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    Useless Trivial facts

    When any number is multiplied by 9, the sum of the resulting digits is equal to 9 16 * 9 = 144 1+ 4+ 4 =9
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    Useless Trivial facts

    The average human has less than 10 fingers.
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    Useless Trivial facts

    ^ I believe a lot of Italians immigrated to SA after ww2, also indentured to work for the government and given the same acronyms. The british also refered to Indians (continental) as Western Oriental Gentelmen.
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    RBA wants us to spend and save at the same time.

    When I buy silver I am spending and saving at the same time, that is the beauty of it.
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    Workers warned about risks of super smurfs

    Fixed it for you.
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    Useless Trivial facts

    mmm...shiney! is quite the cunning linguist! The chemical symbol for lead is pb, from the latin? word for lead 'plumbum' - also the root of the word plumber.
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    Useless Trivial facts

    Keep 'em coming!
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    How to identify unc 1966 rounds

    And now a '66 50c is about $10, store of value anybody?
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    All tarred with the same brush.

    OT some more, has anybody researched where the expression 'tarred with the same brush' comes from? "The idiom appears in print first in 1818, in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels, Rob Roy: "They are a' tarr'd wi' the same stick rank Jacobites and Papists." Back in the day, tarr'd meant...
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    Thinking of writing a Book.....

    Amazing. Well done.
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    A thought on aust gov silver confiscation, comments welcome

    The can't confiscate what they cant find.
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    Bailout of Cyprus to cost depositors 10% immediately

    ^ Write a cheque to a family member @ another bank and back - date it to before tax was announced.
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    How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet

    You forgot poverty / rape / taxes / road accidents / bank failures / longer working hours / childhood obesity / gout and head lice.
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    Rising Australian dollar and housing prices... how do they correlate?

    Significantly higher dollar -> offshoring of jobs & closing of marginal mines -> under / un employment -> morgage stress -> more homes on the market -> home prices fall. Stronger dollar -> perception of strong economy -> capital inflows -> strong stock market.
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    $786 Silver wouldnt that be nice

    I changed the date on my computer to 17/3/2014 and got the same thing!
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    Silver Surplus and Supply Forecast

    Surplii :)
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    Protection of Wealth

    Tease.
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    Protection of Wealth

    The wealth in terms of labour invested has been preserved, grown a little maybe. Here's an interesting one, thought I'd plot local petrol prices against silver spot to have a look at wealth measured as purchasing power of fuel: Spent a lot of time around the 10 litre mark, to return...
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    Australia: Where the good life comes at a price

    Anybody ever travelled to the USA for a shopping trip? A quick google tells me my next bike is at least 10K less in USA. Add GST, freight, compliance and the flight and theres still enough money left over to fund a few days in Vegas.
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