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Have you ever seen an Oklahoma hooker?
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Million I would set aside a chunk for finishing school. Set aside a healthy chunk for after school (e.g house and car) an give some to my parents and then go get me a cayman or carrera s
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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You so put yourself down.
$100,000 means hookers and blow. $1,000,000 means the BEST hookers and blow $1,000,000,000 means owning the Bunny Ranch AND a major coke production plant just outside of Caracas. ![]()
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buy back the house i lived when i was 15, make a deal with the neighbour who's old, so i get his too when he moves on.
it's a house on a hill with no other neighbours and a view to kill and with land build expand the house, garage, stables, solar panels and what not then i'de disconnect and grow my own food and for hobby, i'de play with horse power... the natural kind as well as the Stuttgartian kind i could do that with 50 million, so the remaining 950 would be used on buying the land around it, and other investments to solidify my position ..
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I'd give half of it to my church.
With the other half, I'd buy property in Southern Utah, Idaho, So cal and Arizona and build some really nice personal resorts there so I'd have a place to hang out no matter what the weather looked like. |
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i would quit any church i belong too.
then i would do the same thing as sammy. buy some great land, build a compound that is basically self sufficient. the land would need to be near a great city, so i could get blow and coke.
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I'd get to work on my ultimate car collection:
Homologated Lemans road cars. Porsche GT1, Toyota GT1, Mercedes CLK-GTR.. the never made a Bentley Speed 8 road version but I would buy the molds and have one made... As RWebb said.. I would want to throw money at something that could help a lot of people, something in the technology field where there is tons of underfunded research and small projects that, if the succeeded, would have big impact on people's lives.
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start an institute to help extremely attractive women (18 to 35) who need a sugar daddy b/c of "issues" in their lives
- or did Jack Nicholson already do that? [see - all my ideas involve helping people] |
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dude. with half a billion, you can start your OWN church
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Not that much anymore? That's a billion dollars. People have problems with money management...
When my family first came to the country in 91, we survived on 450 a month. Rent was 350. ![]()
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Really, comparing 1 B to 1 M is not even close. No amount of inflation makes that even a close amount to what a million could or should be today unless it might be South American inflation. I seriously doubt many could comprehend a bill unless you're Randy and want to spend it on research, etc. Personal materialistic expenses should satiate anyone after the 1st 100 million. With 900 more to go, it would be like that movie or 2 on the subject. Shear madness and folly. You'd have to start a foundation or something to put it to use.
Or, you could spend like Howard Hughes did. Maybe Mikey Jackson. My point is spending that kind of money would put most in a very crazy place and not a very fun one at that. My other point is that I disagree that a bill is now the benchmark for all the reasons I have stated. Anyway, I'll take a 1 with any number of zeros behind it. ![]() |
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According to some sources, there are more than 10M households in the world with net worth over US$1M.
Forbes claims there are 1,125 billionaires in 2008. FWIW, Forbes also states John D. Rockefeller was the first billionaire in 1916. I also calculated what $1M in 1966, my birth year, would be worth today after inflation: $6,325,095.99 A billion is a long long way from a million, but making a million, while not common, is much more common today than several decades ago. Is $1B the new $1M? Maybe $100M or $10M is the new $1M? The latter is a more reasonable statement, but lacks the "ring" of a beeellllllion. And, when will there be the first trillionaire? That's a really big one. |
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Clone myself to sit here behind the computer and write these inane replies. I could be out golfing or shooting or fixing up and driving my Porsche instead....
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I would have to give at least some to my church to repair the vandalism brought on last night by the no on prop 8 supporters. POS pervs.
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I would start a financial institution that originates speculative debt to unworthy clients. I would become even richer. Worst case, I run the company into the ground, get a sizable severance package, and perhaps even get some bailout bucks from the guys in DC.
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Not sure when, but I tell you who! The biggest criminal on this planet.
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When I have a $B I'll pretty much do anything I damned well want.
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I think you blew well over 1,000,000,000 on your dreams though. ![]()
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