Big Game...what would you do with $325 million?

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ITs a lottery here in the states, $325 mill was the jackpot last night. I would drop dead before I claimed my prize.

― Poops McGee, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd buy myself the presidency and set up a new sexier shadow government

― Queen G, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the shadow governments decided unsexiness is the only thing that keeps me from loving it! fantastic idea

― bc, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but why, Poops?

Let's see, fund CSICOP for a million years, a massive chunk to Amnesty International, and use the remainder to buy a nice house with about 100 terrabytes worth of storage for every bit of music recorded ever, for my convenience. And fly everyone here out to it for a housewarming party with my friends.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would take the straight payout which would be what, $102 million or something like that? Anyway, I'd then pay off my debts, my wife's debts, my brother's debts and my parent's debts. (If this was more than $1 million, I'd be very surprised.) Then I'd buy another house. Then, I'd quit my job, put $50 million in either a savings account or some type of low risk fund and live off the interest (remember, 1% of $50 million = $500,000, which is way above my current standard of living, so I'd just have to be sure to put away enough money annually to cover income tax) and invest the rest according to a plan which spanned low-risk and high-risk ventures.

Sorry to be so boring. Can you tell I've thought about this a lot?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i would travel, i have a house and a husband but not enough money to go to the places i want to go to.

― anthony, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you tell I've thought about this a lot?

Not enough, clearly, if I am not accounted for.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry. I'd write Ned a check for $4.50 so he could buy himself a couple of Happy Meals.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Same things I'd do with $10 million. Not like I'd run out very quickly.

― Maria, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And for *this* I get thanks for proposing the anti-Andrew WK strike squad.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But the Happy Meals are to celebrate the succes of your grass roots campaign! Sheesh, some people...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone's got to rescue Wimbledon Football Club, and $102 million would be a start. But I'd really need more. Sorry.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am now happy.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would hire Ned as my Anit Andrew WK strike force leader. Id by a first division football team and buy out the talent needed for promotion. Start off an indie label with my fellow shma lackey Dennis as his silent partner and pay off my depts to student loans.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd purchase the rights to every MSTed film ever so that Best Brains can release every episode on DVD for ever and ever and ever.

I'd donate a huge amount of money to my college so they can install an olive bar in the cafeteria and name it after me. If not an olive bar, then a lesbian bar.

I'd buy the Empire State Building. You know, it was just sold for a measly 50 mill.

I'd release the new Kid606 record legally.

I'd play the Sims all day, all night.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought you already had that last step covered.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would buy the rights to everything ever released on Sarah and re- release the lot. In their original format. Flexis and everything. Don't ask me why.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd consult every psychiatrist in DC as to why I keep falling for men who aren't interested in me...before you know it every therapist in town would recognize my name and hang up the phone before I finish saying "Hello..."

― j.lu, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was thinking about this on the tube this morning (and realised it was a terrible, unoriginal fantasy). I would pay off my debts and those of my family and the student debts of my close friends. I'd set up a trust fund for my younger cousins to help with tuition fees etc. I would get my grandmother private medical care. I would but one of those swanky flats on Wardour Street and live blissfully on my own in the middle of Soho. I would leave my job and go freelance and be able to only take the jobs that interested me. I'd go to Vancouver for a while. I'd put 2 million aside to live off and give the rest away to various charities. I don't want to be one of the super-rich, I like my friends, I don't want to give them up to become the playgirl of the western world.

― Anna, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dude, did you do the seminar reading?" "No way, dude, Plotinus sucks. Let's go to Mikey D's for some hot girl-on-girl action."

(The two speakers are Chris Nelson and Abe Schoener.)

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd get everyone on earth a penny sweet. Then I'd buy a nightclub and book whoever I wanted every day for about 6 weeks until I died of exhaustion and/or ran out of money.

― Ronan, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd buy Denilson to entertain people at parties. And a trip on a space rocket, zoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was trying to think of a Liverpool player I'd pay to retire but it's not so easy these days. There was a time when you had harkness babb and bloody loads to choose from. Can't we bring back the good old days?

― Ronan, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Taking the opposite path Ronan, you could buy, let's say, Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Patrick Viera just to absolutely screw up the Arse.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or for a fiver you cld buy Spurs.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Touche!

― Jonnie, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(The two speakers are Chris Nelson and Abe Schoener.)

It took a while, but I eventually stopped screaming.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's my 5 steps simple plan
1. invest in a "friendly artifical intelligence" startup
2. cash-in the patents made by the A.I.
3. invest in a "safe nanotech factory" (one of the A.I.'s patents)
4. ask the A.I. to run the factory to abolish Rarety on earth once and for all (it is the friendly thing to do, isn'it?).
5. Humanity live in a communist utopia literally forevevah!
(p.s. this is the plan behind this pseudonym!)

― The Hegemon, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would arrange it in neat stacks of $50 or $100 bills, take it out into a wide-open field, and burn it all in front of a gathered crowd.

― Joe, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd burn it all and then people would say 'but that's not even original - the KLF did it' and I'd say ha ha but that makes it even better.

― N., Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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