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You can buy one of the following:
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Maggie Simpsion
Price in opening credits of The Simpsons for US$847.60 (COL$1,613 thousand) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Prom tickets
Ticket to a BBC Proms classical music concert, standing for £5 (COL$14,590) from source -
Souvenir guides to the Natural History Museum
Souvenir guide to London's Natural History Museum for £4.50 (COL$13,130)
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Keith Chegwin for an event
Hire Keith Chegwin for an event, 2006 for £4,500 (COL$13,130 thousand) from source -
1 Duck island
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (COL$4,801 thousand) from wikipedia -
1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 (COL$254,400) from source -
1 A life-sized human made of untaxed petrol
A life-sized human made of untaxed petrol for £31.74 (COL$92,620) from hardcoded -
100 Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (COL$8,755)