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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-30-09 02:24 AM
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36. wow
Im not from the usa, so I never knew what fort knox was? I had heard the saying though.
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  -Is there any gold inside Fort Knox? Snarkoleptic  Mar-29-09 09:20 PM   #0 
  - Did you not see Goldfinger?  MrPerson   Mar-29-09 09:22 PM   #1 
  - Isn't that the Belgian chap?  Snarkoleptic   Mar-29-09 09:55 PM   #16 
     - He's Dutch.  Cynical Guy   Mar-29-09 10:20 PM   #21 
  - Didn't Bush sell a bunch of the Fort Knox gold a couple of years ago?  Gman   Mar-29-09 09:23 PM   #2 
  - So they open it up and they find Ken Lay partying with Cheney.  begin_within   Mar-29-09 09:23 PM   #3 
  - There is definitely gold in Fort Knox! I estimate  theophilus   Mar-29-09 09:24 PM   #4 
  - Prolly a steel bar that's been spray painted. IMO  Snarkoleptic   Mar-29-09 09:26 PM   #6 
  - After Bush and Cheney?  Horse with no Name   Mar-29-09 09:25 PM   #5 
  - ..  Mari333   Mar-29-09 09:31 PM   #8 
  - It holds about 4,603 tons (4 176 metric tonnes) of gold bullion (147.399 million troy ounces).  TahitiNut   Mar-29-09 09:30 PM   #7 
  - I holds...or it held?  Snarkoleptic   Mar-29-09 09:39 PM   #10 
  - What's that in, like, dollars?  Jackpine Radical   Mar-29-09 09:40 PM   #11 
  - A brazilian.  TahitiNut   Mar-29-09 09:50 PM   #15 
  - $136.7 billion US at current value (nt)  Posteritatis   Mar-30-09 01:52 AM   #35 
  - That's the stuff you put in the cups to make soup?  XemaSab   Mar-30-09 01:03 AM   #33 
  - It is kind of weird  Mojorabbit   Mar-29-09 09:35 PM   #9 
  - Louise Boyer said the Rockefellers sold it. Then she fell 10 stories to her death...  Junkdrawer   Mar-29-09 09:40 PM   #12 
  - LOLOL  anigbrowl   Mar-30-09 12:18 AM   #29 
  - when my husband was stationed there  Qanisqineq   Mar-29-09 09:41 PM   #13 
  - Probably just an IOU signed by Cheney.  flvegan   Mar-29-09 09:41 PM   #14 
  - No. The gold was removed a VERY long time ago.  Richard Steele   Mar-29-09 09:56 PM   #17 
  - Then why is someone being paid to guard the vault?  Frustratedlady   Mar-29-09 10:00 PM   #18 
     - The same reason they maintain that old SacNorad base that they give PUBLIC TOURS of 3 times a day...  Richard Steele   Mar-29-09 10:23 PM   #24 
  - As a general rule  notesdev   Mar-29-09 10:15 PM   #19 
  - Bush/Cheney ............ TREASONIST!!!! Give us our Gold back!!!! NO GOLD!!!  goforit   Mar-29-09 10:16 PM   #20 
  - My son-in-law is second or third in command at the Gold Depository at Fort Knox. He has  Democrat 4 Ever   Mar-29-09 10:26 PM   #25 
  - Here's a video from 1974  pa28   Mar-29-09 10:22 PM   #22 
  - I believe it's in the basement of the NY Fed.  Cynical Guy   Mar-29-09 10:22 PM   #23 
  - it's in both places.  dysfunctional press   Mar-29-09 11:16 PM   #26 
     - I've never seen DH3  Cynical Guy   Mar-29-09 11:23 PM   #27 
        - doesn't each country keep a portion of their 'stockpile' there...?  dysfunctional press   Mar-29-09 11:29 PM   #28 
  - As usual, most of the answers (or sources thereto) are only a click away  anigbrowl   Mar-30-09 12:20 AM   #30 
  - No. Its all in Cheney's underground vampire cavern.  provis99   Mar-30-09 12:41 AM   #31 
  - Wasn't that on pallets sent to Iraq?  moondust   Mar-30-09 12:59 AM   #32 
  - I always thought the * assholes would steal the gold given the chance.  pinniped   Mar-30-09 01:24 AM   #34 
  - wow  brettdale   Mar-30-09 02:24 AM   #36 
  - what about the gold stolen from, I mean um "melted down" in, the WTC?  soothsayer   Mar-30-09 05:10 AM   #37 
  - This sounds like a job for Geraldo Rivera  NNN0LHI   Mar-30-09 05:19 AM   #38 
 

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