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leemajors
11-13-2007, 12:49 PM
Not sure if this has been posted, but

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

pretty cool game, good for the brain. donates rice for every correct answer. i hover around level 39-44 for the most part, but they're pretty easy to guess for the most part.

easjer
11-13-2007, 12:54 PM
I've done that! I've gotten to 47, but can't seem to break it. It sucks that if you miss one, you've got to get three right to move back up. Especially since I missed, like, 3 in a row. :lol

peewee's lovechild
11-13-2007, 01:19 PM
I stopped when my rice donation reached 1,000 grains of rice.
I don't want to spoil the poor.

My vocab level was at 45

The sone
11-13-2007, 01:39 PM
i aint feedin no won wif mah vocab skillz

Jekka
11-13-2007, 02:06 PM
The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely, along with diseases related to hunger and poverty, is about $195 billion a year.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion -- roughly double the amount the White House has requested thus far, according to a new report by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee. Link (http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/13/news/economy/bc.warcosts.ap/index.htm)

At the risk of getting all political and shit, the relationship between these two numbers was pretty depressing with the cost of both wars equaling 8 years without world hunger.

I've donated 500 grains so far today, and whilst I procrastinate I'll do another 500 :)

peewee's lovechild
11-13-2007, 02:09 PM
At the risk of getting all political and shit, the relationship between these two numbers was pretty depressing with the cost of both wars equaling 8 years without world hunger.

I've donated 500 grains so far today, and whilst I procrastinate I'll do another 500 :)

We could have also used the $1.6 trillion to come up with alternative energy.

Screw world hunger, I just don't want to be paying $5 a gallon.

CuckingFunt
11-13-2007, 05:36 PM
2,000 grains of rice, vocab level 43

E20
11-13-2007, 05:39 PM
Geez...............I guess I could donate a 1000000000000000000000000000000000000 grains of rice with m-w.com on my side.

E20
11-13-2007, 05:55 PM
The max vocab level is 50.