what would you do if you won a $200M lotto?

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― Aaron A., Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

get drunk

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 14 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

i seriously haven't thought this through before, but a likely scenario - would quit my job, pay off debts and buy presents for friends + family, buy/renovate a nice place to live - possibly in another city, invest as necessary to live in future, wedding (buy replacement groom if necessary), world wide wine and music store tour, donate to charity (esp. cancer research and heart disease) massively expand home inventory of jewellery and art supplies and create the perfect studio space to work for myself, get a cat or have a kid, and i would probably spend the remainder on trying to look good while doing it.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

disappear

― ai lien (kold_krush), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

die from shock or ruin my life.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Give Andrew enough cash for me not to get Poxy fucking Fuled ever agin.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Get a giant bowl of cocaine and pull a Scarface.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Nothing ever again, I would buy a big house and take it easy.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

kim would do exactly what i would do

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 14 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Stop and rethink things.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 14 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

would replace all my cd-recordables with the real cd's!

wait I still have 199.9 million left then.. hmm.

― Ludo (Ludo), Sunday, 14 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Fuck me. 200 million dollars? Is that even possible? But if I would, I'd probably give half to my parents, so they'd stop pestering me with work. ;-) I'd buy a big house, probably... Actually I don't know if I'd stop working. I don't want to get bored. As fantastic as it seems, a life of no work seems very boring. You would fill your life with constant travel and purchases which seems to be alienating, I think I'd lose contact with friends/*real* life that way. But I'd definitely pay off the house (or buy a new one).

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Sunday, 14 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

1. Debt elimination
2. House remodeling, new car
3. Seed money for a $300K annuity
4. The rest goes into creating a foundation for charitable giving and general opposition to neocons, Xtian zealots, Texas bug-men, etc.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/

Try not to kill myself. Try not to tell anyone else.

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Dead within 3 months probably. Barring that I'd do the 'look at me I have all this money and I drive an old pick-up truck' thing. Houses and boats and cars really do ruin your life if you're not exceptionally good at delegating work & worry. I would definitely take a culinary world tour, see music, visit friends (on their days off lol!) but beyond that (and philanthropy) I'm not sure.

― Aaron A., Sunday, 14 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Go swimming every day.

― M. White (Miguelito), Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

1. My own short course pool.
2. Elaborate practical jokes.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Buy a deserted house that was so big, it would take months to familiarize myself with all the rooms and I'd always have a new adventure, a new wing to explore/restore. Maybe some forgotten cornmeal baron built himself a castle in BFE Nebraska and it's sitting derelict with original fireplaces, just waiting for me....

NB: I am not interested in Long Island-style McMansions, just houses built by crazy people in the middle of nowhere & added on to 47 times.

― Laurel, Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I would also finally buy the Blue Bell garment factory building in Tupelo, which I've been fantasizing about for 20 years.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

1. have a daily $500 competition for people to make the biggest fool out of him/herself
2. buy a big house with a bowling lane in it
3. get my family things.

that's it

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 14 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

1. not tell anyone

2. buy mad gear and property, but at a sensible steady rate of escalating ballerness in keeping with my life trajectory as is

3. get a bunch of really talkative vancouver film industry people hooked on meth and make my own documentary on their lives thereafter

4. give 100 mil to my dad and watch him turn it into 300 mil in a year, repeat

5. bulletproof/platinumize my body

6. assassinate george strombolopolous and michael buble

7. hit vegas with dave q and buy my way out of hell afterwards

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 14 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd have tons of fun with philanthropy. Donate a million bucks to every program at my high school alma mater except for the sports programs. Fund all the non-religious day/night shelters out the ass and tell the ones requiring church attendance and prayer to kiss my ass.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 14 August 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

- tell no one (this is really important)
- buy a large, but modest, family home in the suburb I live in now
- build me a full 24 track digital recording studio fully equipped.
- hire said studio out
- become like a SAW type producer and make horrible girlypop chart hits (ok maybe not)
- finance my boi starting his own software company, so he can hire a small team and finally create and release the game(s) he's working on

Sit back and just chill out. Holiday away from time to time. Maybe invest in some properties.

I'd give a lot of the rest to charities or whatever I think. I wouldnt want it - I'd do Bad Things.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

diamond spinners

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 15 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Lots of charities. Foundations, etc.

I'd follow Rotten's rules. I'd move to the south of France, probably.

Lots and lots and lots of travel. Sailboats would be involved.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 15 August 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

I'd move to the south of France, probably.

Comme s'il y avait jamais aucun doute...

