*43. I have no idea what this means, either.
*44. Donald Trump actually appears to be asserting this about Thoreau.
*45. A terrific entertainer.
*46. No shit.
*47. A legend.
*48. This last one is a joke. But only barely.
*49.
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*50. Kennedy, La Guardia, and Newark. Allow three hours to get to any of these airports, unless of course it is rush hour, in which case your best bet is to drive to the airport in Cleveland.
*51. I could never be a flight attendant; I would last maybe two flights before I killed a passenger with my bare hands.
*52. You don’t have a savings account, remember? You meant to open one, but you never got around to it because of all your other urgent financial priorities, such as his ’n’ hers Jet Skis.
*53. This figure will drop to approximately zero later this week when SEC auditors announce that the corporate books reflect reality to about the same extent as Horton Hears a Who.
*54. See “savings account.”
*55. At 27.5 percent interest, compounded hourly, this balance will be an even fifteen grand by noon.
*56. This is a “fixed balance” type of mortgage, meaning no matter how many payments you make, you will still owe the bank $117,392.90 (see chapter titled “How to Get Rich in Real Estate”).
*57. Answer: the front part.
*58. In the form of scantily dressed pink iPods.
*59. These were recorded and later released as the platinum-selling album Odor of Love.
*60. Even as you read these words, somewhere in a hall in Philadelphia there is a guy wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt, still waiting for The Who.
*61. So to speak.
*62. “Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog.”
*63. If Keith Richards is, in fact, dead when you read this, please substitute Cher.
*64. Really.
*65. Cher will still be on her Farewell Tour.
Photography Credits
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Images (medal), (brain), (clown), (coffee maker), (except Trump), (operation, machine, and dolls), (except UFO and movie stills), (house), (brain), and (except carry-on) © 2006 JupiterImages Corporation.
Images (tire), (UFO), (Troll), (carry-on), and (normal toilet paper) © 2006 stock.xchng.
Photos of Suze Orman, Donald Trump, and Prince Charles courtesy of AP/World Wide Photos.
Photo of world’s largest Cheeto courtesy of Bryce Wilson.
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[[Money secrets]]
Dave Barry’s money secrets : like: why is there a giant eyeball on the dollar?.
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