Patterico's Pontifications

6/26/2010

The $1.7B Tennis Match

Filed under: Government — DRJ @ 12:04 am



[Guest post by DRJ]

Remember the Isner-Mahut tennis match at Wimbledon that lasted over 11 hours and spanned 3 days? That’s a long match but it’s nothing compared to how much the national debt increased during the same time period:

“Shortly after the 11-hour, five-minute match between American John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, of France, Buchanan posted the following to Twitter: “Think Wimbledon tickets are expensive? Our National Debt has gone up by $1,729,000,000 during the Isner v. Mahut match #USA.”

— DRJ

7 Responses to “The $1.7B Tennis Match”

  1. USA! USA! USA!….

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  2. Fault!

    Gesundheit (cfa313)

  3. So… if they instituted a sudden death rule in tennis, we would have saved a billion or two dollars?

    Aaron Worthing (A.W.) (f97997)

  4. haiku watch this match
    three days running back and forth
    sore neck in Summer

    ColonelHaiku (181d1a)

  5. No one piles it higher, nor does it bigger than the USA.

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