Thursday 24 July 2008

You Think Oil Is Expensive?

US light sweet crude.....................$130brl


Coca Cola.....................................$126brl


Milk..............................................$163brl


Perrier Water................................$300brl


Budweiser.....................................$447brl


Starbucks latte..............................$954brl


Ben & Jerry's ice cream...............$1,609brl


Tabasco sauce.............................$6,155brl


Chanel No 5..........................$1,666,560brl


Note: these facts were compiled by a contact on a certain foreign exchange desk in Singapore, who clearly has way too much time on his hands. I have no idea whether or not they bear any relation to reality. Well, except for the fact that as and when we need to tighten the belt, it might have to be the Tabasco sauce that goes. It's a hot :-) commodity in the kitchen, goes on everything, and seems to disappear at a considerable rate of knots. The only thing I have seen vanish faster was our ex-commodities trader when it was his turn to buy the desk sweeties. Which reminds me, his marbles are still knocking around here somewhere....

5 comments:

Daddy Papersurfer said...

Now I'm seriously worried ...... I can't quite remember what about though ..... oh well, I'm sure it'll drift back ..... what's for tea?

Daddy Papersurfer said...

[I was just going to complain your feeds weren't working but I'd forgotten to add them to my reader - I think it's going very well!]

Somnambulist said...

You have a "reader"? Like a real person who looks at your page.. and reads stuff? Cooool! Where do I get one of them...?

Daddy Papersurfer said...

Any goddess will do .... tee hee ..... you'll find them shopping most places [hiding under table now - shuuuuush]

Somnambulist said...

Thanks for the advice!

Memo to SparklyAphrodite@Olympia.com....