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What would you do with the 1.4 billion?

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by bostonfan49, Jan 12, 2016.

  1. oldspartantrader

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    I would do nothing different , BUT , I would do nothing different in a bigger way
     
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  2. Beetle-Kill

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    Big chunk to Wounded Warriors or similar. Big chunk to Cancer research.
    Buy out every home in my canyon so I could walk around nekkid wherever I wanted to.
    Purchase a small get-away location, like , the entire state of Wyoming.
    Yup, that's what I'd do.
     
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    I would find every conceivable way to give money away that couldn't be touched by the government
     
  4. papadave

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    Every last dime of that money has already been taxed to death.
     
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    I'm gonna get me one of those heated toilet seats if I win!! :cool:
     
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    Try to get away from my relatives!:D
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  7. woma

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    Apparently I won't be doing anything with it...
     
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    Me and 2 coworkers won $4!
     
  9. UncleJoe

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    Hopefully you won't need a lawyer to sort it all out. :)
     
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    Dark glasses and a wig. Highly recommended. To keep the gold diggers at bay.
     
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    Contact your tax attorney right away....this could get ugly.
     
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    You can now tell everyone you had a share of the largest PowerBall jackpot ever.
     
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    That's very true!
     
  14. Dana B

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    Well not too remote right? otherwise you wouldn't have an internet connection to allow you to post on here.:mad:

    I think those of you that are assuming that a sudden huge influx of cash would necessarily ruin someones life are just as wrong as those who assume money buys happiness. It reminds me of a Bill Cosby comedy routine (are we still allowed to talk about him?) from the eighties. He talks about how he didn't understand the appeal of cocaine so he asked someone who did it what was so great about it to which the guy replies "it intensifies your personality." Cosby then says "yeah but what if you're an a$$hole?" It's the same with money. It just brings the real person a lot closer to the surface.

    If I won that kind of money I'd buy a home on the beach in New Zealand and do nothing but explore nature in NZ for the rest of my life. I'd give a big chunk of it to children's charities as someone mentioned earlier. Although I'm kind of like Fox Mulder in that I'm always suspicious of everyone and everything so I probbaly wouldn't be able to enjoy of it any way as every day all I'd think about was that some scumbag would discover I was rolling in it, kidnap one of my kids and hold them for ransom.

    ooh look at that...I manged to mention Bill Cosby and Fox Mulder int he same post! I'm pretty damm proud of myself!:D
     
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  15. lukem

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    With that kind of paper you could have your own satellite for Internet service parked over your estate in Turkmenistan.
     
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  16. Dana B

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    Yeah I guess you could have your own ISP but.........an estate in Turkmenistan?
     
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    If you want to go somewhere and not be found...
     
  18. Dana B

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    Yeah, the climate in Turkmenistan is probable a little more hospitable than that of Antarctica.
     
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