uhhhhhhh, £2.5bn

Will this buy me many Doritos?

How much is £2.5bn? Is that billion?

Regardless, I know where teh next Fark party is being held!

Check out one of the links on the left sidebar.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,658631,00.html

"Harold Wilson's government forgot to include the Queen in the list of those who should be informed about preparations for nuclear war, according to secret documents released yesterday."

Oops.

2.5 billion pounds is somewhere around 4-5 billion dollars... shiat.

Imagine how much I would be able to give to the NAACP!!

"Aigh, tis Handsome Pete, and he dances for nickles"

Any Brits here? I understand the laws over there really screw you guys over if you find any sort of "treasure" - as in valuable historical artifacts.

Boy that would suck.

(explorers) "Yes! Finally - after half our lives searching we've found it!!"

(British government) "Why thank you! We'll be taking that...and here's £5 for your troubles."

Are there any Japanese FARKERS??

Tell me now damn it!!!

My house is made of £2.5bn worth of gold.

I also have a rocket car.

BLOCKBUSTER hamster dance????????

What the hell???????

HAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!

Spock!!!!!!!

Its my money! I WROTE THAT POEM!

erhm uh ok look this odyssey company is really good at finding this sort of thing isnt it? if i were them i'd keep a lid on this treasure thing and take the gold. somehow. ok maybe thats not politically possible.

Is it just me or did the story about the man decaptitataing another mans head and puting it on the hood of his car get taken off the main page?

yup. it did.

Na, its still there. Must be you.

Nox - It's just you.

maybe i'll try my link...can't think of a decent title though...

Nope, it's definitely gone. Must have been the fact that it was a repeat.

Graenutts -
How about "a site for quiet contemplation"

Give it to the Gibralter Apes.

fark'um Grapenutts, post it as a brittany spears boobie post

No, the "what's wrong with this picture" works. It's because it forces you concentrate on the picture, thus making the effect greater.

Haaaaarrrrrrrr!

Post it as a How many things can you find wrong with this pic IQ test thingie. That I'll get a whole bunch of engorged ego farkers clickin' it.

dernit! someone beat me to my own link!!!

oh well. hope it gets posted.

Bcp01scu05: Actually, this is the really cool part: if bn does indeed stand for billion, then 2.5 bn pounds is NOT 4-5 billion dollars. Since the brits are really farked up, one billion isn't a thousand million like it is here, it's a million million, or what we'd call a trillion. Chew on that for a sec.... 4-5 TRILLION dollars. Somehow that doesn't seem possible. But if it is.... screw the war on terrorism, let's go after England!!

Let's just party in Ibiza instead

I'm not 100% certain on this, but I think - despite what might be 'official' - most people in the UK, or anywhere in the world, would understand 'billion' to mean thousand million, not million million.

This wreck is worth $4bn or so.. there's no way it could be trillions, the entire economy of the UK is only worth around $2tn per annum.

I imagine the bn means bullion, as otherwise it would result in an amount of tonnage that no single ship could hold unless it was the size of Idaho. bullion meaning gold coins.

Boyd: After doing a little more searching, I now have to agree with you. The original definiton and the one still commonly used in Enlgand IS million million. However, more and more people in England have started using the US definition of thousand million. The Guardian appears to use the latter.

Yeah, but how much soup is that?

Oh, btw, I used the OED online for info. http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00022111 is the definition of billion.

Hey, Liz, New York has a bridge they want to sell you.

ArmyOfFun: "Arrggh! A quarter! He'll be dancing for hours!"
The quote they almost ALWAYS cut out in syndication!

Did someone mention "soup"?

I had initially thought that 10 tons of gold would have an effect on world gold prices, depressing them drastically... until, of course, I discovered that the United States currently has over 8100 tons of gold! Germany comes next, with over 3400 tons, and France is third, with 3000 tons! (Let's ask the French for their gold so they can surrender again.)

Guys, it's thousand million practically the world over -- maybe some hardcore OED-fan old guys still use million million, but really, it's 10^9.

...this could make a wonderful vacation. If I get enough gold, I could buy my own island...a little island paradise...

Gibraltar eh? i was almost married there.

lol shameless.. nice donkey kong reference... teletoon?

The idiots who found the reckage really need a lesson. "HEY WE JUST FOUND 4 BILLION DOLLARS SITTING HERE, PLZ NO TAKE IT".

This will not be a "Recreational" Dive, Get out the R.O.V.

I'd prefer a muff dive...

"Get your scuba gear together..."

Sgt Napalm is right. 3000ft = 90.9 atmospheres of pressure.
That would be pretty messy.