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Ink More Expensive Than Champagne

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the silly-comparisons dept.

laing writes "According to this story, ink for home printers is now seven times more expensive than vintage champagne.Ink in a typical replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre, compared with 1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per millilitre." Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!

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  1. Reassignment of terms. by Ignorant+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ink costs more than champagne? What?! That's not the natural order of things. To correct this problem, the French must immediately start drinking printer ink and printing with champagne. That should kill a few problems with one stone (sorry for the mixed metaphor). To clear up the resulting confusion we will call printer ink "Freedom Champagne" and champagne, "printer ink 2: full-speed".

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    1. Re:Reassignment of terms. by Uart · · Score: 5, Funny

      what will really blow your mind is when you realize that gasoline is cheaper than bottled water...

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    2. Re:Reassignment of terms. by Enraged_jawa · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Evian" spelled backwards is "Naive" .. the French knew all along

    3. Re:Reassignment of terms. by dcmeserve · · Score: 5, Funny
      Historically homo-sapiens always had the need to carry around something. Whether it was a rock, a spear, sword, etc;...

      [Ooog walks into cave]

      Bogg: Hi, Ooog! I see you have your rock with you.

      Ooog: Yeah, I know, it's kinda heavy, but, well, you know, ya gotta carry something...

      Bogg: Oh, I know! Believe me!

      [Bogg picks up his rock]

      Bogg: I've had this sucker for 3 days now. It really fills the void left when I threw my last rock into the river...

      Ooog: What'd you do that for, anyways?

      Bogg: Oh, well, you know, gotta throw something...

      Ooog: Oh yeah, I hear ya!

      Boog: Hey, can you believe they're charging three squirrels for a good rock nowadays?

      Ooog: Oh, man, that sucks! That's even more than a good clay pot -- those are 2 squirrels, maybe 2 and a half max!

      Bogg: Yeah, man, why are there so many idiots who would pay so much just for a rock?!

      Ooog: Well, ya know, gotta carry something...

      Bogg: Oh, yeah, I hear ya!

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  2. And the buzz is better by Lane.exe · · Score: 5, Funny
    Plus, the rad high you get from sipping ink completely blows away that bubbly kind of drunk you get when you pound the Christobal.

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  3. On the other hand... by Raindance · · Score: 5, Funny

    People are taking this so negatively; just revel in the fact that champaign is so cheap!

  4. Bootlegging by retto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean people are going to start bootlegging ink? Will the great crime families ditch the drug trade for the undergound ink market? I fear the day our great cities are brought under the heel of the ink barons.

  5. lucky drunks by abe_is_fun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even though ink is more expensive than fine champagne, and therefore is better than fine champagne (proof by induction), you shouldn't drink it.

    It would stain your teeth some ugly color like #006666, and you would never get a date and you would die cold and alone, a pitiful 30 year old virgin.

    Instead, drink beer -- it's been helping ugly people get laid for over 200 years!

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  6. Other shocking comparisons.. by L.+VeGas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pound for pound...

    Poodles cost more than horses!

    Crack whores cost more than fatties!

    Eardrums cost more than eyeballs!

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  7. Get Smart by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny
    Chief: This desk runs entirely on ink.

    Max: But chief, that's incredible. Do you realize what this could mean to our energy supply?

    Chief: Unfortunately its an extremely rare type of ink that can only be found in the Middle East.

    Yes I'm paraphrasing, but that's the first thing that came to mind;-)

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  8. Re:Slashdot is too UK-centric by dinog · · Score: 5, Funny
    USD $2.84

    Thanks to : http://www.xe.com/ucc/

    So a bottle of Lexmark ink would cost USD 2132.00. Unfortunately, it doesn't taste nearly as good, and goes rather poorly with lobster. The initial bouquet is bad, the nose just aweful, and the horrid taste sticks to you tongue like, well, ink.

    Dean G.

  9. What the hell have I been doing? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 5, Funny

    I need to stop printing and start drinking. Its "cheaper". Yeah honney. I was thinking about printing out the manual for your new stairmaster, but I wanted to save money so I drank a case of cris and then put it together.

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  10. Re:Hardcore dupe action by dark-br · · Score: 5, Funny

    New /. slogan: "News that mattered. Stuff for the amnesiac." ;)