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 15 August 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Hey M. White, are you Michael White from The West3nder who just emailed me?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 15 August 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

Nope. I once checked into a hotel in an emergency with a friend of my sister's and the desk cler was all, "'Michael White'! Yeah sure buddy. Why not John Smith?" I wish I had decked him as I felt like doing...

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 15 August 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 15 August 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

TS: Lump Sum v. Twenty-Six Annual Payments

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 15 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Tell no one is part of a good, complete answer.

I've thought about this because I hate my fucking job so much... #1 would be to walk out on my job for 'no apparent reason'. #2 - set up self for life - moderate living, allowing for frequent travel. #3 - give a bit of it to family to pay of current debt/mortgages. #4 - Since the lotto is supposed to benefit the schools, set up a nonprofit trust that A)assists schools financially and B)provides training for adults who were failed by the school system. Giving out money would be my job!

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

<office_space>two girls at once</office_space>

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Commission Ushida Finlay architects to build me a building in Daikanyama, Tokyo.

Set up an art school on the premises.

Have major facial surgery and buy an ape called Bubbles.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

1st of all I’d read up on Prenuptial Agreements.

Then not in this order take friends on holiday, pay off mortgages for friends and family, get nice house on beach, get pro tools, purchase many guitars & basses & 1 drum kit, have lots of holidays, get healthy, eat the finest foods in the finest countries, open a little animal sanctuary, and finally, smile a hell of a lot more than I do now.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 15 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Buy some monstrous old retired underground nuclear missile base, convert into apocalypse-survival-prepared hippietopia, prepare for end times.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, no, I would buy Ryugyong hotel and build a gigantic burning eye on top of it, destroy the sun, and train hundreds of thousands of monkeys to fly tiny armed aircraft over all of upper-Middle Earth to police my new worldwide empire.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Nick, do both just in case the worldwide domination fails, then you’ll have somewhere to hide from the angry mob.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

haha, hell yeah, prepare for the end times I HATH WROUGHT

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Pay off debts, buy a house (or possibly two, one in town and one in the country), ask friends and family what they would like and pay for that if they let me, open a savings account and then give the rest to cancer charities.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

the first thing that came into my head (besides paying for college) was "dude! then i could get an unpaid internship anywhere next summer, and not have to actually worry about making money!" then i'd go on a vacation to greece for a couple weeks. then i'd start thinking about taking care of family and charities and intelligent investments and such, since i'm sure i would only have made a dent of a few thousand.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

i would make a summer blockbuster movie.

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Buy the property that houses my favorite nightclub (if they don't already own it) and rent it to them at a nominal rate of $1/year.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

i would like a house archel and yes i would let you pay for it!!!! :D

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I'd buy a hot beat: "Nas Pays Neptunes $2million For Amazing Beat"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I'D JERK OFF ON IT.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

none of you deserve this money. if you win it give it to me. 200 MILLION and you want to live conservatively?? youre all crazy. id buy a mansion in beverly hills (even though i hate LA), install a bitchin playboy mansion type pool if there isnt one already there, buy 15 dogs (all great danes), build a half pipe and hire bob burnquist to skate on it for 9 months of the year, buy all the vintage muscle cars i can get my hands on, buy a house in aspen, build some stables big enough to house the 10 horses im also buying. hell, i might even buy buttermilk mtn while im there. then theres the small things like dusting myself with cocaine rather than baby powder when i get out of the shower etc etc

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 15 August 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I'd get one of those ball pits like at Chuck E Cheese (where kids swim in the ocean of unclean plastic), fill it with crisp new dollar pills and just writhe around in it for a few hours. Scrooge McDuck writ tiny.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 15 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I did this once with $4800 in twenties. Not in a pit — just threw 'em down on the floor and rolled in 'em.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 15 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

"build a half pipe"

Dude, I'd buy a COMPLETE pipe and smoke crack all day. Actually, no, I wouldn't.

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Monday, 15 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Fund progressive, non-DLC politicians.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

"dollar pills"!

cheap

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

in honor of the currently absent adam(hexenductor):
1. Buy a huge yacht.
2. Fill it with heroin.
3. Invite a couple friends on a cruise.
4. Die very soon.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

thats beautiful

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

How great would that be? I would be able to get help for a couple of my nieces and one of my sons. Id'd definately get "The Cure for my Mom's arthritis. I would give a great portion away to charities such as people who have suffered in floods and lost everything, and those who have no food. I would do what I could in Africa,Meds & shots against disease. I would get up a large groups of people to help give the elderly essencials such as hearing aids and teeth, without costs to them. I would donate a lot to food banks across thhe country. I would buy a nice house/pool. A car and driver would also be welcomed.

