All aboard the Hypo train!

[Tarfang_Trubasher]

Lots of good ideas here...

Here's mine in a nutshell...

Debt blanking for myself, my family, and friends.

Purchase sustainable land, preferably with a natural water supply (spring fed or similar), build a house/ranch/farm in multiple world locations.

Learn to fly, buy a plane...

Invest in a couple of smaller businesses (including my own) ventures. One would be a record company as I've always wished to have that as my profession. I'm sick of all these talented people somehow not getting deals! I've heard a few good ideas from close acquaintances that I wish I had the money to support now.

I don't know about "big business" as even a billion dollars doesn't go as far as it should these days. It'd be awesome to be able to wisely invest into a new transportation/energy industry centered around alternative fuel/energy sourcing.

Happy Dreaming! May we all be blessed by even a piece of a billion bucks!

-TF

[Ddrak]

I just wouldn't tell Layani or she'd have it spent before noon.

Dd

[Torakus]

I would buy Mukik's brothel after I won the farting contest, then host the first annual Aussi slut vs. Thai Boy pole dance and naked cat walk competition. The farting contest runner up would be paid well to fire flaming ping pong balls from his/her ass.

I would buy a small bio/chem weapons lab somewhere in the old Soviet Union, brew up some nasty shit. I would then hold a poll to find out who the world really want to see wiped out, and then do it (unless they say America, then I will wipe out the nation that voted most for America).

If I had like 100 dollars left I would buy the presidency of Venezuela. I would put all of my opponents to death and then sign an executive order making the new Ms. Universe my sex slave.

[Select]

Agents will take you out.

[Garrdor]

My answer to my own question, just because I love self-fallatio :-p

Here's my true response:

1. I'd first dump a bunch of money into getting my dad well again (he's all jacked up, cancer + nerve damage/esophogial bypass = bad).
2. I'd give a few million to mom, of course. Garrdor loves his mommy.

Now that I got that pussy shit out of the way:

3. I'd give into my inner-scumbag, and fly out to amsterdam and get a bunch of high-class european hooker tang. While I was there, I'd construct and smoke the biggest joint in the world.
4. I'd fund a presidential assassination (or attempt).
5. I'd drink the worlds finest wine out of a skull brought to me from a 3rd world country.
6. I'd have Ann Coulter kidnapped, in a leather gimp suit with a leash - and have her as my 'get-the beer-out-of-the-fridge' slave in my multi-million dollar mansion, that happens to sit on a tropical island I bought.
7. Try to cushion my intense amount of spending by manufacturing and selling weapons to different political groups I'm in favor of.

Thats all I can think of ATM.

[Harlowe]

Garr the amusing thing is - other than the hooker part, #3 had crossed my mind.

[Fobbon Lazyfoot]

I'd invest half of it.

The other half will probably go to a very skanky yet very smart and very attractive woman in divorce proceedings.

[Riggen]

1. A really nice place to live.
2. A really nice alternate place to live.
3. A really nice means of conveyance between said places to live.
4. Another really nice means of conveyance between said places to live and everywhere else.
5. Various luxuries...e.g. a few really nice computers, a really nice home theater system, really nice bath amenities, etc.
6. Nifty (and really nice) technologies to reduce dependence on infrastructure...solar power, a wind turbine, a well with a really nice purification system, etc.
7. New Zealand. Australia. The Grand Canyon. Ireland. Great Britain. France. Italy. Hawaii. Pretty much anyplace that could reasonably be described as "really nice" and not hostile in large part to Americans.
8. A really nice standard of medical care.
9. A really nice continuing education. Including both arts and sciences. I'd like to be able to understand quantum physics in detail. I'd like to learn to play a musical instrument. Maybe several. Well.
10. Lots more stuff that's really nice.
11. A really nice financial management strategy.
12. Pretty much all of the above for my family. Somewhat less than all of the above, but still a goodly part of it, for my friends.

