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Inept said:
Back when they proudly dislplayed the sign "One Million Sold!"
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Hmmm... Lets do the math, just for kicks. (Pure Speculation Warning!)

They stopped tallying up sales all over the world and simply changed the signs to say "Over 99 Billion Sold" after 40 years in 1994. That would be 31 years ago, but for just simplicity lets call it 30.

99,000,000,000 / 40 = 2,475,000,000 (1994 total / 40)
2,475,000,000 * 30 = 74,250,000,000 (multiplied by 30 years)
99,000,000,000 + 74,250,000,000 = 173,250,000,000 Hamburgers sold in 70 years.

How would you like to say "Would you like fries with that?" 173,250,000,000 times? :cool:

I probably botched that if I did, feel free to laugh anyway. It's free and good for your soul to have a good laugh.
 
Inept said:
Back when they proudly dislplayed the sign "One Million Sold!"
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Axel Slingerland said:
Hmmm... Lets do the math, just for kicks. (Pure Speculation Warning!)

They stopped tallying up sales all over the world and simply changed the signs to say "Over 99 Billion Sold" after 40 years in 1994. That would be 31 years ago, but for just simplicity lets call it 30.

99,000,000,000 / 40 = 2,475,000,000 (1994 total / 40)
2,475,000,000 * 30 = 74,250,000,000 (multiplied by 30 years)
99,000,000,000 + 74,250,000,000 = 173,250,000,000 Hamburgers sold in 70 years.

How would you like to say "Would you like fries with that?" 173,250,000,000 times? :cool:

I probably botched that if I did, feel free to laugh anyway. It's free and good for your soul to have a good laugh.
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Back me up here, good buddy, because many won't believe me. After the "1 Million Sold" sign they started to revise it to "2 Million Sold" then "3 Million Sold" etc. I must have been rather young when they started with those signs so I am guessing the 1 Million Sold was somewhere around 1955?
 

ChiroDoc said:
I was thinking the same thing. In '62 or '63 I saw my first McDonalds when I went to school in Cincinnati. Like you say, I remember the sign saying, "Over 1,000,000 sold!".

Today they sell 6.5 million burgers every day, which amounts to 2.4 billion sold each year.
Gasp!!
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I'll see your "gasp" and raise you several more. :) The worse part of their products is that they taste so good. They're killing us ... but Jeeze!
 
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Inept said:
Oh yes! I remember the black soap,”throw your voice”, X-Ray specks, dog whistle, whoopee cushion, and the joy buzzer. I actually had that buzzer. You’d wind it up, slip it on your middle finger and press it on the palm of someone with a handshake.
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I had one of these things to put on your hand. I tried it on my teacher in 5th grade. I walked into class that morning and walked over to her desk. She came over to me and I smiled and put out my hand to shake her hand. She fell for it and when it buzzed it really scared her. The kids in the classroom laughed! I spent the next 2-3 hours in the principles office as my teacher did not think it was funny. The principal did not do much just told me not to do it again, but I swear I saw a bit of a grin when I was explaining to him what I had done.

My parents were not real happy...!
 
Timewise 60+ said:
I had one of these things to put on your hand. I tried it on my teacher in 5th grade. I walked into class that morning and walked over to her desk. She came over to me and I smiled and put out my hand to shake her hand. She fell for it and when it buzzed it really scared her. The kids in the classroom laughed! I spent the next 2-3 hours in the principles office as my teacher did not think it was funny. The principal did not do much just told me not to do it again, but I swear I saw a bit of a grin when I was explaining to him what I had done.

My parents were not real happy...!
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I wonder if the teachers of today are more friendly?
 
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