Kordirn posted:

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I'd slip foxy some money to ban whoever I wanted.

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Kordirn posted:

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I'd tell you what I would do man. Two chicks at the same time.

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Reapist posted:

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Kordirn posted:

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I'd tell you what I would do man. Two chicks at the same time.

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I just knew you were going to say two guys. I bet you've done 5 guys though a few times.

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Kordirn posted:

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I'd slip foxy some money to ban whoever I wanted.

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Kordirn posted:

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Reapist posted:

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Kordirn posted:

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I'd tell you what I would do man. Two chicks at the same time.

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I just knew you were going to say two guys. I bet you've done 5 guys though a few times.

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You're always invited.

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Gaevren posted:

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I'd do the obvious things- college education trusts for my kids (maybe even grandkids), pay off the house/student loans/etc., and buy the property/house/etc. I've always wanted.

But that would hardly even touch that amount, even figuring after taxes. I'd set aside some in investments in order to live on the interest, and with the rest I would create or work with some kind of charitable organization. Exactly what kind, I couldn't say, but I've always been interested in helping people become self-sufficient.

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winga posted:

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Before or after taxes?

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-Accident- posted:

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invest it and make my family comfortable, give to charity, maybe take some time off and try to write a book or something.

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Ptilk posted:

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I buy millions of frozen turkeys and drop them out of helicopters on Thanksgiving day so all the people could eat delicious turkey on our most gluttonous of holidays.

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Reapist posted:

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-Accident- posted:

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invest it and make my family comfortable, give to charity, maybe take some time off and try to write a book or something.

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For charity we already know we would give to Make-a-Wish and St. Jude's.

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-Accident- posted:

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Reapist posted:

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-Accident- posted:

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invest it and make my family comfortable, give to charity, maybe take some time off and try to write a book or something.

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For charity we already know we would give to Make-a-Wish and St. Jude's.

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I wonder how much screaming there would be if I gave it all to the ACLU.

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TheUnholyGhost posted:

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It's estimated over $500 million.

Soooo, $290 million in lump sum.
Take $200 million off the top, and if you make the right investments, you should be able live off the $12 million interest per year, reinvesting that $12 million to make your money grow, and paying property taxes, etc.

With the remaining $90 million, I'd allocate $20 million to friends and family. ($1 million a piece, tops, f those bitches)

$10 million for the house I have my eye on.
$20 million for various other houses: Flagstaff, Alaska, Hawaii, London.

$30 million allocated in trusts for my boys, nephews, etc.
$5 million for the underground "End of Days" bunker in my Flagstaff home, that includes weapons, gasoline, bunker, food, water, geo-thermal heating/cooling, solar energy, backup-generators, etc.

That will leave $25 million for various employees (cooks, maids, golf instructors, personal trainers, hookers), trips to England, Scotland, Greece, Cyprus, assorted toys, misc golf trips all over the world....etc.

I haven't really thought about it much.

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Reapist posted:

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For charity we already know we would give to Make-a-Wish and St. Jude's.

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Gaevren posted:

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Reapist posted:

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For charity we already know we would give to Make-a-Wish and St. Jude's.

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St. Jude's is one of my favorites. I would definitely donate to them. I've only heard good things about Make-a-Wish but I don't know anything beyond the stuff you hear occasionally in the media.

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TheUnholyGhost posted:

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It's estimated over $500 million.

Soooo, $290 million in lump sum.
Take $200 million off the top, and if you make the right investments, you should be able live off the $12 million interest per year, reinvesting that $12 million to make your money grow, and paying property taxes, etc.

With the remaining $90 million, I'd allocate $20 million to friends and family. ($1 million a piece, tops, f those bitches)

$10 million for the house I have my eye on.
$20 million for various other houses: Flagstaff, Alaska, Hawaii, London.

