Friday, July 29, 2011

Money Cant Buy .......

Ok so this isnt my post - I stole it from stuff.co.nz, but I found it amuzing :)

Confirmation that Graeme Hart has kept his top-dog status as New Zealand's wealthiest person, with a fortune worth an estimated $6.5 billion, has got Stuff thinking about money - a lot.

Hart could buy about 40,980 white lions worth $158,600 each or Fiji, which has a GDP worth $4.4b.
But what couldn't you buy if you had Hart's billions?
Here's our top 10 list (post your own suggestions in the comments below):

1 - Richie McCaw
To the disappointment of hundreds of Kiwi women, the All Blacks captain can't be bought for obvious reasons - he is taken. And he's just too upstanding.

2- Class
As the old saying goes, you just can't buy class. We're not talking about the snooty Upstairs-Downstairs kind, but people who get things done, who inspire us to do better. We're thinking Nelson Mandela, Sir Edmund Hillary. You get the point.

3 - Google
How fun would it be to own the internet giant? You could take over the Googlplex, which comes with pool tables, volleyball courts, assorted video games, pianos, ping-pong tables, and gyms. Unfortunately, it's way over budget as the company is worth $192b.

4 - The FIFA World Cup
Russia plans to fork out a whopping NZ$25.8b for the 2018 Cup. The Rugby World Cup, by comparison, is a bargain at $310m.

5 - The World
No, we're not talking about the planet, obviously. Think smaller. The World is an artificial archipelago off the coast of Dubai worth about US$14b. Don't know if it's worth buying though, as the islands are reportedly sinking back into the sea.

6 - A property in Antarctica
Besides the lack of basic amenities, the frozen continent is protected by a treaty which prevents, among other things, military activities, mining and nuclear blasts or power.

7 - The Mona Lisa
Put simply, it's priceless and not for sale. You could, however, fly to Paris and wait in an excruciating line at the Louvre Museum to see it. Been there, done that? How about getting a Chinese jewelery collector's replica. The fake comes with 100,000 carats of jewellery.

8 - Dance moves
Not everyone can be Michael Jackson or Beyonce. Let's face it, most people look plain rude dancing. If you don't get the rhythm, you just don't get it.

9 - Health
Money and the best doctors can't stop nature from taking its course in the end.

10 - Love
Money can't buy you love (thank you Beatles). Unless, you're Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner of course. Oh wait. Runaway bride Crystal Harris this week proved he can't either.


Wanna know something interesting about that story..... I had to google who Graeme Hart was!

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