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29 Jul 2024 22:22:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A rare moment  
From: andrel
Date: 21 Sep 2011 16:57:12
Message: <4E7A4FA9.7000604@gmail.com>
On 21-9-2011 10:23, Invisible wrote:
> On 20/09/2011 09:30 PM, Darren New wrote:
>
>> Somehow, I read that literally the first time, and thought of all the
>> charities that collect $X for every mile you walk.
>
> LOL.
>
> Actually, I was thinking... Our dance school really, really needs air
> conditioning. Do you know what happens if you put 80 people in a room
> with no windows and make them do strenuous exercise for 60 minutes? Let
> me tell you: it gets *warm*, and most of all it gets *humid*. Not fun.
>
> I was thinking, we could have a dance marathon to raise money to install
> a cooling system. Something like "you pay me X for every Y seconds of
> dancing I manage to pull off without dropping dead". We have several
> dances that severely tax all but the fittest dancers...
>
> ...yeah, I'm sure it'll never happen. Nice idea though. ;-)

That works the wrong way. The worse your room is the less you can 
collect. A more logical scheme would be 'you pay me X for every dancer 
that drops dead within some fixed time'.

-- 
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.


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