$30 million allocated in trusts for my boys, nephews, etc.
$5 million for the underground "End of Days" bunker in my Flagstaff home, that includes weapons, gasoline, bunker, food, water, geo-thermal heating/cooling, solar energy, backup-generators, etc.

That will leave $25 million for various employees (cooks, maids, golf instructors, personal trainers, hookers), trips to England, Scotland, Greece, Cyprus, assorted toys, misc golf trips all over the world....etc.

I haven't really thought about it much.

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JD_HOGG posted:

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Everyone in this thread would be bankrupt in less than 24 months.

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uglydwarf posted:

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just heard on the news it's up to 540 million. biggest jackpot ever. it comes to about 10-12 million a year for 30 years after taxes. when i win it, i'll have a cake made, in the shape of a toilet. white chocolate seat and lid, lower part a nice 4 layer white cake shaped like the bowl. in the middle of where the bowl is would be a deuce shaped piece of dark mousse, with I QUIT spelled out in peanuts on it. i'd take it to work and put it on my manager's desk.

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TheUnholyGhost posted:

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uglydwarf posted:

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just heard on the news it's up to 540 million. biggest jackpot ever. it comes to about 10-12 million a year for 30 years after taxes. when i win it, i'll have a cake made, in the shape of a toilet. white chocolate seat and lid, lower part a nice 4 layer white cake shaped like the bowl. in the middle of where the bowl is would be a deuce shaped piece of dark mousse, with I QUIT spelled out in peanuts on it. i'd take it to work and put it on my manager's desk.

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If you take the annuity instead of a lump sum, you're insane.

If it's above $540 million, that's a lump sum over $320 million. If you only invest $200 million of that, leaving $120 million to play with, you'll make $12 million+ a year in interest alone.

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_Alexandra_ posted:

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Make sure my kids are taken care of, our retirement taken care of, and that my parents have everything they need in their old age, then give the rest away.

I have everything I need.

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JD_HOGG posted:

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Finally, some more realism in this here thread. Everyone needs to squander it, and let's knock all that charity BS off. You know that won't happen. You will HATE charities a week after you win the lotto because they'll be bugging the ever loving crap out of you, INCLUDING the ones you used to like.

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Dark_EternalFF posted:

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_Alexandra_ posted:

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Make sure my kids are taken care of, our retirement taken care of, and that my parents have everything they need in their old age, then give the rest away.

I have everything I need.

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I have everything I need too, but not everything I want

Like I want to hire FYC to shine my goddamn shoes with his tongue. That'll learn him.

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Reapist posted:

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My wife said she would want to invest some of it. I immediately thought of the Ponzi schemes and looked at her wik WTF and said, "479M wouldn't be enough?"

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ikkoikki posted:

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Reapist posted:

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My wife said she would want to invest some of it. I immediately thought of the Ponzi schemes and looked at her wik WTF and said, "479M wouldn't be enough?"

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that depends entirely how large your ambition is.

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ikkoikki posted:

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Well thats because you're a middle class chump who thinks on a small-scale. Give you 1M and you'd be happy.

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ikkoikki posted:

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Well thats because you're a middle class chump who thinks on a small-scale. Give you 1M and you'd be happy.

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At this point in my life? Hells yes I could be happy. More is better, but I wouldn't feel the need to try and make 1M grow. I would pay everything off and let my wife retire. I'd still spend a little, but I'd save a lot.

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ikkoikki posted:

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Like I said, middle class chump.

Come on, with billions of dollars you could turn the world into your personal toy box. You could literally buy a kingdom and live as a king.

But what do you want to do? You want to live quietly in financial security in your safe little middle class neighborhood, in your safe little middle class existence for the rest of your boring middle class life.

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Aerlinthian posted:

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Convert it into something I think is going to be around in twenty years or more and not confiscated by a government in financial ruin.

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Reapist posted:

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ikkoikki posted:

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Like I said, middle class chump.

Come on, with billions of dollars you could turn the world into your personal toy box. You could literally buy a kingdom and live as a king.

