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If You Had $100,000 Part II

The blog entry about what $100,000 could buy you was really popular with you guys, so here’s another one. As you know, the $100,000 that will be donated to this site will be used to “buy” ten $10,000 donations to groups supporting writers and writing. But what else could you get with that money? Behold:

6.3 minutes of Charlie Sheen’s $350,000 per-episode salary for Two and a Half Men

169 bottles of 30-year-old fine oak aged Mcallan single malt whiskey

90 days of keeping Paris Hilton in jail (Taxpayer cost: $1,109 a day)

2.3 homes in Reading, PA, the cheapest place in the US to buy a home ($42,850 median price)

1/14th of a home in Newport Beach, CA, the most expensive place in the US to buy a home ($1,362,500 median price)

2.6 years at George Washington University, the most expensive private college in the US ($37,820 a year, tuition only)

96.9 years at Northern New Mexico College, the cheapest public college in the US ($1,030 a year, tuition only)

.0057% chance of winning the multi-state Mega Millions lottery by purchasing 100,000 of the possible 175,711,536 number combinations

.6318 seconds of Titanic‘s 195 minute running time (Cost to make: $200 million)

11.8 feet of the actual Titanic (Cost to build: $7.5 million)

286 “extra cute” Chihuahua puppies from the San Francisco Chronicle classifieds

167 8GB iPhones

200 human hair Jessica Simpson Collection wigs

1176 synthetic hair Jessica Simpson Collection wigs

66 replicas of Jimi Hendrix’s penis made by the infamous Cynthia “Plaster Caster” Albritton

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