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Berlusconi loves Marinella ties!

NAMOR

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Originally Posted by ginlimetonic
Berlusconi also loves underage girls and bunga bunga parties.. your point being? he's a media billionaire who spends lavishly.
damnit! you beat me to it
 

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Originally Posted by HarleyBob
Sorry guys and gals, but I am having a hard time believing this. He would have to purchase approximately 55 ties (assuming an average $200 each) a month and that would be at full retail (I have even taken into account VAT.) I am having a hard time believing that anyone who would purchase 55 ties a month would have to pay full retail. Let's say he gets a 20% quantity discount, that equals to 70 ties per month. Good grief, does Marinella even have that many different ties?

Tiny prints and dots arranged just so can a different tie make.
 

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Originally Posted by HarleyBob
Sorry guys and gals, but I am having a hard time believing this. He would have to purchase approximately 55 ties (assuming an average $200 each) a month and that would be at full retail (I have even taken into account VAT.) I am having a hard time believing that anyone who would purchase 55 ties a month would have to pay full retail. Let's say he gets a 20% quantity discount, that equals to 70 ties per month. Good grief, does Marinella even have that many different ties?

+1 for actually doing the math here. I'd have to agree with Manton that most of these were probably not for his own use. Still... That's a lot of ties.
 

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Originally Posted by aravenel
+1 for actually doing the math here. I'd have to agree with Manton that most of these were probably not for his own use. Still... That's a lot of ties.

A lot of friends...
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Gaddaffi has a few of them in his wardrobe without any doubt.
 

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Originally Posted by lasbar
A lot of friends...
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Gaddaffi has a few of them in his wardrobe without any doubt.


Silvio in a Marinella and Gaddafi in a Marinella that Gaddfi gave him ( maybe
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And maybe 2 more Marinellas

silvio-berlusconi16099.jpg
 

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Originally Posted by rnoldh
Silvio in a Marinella and Gaddafi in a Marinella that Gaddfi gave him ( maybe
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And maybe 2 more Marinellas

silvio-berlusconi16099.jpg


I love the photo of Italian massacres on the left...

He do you want some roads to be built?

Have a tie with them.
 

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He should have purchased them from me. More money to spend on Bunga Bunga.
 

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Originally Posted by Manton
It's possible--perhaps likely--that all the ties were not for personal use. Like I said, he gives a lot of Marinellas away.
I have one of the Berlusconi gift ties myself. It came to me by way of a cousin who works in DC. Evidently, they were fairly common swag during his diplomatic visits. It's a nice tie, though, and its provenance is enjoyable. As we know, I am a fellow Marinella obsessive. I haven't quite reached the level of dropping hundreds of thousands on them, but I would estimate that I've got somewhere between $5k and $8k worth of Marinellas in my closet (granted, they were collected over about a six-year period).
 

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^^^^^

There you go . Do the math: _bunga bunga parties X _under-aged starlets/party X the cost of a scarf (more than a tie I would guess)

Throw in some state visits and there you have it
 

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