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As I schlepped my 17th bucket to the batcave this evening I realized that penny sorting has once and for all convinced me that a million of anything is huge. Before this, the word "million" had only been a slang exaggeration...we all use it, - well, a million times a week, right? Somebody hit the lotto last week, and I recall saying it was only 1.2 million...not a big jackpot.

Now that I've sorted and hand counted over 130,000 coins in little stacks of 25 cents each, a real million seems unfathomable.

You pretty much have to sort a million pennies to get 1 ton of copper.

Morsecode wrote: a real million seems unfathomable.

My thoughts exactly.

My goal is a ton, but I'm more than halfway there, and will be there in 4 months or so. Next goal might have to be 1,000,000 pennies.

You really want to blow your mind, try to imagine a trillion. That's a million million. Or a thousand thousand million. Or a thousand billion. Heck, even a billion is mind-boggling. A thousand million. Crazy stuff.

And thats why they should measure oil consumption in cubic miles instead of barels

And that's why they measure the national debt in...oh wait. Nevermind.

avidbrandy wrote:And that's why they measure the national debt in...oh wait. Nevermind.

Good one.

One million pennies. I've always liked this site.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/six.asp

Country wrote:One million pennies. I've always liked this site.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/six.asp

Now multiply all those pennies by 20. Then substitute a dollar for each penny and that's how much some actors/actresses make for making one garbage movie.

Tom Hanks made a cool $40 mil for Angels and Demons. Highest paid role for any actor or actress ever.

Corsair wrote:Tom Hanks made a cool $40 mil for Angels and Demons. Highest paid role for any actor or actress ever.

Ridiculous!! I would demand payment in pennies.

Corsair wrote:Tom Hanks made a cool $40 mil for Angels and Demons. Highest paid role for any actor or actress ever.

Sorry, I didn't factor in for wage inflation over the past few years. Instead multiply by 40 and then substitute a dollar bill for every penny. That's how much Hanks was paid for acting in yet another Hollywood piece of garbage.

avidbrandy wrote:And that's why they measure the national debt in...oh wait. Nevermind.

Bahahaha!


On a more serious note, I have the million marker goal. I'm almost 2/10 of the way there! Wooooooo

more......

1,000,000>999,999


Or less.....

1,000,000<1,000,001

The Megapenny website is a real kick.

It's worth a few minutes to peruse.

/1 tenth of the way to a million myself!