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Forbes Fictional 15
DevanJedi writes "Forbes has created a list of 15 wealthy fictional characters with hilarious biographies describing the sources of their riches. Lex Luthor, C. Montgomery Burns and Bruce Wayne figure in the list, among others. J.R. Ewing was dropped from the list this year after 'Ewing Oil filed for bankruptcy in the wake of massive accounting scandal.'"
None of these are anywhere close to Roger Zelazny's Francis Sandow. He was rich enough to own planets.
I would also maybe think that number 16 on the list could be Mr. Lodge from Archie, Veronica Lodge's father.
They missed some far more interesting characters:
Gregory "Elephant" Pelton, hier to the Jumpshift teleportation fortune, from Niven's Known Space universe.
"Hotblack" Desiato, lead singer from Disaster Area.
Woodrow Wilson Smith, a.k.a. Lazarus Long. (being exceptionally long lived does have its benefits when ammassing wealth).
In the same vein, Mr. "Flint" from ST:TOS.
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http://www.forbes.com/2002/08/12/0812deadintro.htm l
Its impressive to make that much money, not only in retirement, but when you've been dead for years.
Oh, that is simple:
> quintiplitilion unptuplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion
stand all for 1 and
> three cubic acres
a "cubic acre" stands exactly for the amount of volume required to house $2.73 billion in gold coins.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
What about Mr.Burns trillion dollar bill?
...when a magazine and writer are repeatedly wrong in the same direction against the same products year after year even when showed evidence to the contrary each time, yes. They're off my read-list.
When that same writer repeatedly stands up for astroturfing analyst firms whos editorial process includes calling the superiors of a blogger and attempting to have the person fired, they're off my read-list.
The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
Really. It looks like a majority of the rich fictional characters listed received their fortunes by inheritance, not through their own efforts.
Is that a wry criticism of the failure of capitalism?
(Probably not)
You're missing the latest history!
2002--Communism fails utterly at the North Pole due to the nature of the elves. Claus VII, flying clockwise around the earth making the Christmas rounds, collides with Anti-Claus, who was flying counterclockwise. A huge explosion and blinding flash of light occurs, leading scientists to believe that they annihilated each other.
2007--The North Pole becomes a democracy, run wholly by the elves. Christmas is no longer commercialized or exploited. Happiness is finally achieved throughout the kingdom.
2011--It is discovered that Claus VII did not die in the explosion, but merely made it appear so. From there he went to live in the Bahamas. He is later found, dead of a heart attack, in a jacuzzi with two and a half dozen nymphets.
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Anyone know the origin of this? I found it on a few sites, but this one is the only one that mentions any form of credit (using the word lightly there).
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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The Money Bin is at least 20 meters on each side. That's 8000 cubic
meters. Take away the room for Scrooge's office and as a lower bound
assume hexagonal closest packing of spherical gold coins, that leaves
about 5500 m^3 of gold. At a specific weight of 19320kg/m^3 and
today's closing gold price of $506 per troy oz, that's 1.66 _trillion_
dollars. And then there are his mining, shipping, ranching and other
interests...
I really don't get it.
How can Richie Rich, a certified nobody and fictional at that, be richer than old McDuck?
And ole Santa? They surely aren't quite as serious as they ought to be when it comes to fictional wealth.
That being said, Scrooge McDuck is the richest, sexiest and whatever.
20 minutes into the future