mac Extra Value Meal, as long as no one "Super Sizes."
• If they preferred, he could buy 17 billion packages of Top Ramen noodles.
• He must like coffee, and could buy over 6 billion pounds of French roast at his local Starbuck's.
• Speaking of a cup of coffee, he could support one of those Sally Struther's foreign kids for 113,341,969 years.
• Perhaps what he need to spend money on most is a new pair of glasses and some hair conditioner.

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