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Power of burgers
The U.S. dollar is undervalued against the Deutsch-mark based on how many "Big Mac" hamburger sandwiches the two currencies can purchase, said one of Germany's leading institutes.
The Institute of the German Economy in Cologne noted that the popular sandwich by the McDonald's restaurant chain is increasingly being used by economists around the world as a measure of currencies' relative power.
The institute said that currency exchange rates are often unreliable as an instrument to measure buying power. At the same time, baskets of products used to arrive at comparative purchasing power are complicated to compile.
A simple alternative, now that McDonald's has spread to virtually every country on earth, has become to look at what a Big Mac costs, the IW said.
A particularly hungry American can buy five Big Macs for 11 dollars. If he exchanged the money into Deutsch-marks, his 18 marks in Germany can just barely obtain four Big Macs," the IW said.
Conclusion: based on the Big Mac index, the dollar is undervalued, the institute said.
Americans can get their best Big Mac buy these days in Moscow, where one sandwich costs only about 59 cents.
But Russians must work nearly two days in order to afford this meaty capitalist achievement - longer than people in any other country, the IW said.
Joke 2 Exchanging mailing lists
With more than twelve billion catalogs being mailed annually, it's little wonder that marketers are distributing mailing lists anywhere possible. In one particularly cruel move, the proprietors of a chocolate catalog purchased the mailing list of a weight-loss organization. Chocolate sales rose almost immediately, but the weight-loss group wised up and now keeps it clients' names to itself.
Joke 3 A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks
if he could buy him a drink. "Why, of course," comes the reply.
The first man then asks, "Where are you from?" "I'm from
Ireland," replies the second man. The first man responds: "You
don't say, I'm from Ireland too! Let's have another round to Ireland."
"Of course," says the second. Curious, the first asks: "Where
in Ireland?" "Dublin," comes the reply. "I can't believe
it, Me too! Lets have another round of drinks to Dublin." "Of
course" The second man can't help himself so he asks, "What
school did you attend?" "Saint Mary's", replies the first
man. "I graduated in '62." "This is becoming unbelievable!!!"
They say in union. About that time, in comes one of the regulars and sits
down at the bar. "What's up?" he asks the bartender. "Nothing
much," replied the bartender. "Just the Fitzpatrick twins getting
drunk again!"
Joke 4 The U.S. Postal Service created a stamp earlier this year with a picture
of President Bush to honor his achievements while in office. However,
it was found that in daily use the stamp was not sticking to envelopes
at all. So the President established a blue ribbon commission to determine
the reason for such a defect. After a month's testing, (and $5 million
later) the commission made the following findings: 1. The stamp was found
to be in perfect order. 2. There was nothing wrong with the consistency
of the applied adhesive. 3. People were just spitting on the wrong side.
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