How Much is That Baby on the Magazine Cover?

While looking at various news sites today, I came across an article on MSNBC that discussed the lucrative business of celebrity baby pictures.

It mentioned how Brangelina could get $15 million for pics of the couple’s twins.

It then gave a list of things you could buy with $15 million: some items serious, some amusing, but all still good enough to share (and/or think about.) 

· Approximately 12,500 tanks of diesel fuel for 18-wheelers (based on 300-gallon tank).

· One worthless New York Yankee, and change (Carl Pavano makes $11 million).

· About 1,875,000 bushels of corn.

· Almost four Kobe Bryant forgiveness rings.

· Approximately 75 three-bedroom homes in Stockton, Calif.

· Approximately seven three-bedroom homes in Beverly Hills, Calif.

· About 13,600 Apple laptop computers.

· Five 30-second commercials during the next Super Bowl.

· Approximately seven to 15 blast-resistant vehicles for soldiers in Iraq, depending on size of the vehicles and how they are equipped.

· About 220 new public-school teachers in the state of South Dakota — and that’s if you doubled the average salary for a teacher in that state, which is the lowest in the nation at roughly $34,000.

· About 1,500 bottles of 1966 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Romanee St. Vivant.

· Somewhere between 4.28 million and 7.5 million bottles of Charles Shaw, depending on the region.

·  One year of tuition, room and board, and books for 333 students to attend Ivy League universities.

· A two-week supply of Plumpy’nut peanut food paste for about 2,142,857 malnourished children in Africa.

· Angelina Jolie to star in your film, depending on the project.

· Average weddings for between 300 and 750 couples, depending on area of the country.

· Slightly less than one-third of the breeding rights to Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown.

· Roughly 11,540 seven-day Hawaiian cruises.

· About 105,633 bottles of Viagra (90 pills in each bottle, 90 mg).

· About 412 new firefighters in New York City.

· About 349 prisoners kept behind bars for one year.

· Approximately 7,500 babies provided with disposable diapers from birth through potty training.

· One anchor for the “CBS Evening News” for one year.

· The care and feeding of 15,000 dogs and 15,000 cats for one year.

· The annual salaries for just over 88 U.S. senators.

· Somewhere around 25,000 pairs of Jimmy Choo pumps.

· About 2,500 Gibson Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul Custom guitars.

· Approximately 20 cities hosting the Olympic Torch (with costs coming mostly from police overtime).

· The training of 10 Air Force pilots.

· Breakfasts for roughly 11,111,000 school children nationwide for one school year under the federal government’s School Breakfast Program.

· One year of cable television for about 300,000 people.

· Knee-replacement surgeries for approximately 882 patients performed in top-tier U.S. hospitals.

· Knee-replacement surgeries for approximately 3,000 patients performed in top-tier hospitals in India.

· Subscriptions to People magazine for about 131,578 new subscribers (based on 45 percent discount off the newsstand price).

· Live-in nannies for 288 couples with newborn twins for one year (based on fee of $700 per week for one baby plus another $300 per week as a twin supplement).