What if you won $150K
 

Found this on boston.com looking for fun things to do this weekend.

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I made it to 31 seconds. Can anyone beat that?
Jim

Can't watch it........Ellen has always rubbed me the wrong way. Not even a little funny in my book.

[QUOTE=on2wheels52;8449713]I made it to 31 seconds. Can anyone beat that?
Jim[/QUOTE

55 seconds!.....but I had the sound on mute!

Ellen was pretty darn funny (to me) when she was doing standup... problem is she got a talk show (good business move for her, see what Opera did with it) became a celebrity and has to make boring conversation with famous people interspersed with interviewing cute kids and giving stuff away.

1:20! Beat that!
Pretty cool what she did.

(Ellen aside :rolleyes:)

I love how some people do things like this. It gives me hope.

Thank you Peter. I was amazed, seriously, completely bowled over by the teacher. She's 1 in a million, that's for sure.

A Unicorn, according to that guy with the hot/crazy chart...

I guess I should have posted how some ill-tempered, vapid, self-aggrandizing movie star elite did something stupid, people love that sh it. Would go on for pages and pages.

Heck I can't get it to load.

That's seriously cool. I forwarded to my brother and his wife (they're both middle school teachers at a charter school in MA - not the same one, but still...)

Shameful how much money we throw at education only to have so little of it land with the teachers and students. I Really hope those kids get some benefit from those donations. They deserve the chance to do well.

Yeah it's a feel-good piece but so what? Those are good every once in a while to remind us that the world doesn't COMPLETELY suck.

Love or hate Ellen all you want but this has really nothing to do with her.
A few people do something good for others, Ellen brings it to a bigger audience and all the discussion is about how we don't like Ellen.
We need to get some focus here.

She's very, very sweet and generous and seems to be a great person. I suspect she's got a pretty high crazy quotient going on.

Amazing person. It's heartwarming to see/hear this sort of thing. I'm certainly not as generous as she is. I'd love to be extraordinarily wealthy and able to help people, but I wonder when I would feel wealthy enough.

I think it's awesome how someone with fame and fortune regularly uses it to help other people. I have no desire to be rich/famous, but would spend my spare time doing this sort of thing, given the chance.

Can you just tell me so I don't have to watch the video?

I'd enter the lottery and hope to get one of the 60 versions of this:

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I've often though if I won the lottery, I would do things to help people who didn't expect help, I could pick out various members of the community that try to do good, and reward them with physical and financial help. I think that would be so uplifting to my soul to give away what I don't need and to help people who are down on their luck, or having a major health concern, or even a single parent that is struggling.

Sure I would buy myself some nice things, and secure my family's future, but I would set aside probably a vast majority to help others.

I don't agree with Ellen's lifestyle, but her heart is in the right place.

Cool chicks. Both of em.

I would not have to work for 6 months

This kind of thing makes me smile. I wish Bill Gates, Oprah, George Lucas, Warren Buffet or someone like that would hire me to help distribute their excess funds to the needy, various charities, etc.

Love it. Really like Elen. Great comic and caring about others. Watched the whole video BTW.

Nice!
I bet she is one of those teachers that makes a difference in a lot of kids lives.

That teacher, and the ones they talked about who spend their own money for school supplies are awesome.

Having said that, call me a cynic. Ellen said Target has "spent" a billion dollars on education, but Target apparently spends this money by buying gift cards from itself. I wonder, after that school got $150k donated to it by the teacher, why did Target give these kids even more stuff? Aren't there other schools out there who have gotten nothing that could use a little love?

Thanks for posting the video.

I watched the whole thing. Inspiring. I'd love to have the opportunity to be in the same
position.

I have been detailing Porsches since the early '90s and had the opportunity to detail a black '95 993 Tip Coupe for a client in 1997. The car was previously owned by Ellen.

Yes, true story.

Interesting to see how many talented entrepreneurs own Porsche cars.

Cooper.

I enjoyed watching the video. I think its great to help that school system as Ellen did. I wish there would be more ways to help each and every school around the country in the same manner. As far as if I won $150k - Unfortunately $150k doesn't go that far anymore. I would secure my daughters future for college, then donate the rest.

$150k after taxes would be barely $100k.

I'd pay off a lot of bills and use it to fund my upcoming move. Anything left over would get donated or put into kids' education funds.

It's people like this teacher that make our country great and kudos to Ellen for showcasing her and others. Shows like this have to inspire others to make a difference in other people's lives and not just slog through their own.

Very cool....thanks for sharing.

I made it to 44 seconds before I hit pause and didn't go back. Sorry.

From the other responses from people who have made it all the way through, she seems like she might be a nice person, but I just couldn't watch her much beyond those 44 seconds. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/chix.gif

Still not interested in the video.

If I won $150,000, I would probably give it away. Must be my ingrained American Entitlement Mentality.