Radio announcers can't do math

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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.

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