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April 5, 2002
Radio announcers can't do math
Clear Channel communications, the owner of piles of radio stations across the country, was running a 'Win a million dollars' promotion. One of the jocks at the local Atlanta station demonstrated a serious lack of basic arithmetic skills when she came up with this:
So, you like the idea of riding on the Concorde? Over to London in first class? That costs, what, $40,000 a trip? Well, if you win a million dollars from us, you can ride the Concorde every other day for the next 50 years ...
Umm ... do the math. If you assume a 40% tax bite, she may be off by a factor of as much as 600.