― Judith Deslongchamps (Judith), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't think rotten.com's advice to maintain your anonymity is at all feasible -- I know that some (most? all?) American lotteries require winners to take part in the publicity machine in some way or another. From the Pennsylvania Lottery FAQ:

Can I remain anonymous if I win the jackpot?

In Pennsylvania, lottery winner information is public domain, therefore it is public information. We publicize the jackpot winner's name, city of residence, county of residence, game won, date won and the amount of the prize.

From the New Jersey Mega Millions Rules:

Winner(s) of either the Jackpot Prize or a prize of $250,000 shall be required, at the discretion of the Lottery, to participate in a press conference. A press conference is an interview with television, radio and/or newspaper reporters, and photographers. The press conference will be scheduled by the Lottery.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

That said, the list of tragic lottery winners is funny as all hell.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

don't take the lump sum.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I am wary of lumps in general.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

If you set up the winning ticket as a trust, couldn't you have the lawyer for the trust go out to speak at your press conference (and issue a long list of 'no comments')?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I would bet on "no." From the New York State Lottery FAQ:

Public trust is the cornerstone of New York Lottery. Public disclosure of winner information is fundamental to the Lottery’s integrity and credibility. As a State government agency, the Lottery has a public responsibility to demonstrate that prizes are being awarded to each and every player who can demonstrate that they are the rightful owner(s) of a winning New York Lottery ticket. To accomplish this, the New York Lottery requires winners, including those $1 million or more, to sign a claim form, authorizing the Lottery to use the winner's name and photo as a means of demonstrating to the public that a prize has been won and awarded for that particular Lottery game.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

In other words, the lottery requires names and faces to be attached to prizes to show the tranparency of the process -- that actual people win this thing and it isn't some government sham -- and having a lawyer speak for you would probably works against that transparency.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Bummer. I'd get a fake mustache and wacky toupee then.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I would ponder. But comfortably.

(This would involve having a fully paid-for cozy flat or townhouse each in Melbourne, Dunedin, LA, Reykjavik, London, St. Petersburg and likely a few other locations. I'd split the books between them all for variety and finally rip all the music down to a few portable hard drives. I would rotate as whim took me and made sure at least half the money was settled in other investments after consultation with my parents' money manager -- he knows his stuff.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Set up lsd labs in the USA and Europe to produce product of the highest quality and turn on the world...

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

I would fritter away a staggering amount taking out ads in papers aimed at political targets and maybe just people I didn't like.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Obviously, I wouldn't win. Because I don't believe in playing them. But on the off chance that I had, inspired by this thread:

Buses......Maps.....Lists of Questions.....You gotta love this ILX! Pls help me with dissertation

I would buy my own bus company or railway. And not bother up putting up routes or schedules. The train or bus would just turn up, whenever. And the driver would just sort of ask "hrmm, where do you fancy going? Oh no, I don't fancy driving there, let's go to the seaside instead!"

(Could I actually buy a railroad for £100M these days? What *does* it cost to Get One Railway?)

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I would also say all the crazee 'transgressive' shit I could think of at the press conference about overthrowing the corporate state, enough to ensure the NY Post would villify me for a week.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

I would buy my own bus company or railway.

someone has been playing too much monopoly

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

i would crush my enemies, drive them before you (as in you guys, ilx), and hear the lamentation of the women.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I'd pay off my debts, set up trust funds for my son and each of my nieces and nephews, buy my mom and my sister houses, give some to my best friends, set it up so the rest will be distributed, then do a boatload of coke.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

btw to start a bus company, all you need is a bus, and to register your services 6 weeks before running with the traffic commissioners. i guess that spikes yr plan tho kate, seeeing as the TCs would get pissed off with you always breaking yr schedule and heap a bunch of fines on you. you could just buy a routemaster and then stop at stops, but you probably couldnt let anyone pay. also you might get fined for being in the bus lane, depends what type it is.

or you could just spend 200$ mill on everyone of these you could lay yr hands on. holy shit!!!!

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Argh. It just so isn't fair. Last year when I was unemployed, I could not scrape together the £1000 to buy a routemaster. Now I've got £1000 sitting in my bank account just WAITING to buy a routemaster, they're going for £9000 on eBay.

Ah, well, they'll decommission the 159s soon. I will wait and get one of those. Though WHERE will I park it? Driveway's a bit crowded with my housemate's BT van and all.

