# Fifty bucks? Still too much! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042 "2001-11-30T00:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pincushion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@pincushion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pincushion)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/21 "2001-11-30T08:35:05Z")
I’d take the $5 and invest it in a brand new silver nailclipper. (Actually I’m not quite sure how much those things cost.) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/22 "2001-11-30T12:07:58Z")
Wow. 20 replies, and every one a “whoosh.” I’d take **Fiver** out for coffee and ask him about improv. Christ, people, pay attention! ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/23 "2001-11-30T12:33:19Z")
Good work, **Ethilrist**. The coffee shop “Sacred Grounds” is just a short walk from my house. Yes, my neighborhood is still cool enough to have an independent coffee shop and not a Starbuck’s. I’d use an unexpected five-dollar bill to buy two comics that I wouldn’t normally buy, but had a marginal interest in. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/24 "2001-11-30T13:06:31Z")
Burger and fries, people, burger and fries. Oh, and a coke. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/25 "2001-11-30T13:21:43Z")
I’d give **Fiver** his birthday spanking. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/26 "2001-11-30T13:23:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*I’d give **Fiver** his birthday spanking. 😉 \*\* Oooh! Spank me! Spanke me! and then… the ORAL SEX! ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/27 "2001-11-30T15:45:20Z")
Whatever the GM wants… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/28 "2001-11-30T16:19:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > > \*\*5 bucks for smokes! My god! The cheapest pack I’ve bought here was 6.10 I usually pay 6.46 and the most I’ve seen is 7.10. > > > > 5 bucks? I’d go get myself a happy meal on Sinday from Mickey Dees… and a lotto ticket… \*\* > > :eek: !! > > Where the heck do you live?? > > ::crosses the answer off of her list of places to visit without a carton from someplace cheap:: \*\* Yeah, where? I don’t smoke, but I occasionally buy them for my mom, and it seems that 2.50-4.00 is the most I’ve ever noticed a pack going for, and some brands are in the $2 range. ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/29 "2001-11-30T16:31:42Z")
Jeepers, people, check the profiles… Canadian smokes are a minimum of 5 bucks a pack. Of course, $5 Canadian = about $3 US right now. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/30 "2001-11-30T22:52:34Z")
I live in Edmonton Alberta peoples… With the dollar as it is the smokes would still be cheap for you guys though. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/31 "2001-11-30T23:42:49Z")
well, in that case… i would continuse with my nefarious plot, except i would pay for it myself and i would put the mints on fiver’s orange juice glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/32 "2001-12-01T03:52:06Z")
I’d buy a six-pack of IBC root beer and a comic book. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/33 "2001-12-01T04:17:36Z")
Are we talking an american 5 bucks? If we are, I’d change it for australian money and retire. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/34 "2001-12-01T04:21:24Z")
Oh, I got the “_fiver_”/ **Fiver** thing. It’s just that, well, I’d _still_ buy myself lunch. 😉 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/35 "2001-12-01T05:15:49Z")
I’d sit on the edge of the down eating _flayrah_ stolen from Nuthanger Farm as the sun set behind us, laughing about how absolutely f\*\*\*ed Woundwort was in the end. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/36 "2001-12-01T11:50:18Z")
A large CodeRed Slurpee and some Coolranch Doritos. ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/37 "2001-12-01T15:48:16Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrVisible \* > \*\*Buy twenty superballs from the local gumball machine, and distribute them liberally throughout the workplace, at high velocities. \*\* Actually, I did something like that once. When I was 10, I was at a friends birthday party, which was at an arcade. There was this puzzle game that gave rubber superballs as prizes even if you lost. I had about 5 dollars on me at the time and spent it all at the game. Needless to say, I wound up with about 25 superballs. After the party, my friend and I went to a nearby mall because she wanted to spend some of her birthday money. After she bought some stuff, we were getting bored and did not have to meet her mom for a while, so we began to play with my superballs (yes I am aware of how dirty that sounds). Soon, one of us got the brillant idea to release them all at once down the escaltor. We went up to the top floor and waited for a while so no one was on it (it was 4:00 on a tuesday so there were not too many people). After counting to three, we flung handfulls of them down the stairs. They began bouncing everywhere down the escalator and off to the sides and down to the first floor. Hilarity ensued. People stopped what they were doing and pointed at the superballs, which were now bouncing and rolling around the food court. We hid behind a railing and could not stop laughing. Let’s just say that the management was not impressed, but we did not get in too much trouble. I would do it again in a hearbeat though, it really was hilarious. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/38 "2001-12-05T05:50:52Z")
I finally found a cheaper place to buy smokes… 5.75! Whoohoo! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/39 "2001-12-05T05:58:33Z")
If I also had a video camera I might make myself a little home movie version of “Night of the Lepus.” ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042/40 "2001-12-05T06:01:04Z")
Go buy a (used) CD for one of my friends for Christmas. Hey, I’m poor… ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks-still-too-much/96042.md?page=1)