If you won a Billion dollars.....

[04 commemorative]

Would you buy one million lottery tickets ?
I think I might.

[Steve_R]

No. Why would you?

[04 commemorative]

Why not ?

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

Why not ?

Buying a million different tickets for the Powerball would give you a 0.3% chance of winning. There are a whole lot better ways to throw away that much money, or better yet donate it to a good cause.

[DJ_Critterus]

If I won $1B, I'd become a ghost and disappear. You wankers would finally get rid of me (without help from mods)

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

If I won $1B, I'd become a ghost and disappear. You wankers would finally get rid of me (without help from mods)

Same here. You wouldn't see me on TV holding a huge check either.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Same here. You wouldn't see me on TV holding a huge check either.

I'm not even sure how much of my immediate family I would tell about it, either. As for the rest of the family, they may as well hold a funeral for me because I may as well be dead to them (kinda like now, anyway).

[Bruze]

I would buy or build a small air force and would bomb the hell out of the World Economic Forum HQ in Cologny, Switzerland, first making sure all the evil players were inside.

Members have said that they want to kill most of us (reduce global pop from 8 billion down to 1/2 billion) so my plan would be an act of pre-emptive self-defense.

And I would hire to lead the charge:



@Raazor

[Aerovette]

No. I wouldn't even buy ONE lottery ticket. My island would not even have a lottery. It would not have political pedophiles either.

[jw38]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Same here. You wouldn't see me on TV holding a huge check either.

Many states require the winner to be named and shown publicly.

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

If I won $1B, I'd become a ghost and disappear. You wankers would finally get rid of me (without help from mods)

You have no choice. Every criminal, con artist, relative, friend and general ghoul comes out of the woodwork fiending for that kind of moola.

[Big bob]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

Why not ?

So with all that money you would want to spend what little time on earth you might have checking tickets?

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

Would you buy one million lottery tickets ?
I think I might.

And then stand at the store counter scratching them all?

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

Would you buy one million lottery tickets ?
I think I might.

Win the initial billion by winning the lottery?

That'll never happen with me -- I've never bought one lottery ticket and no plans to ever buy one.

So much for Bruze's Air Force.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by jw38

Many states require the winner to be named and shown publicly.

FL is one of those states unless every bit of the winnings goes into a trust.

[Anjdog2003]

I'd buy the VetteBarn and clear this place out but for a very few.

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

FL is one of those states unless every bit of the winnings goes into a trust.

Which would be the smart thing to do.

I've never purchased a lottery, scratchoff, or other such ticket. My wife does. If we won a huge jackpot we'd tell nobody, lock the ticket in a safe deposit box, hire a lawyer and accountant to set everything up in a trust, and live off the trust. Claiming it the next day holding up a huge check on TV is the dumbest thing you could possibly do.

[Egnalf]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

I'd buy the VetteBarn and clear this place out but for a very few.

I know I would be one of the few, and would willingly change my screenname to flangedog to make you happy.

I would not want to win that kind of money, its more trouble than worth. I like my life the way it is and already have enough to retire when I decide I am ready. I wouldn't want the burden of idiots begging me all of the time for money, it would annoy me more than a "no politics allowed" mod on a certain forum who rhymes with flemclog.

[GTOguy]

I don't think I'd change a thing.

Would make zero difference in my lifestyle. I'm already living the dream, for me. I suspect most of you guys are too.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

I'd buy the VetteBarn and clear this place out but for a very few.

What would the two of us post about?