But what do you want to do? You want to live quietly in financial security in your safe little middle class neighborhood, in your safe little middle class existence for the rest of your boring middle class life.

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Close, but I wouldn't be in a middle class neighborhood. I wouldn't be ib any neighborhood. I would have a home with a lot of land near San Diego, a home in Hawaii, a home in northern Arkansas near the Norfork River. Maybe one in SC. Maybe a couple more. I would also have about a 4M boat. I would have about 50 cars and bikes. I'd have water craft. I would go fishing all over the world. But the world would not be my toy.

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TheUnholyGhost posted:

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I'd buy reaaaally big rubber boots. To wade through all ^ that BS.

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Reapist posted:

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ikkoikki posted:

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Reapist posted:

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My wife said she would want to invest some of it. I immediately thought of the Ponzi schemes and looked at her wik WTF and said, "479M wouldn't be enough?"

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that depends entirely how large your ambition is.

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500M taken over 20 years or in a lump sum is more than I could spend. I would probably take it in lump and spend a lot of millions in real estate. Probably the safest shelter I could put $ in. It would not be all in one parcel either.

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Gaevren posted:

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For charity we already know we would give to Make-a-Wish and St. Jude's.

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St. Jude's is one of my favorites. I would definitely donate to them. I've only heard good things about Make-a-Wish but I don't know anything beyond the stuff you hear occasionally in the media.

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Mangler_SC posted:

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Get your head out of the clouds Reap.

Seems like every two weeks you have the same thread: "What would you do with X amount of dollars..."

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Mangler_SC posted:

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I don't have to prove anything, it's your post history...

*sheesh*

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HeartView posted:

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I'd buy a life.

And a case of beer.

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Ptilk posted:

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WKRP aside..... ....

If you said "invest" in any way shape or form, you suck.

You already have 500 million dollars, you don't need to effing "invest", It's fricken crazy to think about making more money when you have more than you could ever spend (discounting being utterly stupid) already.

I would spend every cent I could till I died, and still leave hundreds of millions for my kid and my ex-girlfriends to fight over. I'd buy a gold plated coffin and start a religious order whose only goal was to praise my name till hell froze over...and I would still have a couple of hundred million left over that I would regret as my last breath left my body for not spending.

If you really think being "wise" with 500 million in the bank is either admirable or intelligent....I feel sorry for everyone who knows your stupid ass. Seriously, you have issues.

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-Accident- posted:

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Reapist posted:

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invest it and make my family comfortable, give to charity, maybe take some time off and try to write a book or something.

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For charity we already know we would give to Make-a-Wish and St. Jude's.

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I wonder how much screaming there would be if I gave it all to the ACLU.

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-Ducky- posted:

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If anyone from ACF wins they need to have an ACF party and fly everyone out.

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the_great_intex posted:

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I'd probably give a lot of it away to people I knew. So basically I would donate a lot to VN board people. Also give a great deal to my family and donate some to charity. I would probably only need around 5-10 million at most for spending. The rest would go to my estate

I doubt I'd stop working for long though. Probably party it up for a couple of years or something. Doing nothing but consuming sounds like a pretty pathetic and sad life to me

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Reapist posted:

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the_great_intex posted:

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I'd probably give a lot of it away to people I knew. So basically I would donate a lot to VN board people. Also give a great deal to my family and donate some to charity. I would probably only need around 5-10 million at most for spending. The rest would go to my estate

I doubt I'd stop working for long though. Probably party it up for a couple of years or something. Doing nothing but consuming sounds like a pretty pathetic and sad life to me

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Yeah, I'd hook up people I know too, but they would all have to understand it was only a once in a lifetime hookup. After it's gone it is gone. Same with my kids and grandkids except it would be in a trust so they would get different lumps because I would expect them to be stupid out of the gate but another lump would come later so they could get their heads straight.

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