So, that’s where the quaint British request for a phone call came from. As a lad I met a young lass in Greece while she was on holiday. When I mentioned I was soon going to England she said" Oh, please knock me up". I think I ran.
The outrageous amount in the lawsuit was a standard negotiating ploy. You always ask for more than you expect to get, figuring the other party will make a counteroffer. I’m sure this guy would have been quite happy with one undecillion dollars.
The wake-up procedure reminds me of when I worked in a prison, where the prisoners would gently toss pab bles onto the windows of the guard towers to wake up the guards when they were supposed to report in (by phone).
I read the cypress tree that may have inspired Dr. Suess recently died. He lived above the cliffs where it lived until his death. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/la-jollas-lorax-tree-has-fallen-180972442/
Wouldn’t that be $2 novillion or something like that? Working backwards, don’t the zeros go hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions, septillions, octillions, then novillions? I might not have the prefix right on the last one, but undecillion doesn’t seem right.
jasonsnakelover almost 5 years ago
The guy with the blowgun in the illustration looks like Trump.
Did he win his lawsuit? I’ll get bit by a rabid animal for even a few billion dollars. I wonder how the guy arrived at that figure.
Take care and may God bless.
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
Never thought of pea-shooting being THAT old of a gimmick.
Bilan almost 5 years ago
Can you order a snooze peashooter?
Firebland1 almost 5 years ago
That lawsuit adds up to $ 2 × 10**36th power. Sounds like the math of a politician.
Gent almost 5 years ago
And did the knockers up protest that the alarm clocks made them jobless?
222jo almost 5 years ago
That’s entirely impractical surely? You could just throw the pea much more easily?
therese_callahan2002 almost 5 years ago
No mention of bugle calls.
Buzzworld almost 5 years ago
I have a pee every morning.
khmo almost 5 years ago
So, that’s where the quaint British request for a phone call came from. As a lad I met a young lass in Greece while she was on holiday. When I mentioned I was soon going to England she said" Oh, please knock me up". I think I ran.
jasonsnakelover almost 5 years ago
Panton Urisima
e.groves almost 5 years ago
Who woke up the pea shooter?
paullp Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The outrageous amount in the lawsuit was a standard negotiating ploy. You always ask for more than you expect to get, figuring the other party will make a counteroffer. I’m sure this guy would have been quite happy with one undecillion dollars.
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 5 years ago
The doctor was apparently a pioneer in LSD experimentation.
MDMom almost 5 years ago
. . . Anton Purisima sure has kept himself busy! What a jerk! :o
https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/160578/losing-a-middle-finger-new-yorker-anton-purisima-files-worlds-biggest-lawsuit/
https://commonplacefacts.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/the-lawsuit-for-all-the-money-in-the-world-and-more/
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4537334/anton-purisima-v-city-of-philadelphia/
Nathan Daniels Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Yeah, getting knocked up sure would be a wake-up call.
6turtle9 almost 5 years ago
I always figured that Joshua trees must have been an inspiration for Dr Seuss, as well.
Duster Freebottom Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The wake-up procedure reminds me of when I worked in a prison, where the prisoners would gently toss pab bles onto the windows of the guard towers to wake up the guards when they were supposed to report in (by phone).
Rhonda Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I read the cypress tree that may have inspired Dr. Suess recently died. He lived above the cliffs where it lived until his death. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/la-jollas-lorax-tree-has-fallen-180972442/
Rhonda Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Oops spelled Seuss wrong.
bookworm0812 almost 5 years ago
Wouldn’t that be $2 novillion or something like that? Working backwards, don’t the zeros go hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, sextillions, septillions, octillions, then novillions? I might not have the prefix right on the last one, but undecillion doesn’t seem right.
Peam Premium Member almost 5 years ago
That lawsuit just proves the guy was did indeed become rabid; did he live to claim?
meg_grif almost 5 years ago
The 33 zeros makes that number two decillion, not two undecillion.
craigwestlake almost 5 years ago
These gents were the inspiration for Rusty Warren in 1960…