Hatfielders,
As many (but sadly, not all) of you know, the price of the three dozen donuts we buy every week is about $18. I was thinking about what else you could get with that $18, and if it was possible to get anything else that would bring as much joy to our collective lives. Here are a few things I thought of:
17 movie sized boxes of Nerds® candy from Target (About $1, we’d get quite a sugar buzz)
3 used DVDs from Netflix ($6, we probably couldn’t agree what to get)
77% of a share in Microsoft Corp ($22, should have bought this in 1982)
50% of the cat adoption fee at the Lincoln County Shelter ($40, we could take turns petting it)
19% of the Complete Calvin and Hobbes hardcover box set ($94.50, I’d get nervous with all of you reading over my shoulder)
5% of the fall ice hockey session fee at the Eugene Ice Rink ($392, the exercise would do us all good)
0.5% of the cost of the Mazdaspeed Three-day racing school at Laguna Seca ($3699, unfortunately, the cars only have two seats)
0.04% of a 2008 Porsche Cayman ($49,500, maybe we can all chip in)
About 1 millionth of the highest-priced house ever listed ($165 million, and it’s in Beverly Hills, where else?)
I don’t know about you, but I think we should keep getting donuts. Feel free to volunteer to buy, if you haven’t in a while (or never).
-MLJ
PS->Come have a donut with us tomorrow, and ponder the possibilities…
Mattias Johansson
Marine Fisheries Genetics
Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station
Hatfield Marine Science Center
2030 SE Marine Science Drive
Newport, OR 97365
Phone: 541-867-0421
Fax: 541-867-0345
http://oregonstate.edu/~johansma
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