"How much is a Billion?"

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising  agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of  its  releases:

• A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
• A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive
• A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
• A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.

-- courtesy of Mike Snyder