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Powerball is up to 340 million in the US. Any other ideas of what you'd do with it?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

and what are the arguments for taking the annuity? I always thought that taking the lump sum was the way to go because then you could invest it. Is this not wise?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

i would get myself a nice place to live, and then... mutual funds ahoy.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd take the lump on any kind of big number. If we've got to have a GOP White House and Congress, I might as well take advantage of their friendly tax laws, right? A few years down the road, I might be paying a higher percentage, etc.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Winning a big lottery could have major downsides in a way. If you've spent your entire life in a certain class, making friends in that class, identifying with it - and then suddenly you're a millionaire, I imagine there would be some severe identity issues in play. If you're a starving artist, how much motivation do you then have to engage in the usual gallery route (I guess that if you were at heart an artist, you'd be more democratic, not worrying about selling for high prices?)

I'd pay off my extended family to leave me the hell alone, I think. $1mln apiece to my aunts/uncles/cousins, but they can never ask again.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

the only fancy millionare thing i could ever think of wanting, other than a nice house to live in with the family (or maybe a compound with a nice house and a couple of guest houses for when the parents get to the doddering stage) would be an indoor swimming-pool! How great would that be? It really is the only extravagant thing I can think of. i don't care about cars or fancy vacations or any of that or clothes or jewels. i really only care about books and records in the material world, and you don't need to be a zillionare to buy those. but taking a dip in the middle of winter...mmm, that would be heaven to me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

i guess i think of it cuz i like to swim but i don't like going to the beach that much cuz i burn too easily. how much do you think a nice indoor pool would run you?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Are we talking 'pool plus jacuzzi filled with champagne' or 'small swimming pool' or 'Olympic diving arena'?

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

So I started a company-wide pool today so if we win on Wednesday I'll be sharing the money evenly with 25 coworkers, some of home I don't know at all.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

previous post: C/D?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I'd get hella stoned.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

"Are we talking 'pool plus jacuzzi filled with champagne' or 'small swimming pool' or 'Olympic diving arena'?"

i guess it doesn't have to be olympic-sized. just a good-sized pool with a diving board and all that. maria would have to have the deluxe jacuzzi and hot tub. she is all about that stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

that should read "some of *whom* I don't know at all." I don't know where "home" came from...

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

have a nap

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

i'd get a pool table. oh, and a place to put it.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

I'd get a very nice upper-middle class house somewhere in the near suburbs, purchase a 2001 Buick Park Avenue so I can finally have the vehicle of my childhood dreams, purchase another vehicle for my mother (but with hand controls so she can drive it), quit this job to focus on this second bachelor's and then get my master's in this field, purchase some beautiful furniture, have my house professionally decorated and landscaped, send my mom on a cruise with a couple of really close relatives of ours (an aunt & uncle on my father's side), go visit my best overall friend in Toronto, switch parishes until I find one that actually suits me (and then give some money to them), start up a handsome investment portfolio, do a lot of traveling, hire a personal trainer, get me some nice (but not designer label) clothes, give Mom and me a bit of mad money so we could go on a shopping spree, and then probably be stuck with about 75% of my winnings still with me, which I would stick into a joint checking/savings account with the bank that my mom banks at, because they seem a heck of a lot better than the bank *I* bank at. Oh, and I'd find Mom a gentleman friend so she can go off with him to do traveling and other activities and I can do my own thing while they're doing that.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I'd never work again, though. Oh, and I'd automatically draw up legal contracts stating that certain relatives of mine could never lay a finger on a single penny of the winnings, because I know how certain members of my family are and I know how they'd try to bilk me out of a large chunk of the winnings. I might end up having to move somewhere else, but if that's so, I'd rather be further away from the relatives I *do* trust than live closer by but always have to watch my back. I'd definitely, for example, remember which relatives have been good with paying back Mom and/or me for loans we've made and which relatives have never been good with paying anything back.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

i'd retire in a third world country. there's nothing like being rich where everyone else is poor. the conversion rate and the fact that there are so many poor ppl will make you even richer. you could probably buy slaves.

― gang grape (Adrian Langston), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm beginning to warm to Chris V's idea. YOU DO IT BECAUSE YOU CAN.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

do a howard hughes (the paranoid recluse version, not the big plane builder version)

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I'd buy something that wasn't on sale or reduced in price.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

have every one of you killed

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

with kindness

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

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― crashland on mystery friggin island, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Jims otm I think I'd prolly do a Howard Hughes too. Despite what I said above.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd prefer the early Howard Hughes route - Ava Gardner, Kate Hepburn, big planes, etc.

The scary recluse years don't seem to be as much fun.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

I'd buy ILX and ban anyone who disagreed with me.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Youd be pretty bored being here on yr own, then ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

I'd make my own rap album and get Mannie Fresh and Dizzee to produce it.

― Munki (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Pay Adam to make aforementioned album.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

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