Six million dollar man?

The quickest test to see whether someone was born in the 1950s and 1960s is to ask 'who was the six million dollar man'? If they answer Lee Majors, then they were born in those decades; if not, they weren't.

(A follow up question could be: who was he married to, the answer being Farrah Fawcett-Majors, of Charlie's Angel's fame: you now know two or my favourite programmes as a teenager).

Anyway, this blog came about due to this email received this morning, from my sister-in-law, Vicki, one of the UK's top gold- and silver- smiths:

(It was the end of a humorous exchange about something else)

Vicki, with her knowledge of gold, but must know about such things, but I decided to work out 'what would my weight in gold be?'

Bathroom scales can lie, especially with my eyesight, but fortunately I have just had my annual medical, so more or less know my weight, and the gold price is now around $1,470/ounce.

So, a quick calculation, some rounding, and my weight in gold is $4.5million (£3.4million); Jane may not be as lucky as Farrah, but she is still a very lucky girl.

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