I expect that after a few years of indulgence and "worldliness" that I'd turn to some form of business, philanthropy, etc. I doubt that I would directly pour money into charities or lame funds. Instead I think I'd work on building something myself. Something that could ultimately be self-sustaining with the goal of bettering the world in a real and non-ridiculous fashion. I certainly couldn't specifically describe what I have in mind in this limited space because I would want broader perspective and more time to think on it before committing. But whatever it would become, it wouldn't be done out of some misguided sense that "this is what I ought to be doing" but rather because it was something personally fulfilling to me that needed doing. And it would be really nice.

[Arathena]

9. A really nice continuing education. Including both arts and sciences. I'd like to be able to understand quantum physics in detail. I'd like to learn to play a musical instrument. Maybe several. Well.

Once you understand it, please publish. Because even Feynman didn't fully understand it in detail, and he's the closest we've ever been, I think.

[Riggen]

Perhaps I should phrase it "as much as can be understood at this time."

[Ckador]

I'd take Arkaron to the movies.

[Trollbait]

I would buy an Island.

Set up my own country. I think I will establish a monarchy.

Invite like minded folks to immigrate there.

Develop a rum distillery and become a rum tycoon.

Use said rum funds to build a navy.

Attack and seize nearby islands.

Establish a harem of 1000 women.

Use my newly established harem to create a live cam porn site.

Blackmail the U.S. politicians who visit the site.

Use the newly gained political influence to seize Florida.

Eject the retards who live there.

Build a border fence so dumb ass 'murkans can't illegally cross my border and I would guard it with Blackwater thugs.

Be overthrown in a coup.

[Harlowe]

Damn....I think you win, Jecks. =)

[Garrdor]

Oh, and I forgot one.

Urinating on the West Wall in a bullet-proof suit

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

I really, all in all, dont have a lot of debt, neither do my parents, however my sister is up to her eyeballs in debts, so i'll pay them all off. Set up trust funds and accounts for my kids. I'd like to buy the land i want to buy and build the house i want to have. Set up fences and pastures and get a couple of high dollar horses (not even for breeding, but to have around, i've recently started riding again and i'd like to have a pony or 2... nothing greedy , i mean i'm one person i don't need 40 horses). I'd like to build a stable and teach riding lessons to little kids, or equine instruction for those foolish enough to not ride their horses before they buy them. I'm so tired of watching the news and seeing honest, hard working people losing their houses. If i had that kind of money i'd like to simply pay off the loans on the houses for some random people. I like Tax's idea of carrying around some envelopes. Not enough people are rewarded for kindness or geerosity even when it seems to be in small amounts. It's part of the reson no one opens a door anymore, or smiles and says thank you.

I want my kids to not have to want for anything, but to still have to work for it.

Then we can travel extensively, with or without the kids. I'd also like to learn how to fly, and I'd like a summer home in Venice (or it is a winter home.. either way).

Money set aside to live on, and then i dont want the rest. In reality i don't need millions of dollars. About 2 million would set me for life, should i choose to do things the right way (figure you'd want to buy a house outright and that kind of thing )

[Klast Brell]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyo ... 4262.story
Doorman lottery winner gets fired

Randazzo made $40,000 a year as a doorman. He began taking in another $65,000 every three months after hitting the jackpot on May 2. According to published reports, his attendance record was spotty after he won the lottery.

For all the people who say they they would keep their job.

[Ddrak]

I wouldn't pay anyone's debts off for them - especially if they were self-inflicted. As for keeping my job, I probably enjoy my job more than a doorman enjoys his...

Dd

[Alluveal]

I'd start a movie studio and put all you clowns in charge. Garrdor would be in charge of casting, that's for sure.

[Rsak]

I would definitely keep my job right away because the stability would be a good thing as you adjust to the higher income. I don't doubt that after a few years I might decide it is not worth it or change careers, but I would have to do something to fill the time.

[Taxious]

I love my job, but there is no way in hell that I'd keep it if I won the lottery.