[geeks] Well, crap ...

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Wasn't that one of the plot points in "Brewster's Millions" - a Richard Pryor movie? He had to spend a million dollars and have nothing left, before he could inherit many more millions... It was hard for him to do it, but then again, it was a comedy ;^)

Spending a single million dollars is easy.  Just buy a relatively modest
house in Los Altos.  It's when you get to spending multiple billions of
dollars that it gets hard.

(For a private individual, anyway ... Congress does that without
blinking, then belches and asks what's for dessert.)


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