The honor of most expensive brewski supposedly goes to La Vieille Bon Secours. Available at the Bierdrome, London, exclusively (so they say). Hmm, drinking the most expensive beer would probably make your pee worth alot too.

Cost: $1,000 a bottle (must be a really big one) (or $75 a pint.)

This information has been published on one site. I question the $1,000 bottle cost, since that would have made news. And I could not find a link to Bierdrome in London. Beermania has a 2L bottle of this beer listed for 29 Euros or about $40.

Maybe they’re talking about a super magnum

Can anyone verify the bottle cost or Bierdrome’s existence?

So I give the award to Samuel Adams Utopia MMII. First brewed in 2001. It’s high alcohol content adds to the allure: 25% (that 50 proof!) for the 2005 batch.

Cost: $100 per 24 oz. copper bottle . You drink it warm.

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The Diamond Flower model by the Swiss company Pat Says Now holds the record as the most expensive computer mouse in the world.  The flower motif is made of 59 brilliant cut diamonds. Oh yeah, the case is gold.  This mouse is the cat’s meow (sorry about that).

Cost: $25,000

Source: PC Magazine.

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The world’s most expensive toilet will not be found on earth. The Russian designed system was purchased by NASA for the International Space Station (ISS) from S.P Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation. It comes complete with leg restraints and thigh bars. Oh yeah, here’s a bonus— it filters the urine into drinking water.

Cost: $19 million

(Source: NASA News Release July 3, 2007)

On earth, the priciest toilet is located in Hong Kong . Built in 2001, it is made of solid 24-carat gold and coated with gems. It is not for public use. It is a tourist attraction. Even the fixtures are made of gold.

Value: about $10 million (estimated)

Source: World Gold Council.

So, if you gotta go on the most expensive usable toilet, try the hands-free Neorest toilet. Made in Japan by Toto. Cyclone flush & other features here.

control panel

Cost: Up to $6,000.

While you are on the most expensive toilet, use the most expensive toilet paper. From Renova it costs $14.99 for a 3 roll luxury gift pack. Comes in red, orange, green, black, aqua and fuschia.

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The CCTV building, located in Beijing, China, will be headquarters for China’s state television network, Central Chinese Television. It is scheduled for completion in time for the 2008 Olympics. The unique contorted square was designed by Dutch architect and skyscraper re-inventor, Rem Koolhaas. Very cool, Rem. I’m delirious.

Building Cost: $800 million (estimated)

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Roger Shashoua, author of Dancing with the Bear, a Serial Entrepreneur goes East, is selling a diamond encrusted edition of his new book, which tells how he made a fortune in Russia.  How many diamonds? 600

Cost: $6 million

Source: Daily Times.

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George Washington University, located a few blocks from the White House in Washington DC, is the most expensive university in the United States, according to Washington City Paper.

Cost: $50, 630 (includes room and board) for the freshman class.

You would have to do the math but 200 grand in a stellar mutual fund for 4 years while you worked as a bartender or waiter & went to community college, might get you a better return.

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The song: Somewhere There’s An Angel.

The Artist: Thurston Revival

Cost: $198

Only a limited edition of 100 12-inch vinyl pressings will be made of the artist’s debut song. The record will be released by Victorious Kiam Records. Each will be numbered and signed by the artist. What I think is cool is that the cover art will be designed by 10 of the UK’s most interesting artists (listed at the bottom of the jump).

It is part publicity play, part philosophical statement that music has value, despite the tendency to expect it for free.

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Life is too short to drink cheap wine– Anonymous

According to the BBC, Pernod Ricard will sell the world’s most expensive bubbly under the label Perrier-Jouet Belle Epoque. Cheers!

Cost: 1,000 euros (about $1,275 a bottle)

Wanna swig the cheap stuff? Try

$750 a bottle (1995)

$575 a bottle (1998)

$400 a bottle (1996)

$350 a bottle (1999)

$300 a bottle (1996)

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As with all things that are part of daily life, there should be luxury versions of them– Peter Aloisson

The Ancort Diamond Crypto Smartphone is the priciest cell phone in the world. Moscow’s JSC Ancort company and renowned Austrian jeweler, Peter Aloisson, who created the world’s first diamond encrusted mobile phone (way back in 1997), teamed to create the Diamond Crypto Smartphone.

The phone is made of solid platinum . The Ancort logo and navigation key are 18 carat rose gold, with 28 round cut diamonds circling the navigation key. 25 1/2 princess cut diamonds adorn the sides of the phone. There are also 8 blue diamonds.

Cost: $1.3 million

Previously, the most expensive cell phone in the world was this Limited Edition by Goldvish (Geneva): 18 carat gold, 120 carats of VSS-I grade diamonds. Cost: an ice cold mil.

Other Aloisson designed luxury cell phones:

Ancort Pavee (350,000 Euros) and Motorola Elegance (28,000 Euros)

Motorola Leopard and Motorola Roma (28,000 Euros each).

Below are Vertu’s Signature Diamond Cellphones by Nokia. White or pink diamonds, available in platinum.

Cost: $88,300.

My favorite is Boucheron for Vertu Signature Cobra, made with 439 rubies from Paris jeweler Boucheron. Only 8 Cobras exist. Cost: $310,000.

The Cobra is biting a pear diamond and curled around a round one. Notice the emerald eyes.

There is also a Signature Python ($115,000. Only 26 Pythons made– honoring Boucheron store at 26 Place Vendome). These Vertu cell phones are handmade in the UK.
Further shopping:

Peter Aloisson website.

Ancort website .

GoldVish.com.

Vertu.com.

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