You're RICH!!!

[Koliedrus]

You won the lottery! Or a long-lost relative croaked and left you a bundle; pick your scenario.

What now?

Sure, you pay off your debts first. That's a given. Take care of your family and friends if you're so inclined, eveybody's situated and now it's time to splurge on yourself.

Now, dammit, I'm asking you to be SELFISH. Dig deep and be honest.

I'll start.

First, I'd help at least one person I don't know (http://www.thehypertribe.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=9415) get what they need to live better than they do. As difficult as it is to admit, I would need to help a stranger before I splurged on myself. Stuff is worthless if your heart is heavy.

Ok, so now I splurge.

A home with a view. The view I've always had in mind resides somewhere in these mountains but it could just as easily be elsewhere.
http://www.thegsresources.com/stories/images/smokeymts1.jpg

The view would best be seen from bed. On the upper floor, the circular master bedroom would have a domed skylight. The skylight would fit the shape of the circular bed, hydraulics would lift the bed into the dome. The dome would be double-paned and polarized so that light levels could be controlled by rotating the inner pane.

Helicopter pad, underground racketball court (lead lined with access to food storage and armory, of course) and a sensory deprivation tank (attached below) on the bottom floor next to the simulated river.

Be as descriptive as you care to be. I'm already anticipating sarcasm and quips so fire away.

[Cruise Director]

My friends and I have discussed this scenario.

A train.
yup, I said a train. I am going on tour of the whole country and will need something to haul all of my other crap around. A train can get me to most every region in the country.

A motorhome.
Not your everyday type of motor coach. (http://www.cowboycadillac.com/t2000bkl.jpg) This gets me from the train to smaller points of interest.

A jet.
Got to get home for the holidays.

Houses.
Just one, really. A big bastard in my home town. Their might be other, smaller condo type living arangements in parts of the country but I only want one house.

cars
It goes without saying that one of the cars on my train will be a car hauler with a fine assortment of automobiles for every occasion.

A back hoe

My buddy Dee mentioned that. Not exactly sure why he wants one but his reasoning was "sometimes you just want to dig a hole."

I guess you can't argue logic.

[RiZZ]

i want boobies

lots and lots of boobies

[SatansLeftHand]

one of these (http://www.rusarm.ru/products/af/su30mk.htm)
or maybe one of these instead (http://www.rusarm.ru/products/af/su27sk.htm)
for sure (http://secure.newegg.com/app/WishR.asp?ID=602339)
and maybe some other stuff. i'll get back to you.

[Koliedrus]

A Home-Base, a Rover, a tit collector and jet-junky. That's a good start.

I renew my invitation for those who haven't chimed in.

[Torque]

I just want a hillside porch over a beach in Mexico. With an endless supply of cold drinks, and seagulls to shoot at from the porch.

[Cruise Director]

Here ya go, Torque.

[mute]

I would first buy my own big house, i'm not going into details about the whole funishing deal. THEN I would buy a party house in my home town for everyone, and let them as they please.

Tha'ts off the top of my head, i hate these discussions. Me and my buds talk about it too much :)

[mute]

FUCK, I'd buy a huge sailing boat. Like the ones that need a crew of 120. Learn the inside and out of the boat, how everything works, become a captain and sail that boat until i die, or go under with her.

[SimpleSimon]

A shit-pot full of money?

Well, I guess I dream big enough to utilize such well.

Let's say, after taxes, $500 million. Not really that much. I'd set up a foundation, under Costa Rican law, and endow the same. The stated purpose: Investigation of semi-tropical permacuture for long term sustainability. I'd need a 999 year lease on about 100,000 acres of Costa Rican highlands. Then I'd build the necessary lab structures and equip them properly - cost would be about $80 mil initial outlay, about $2.5 mil/yr for maintenance/supply/salaries, and I'd do my best to attract post-docs from the best institutions on earth.

The wonders of applied genetics are only hinted at by what we see today.

[Torque]

Can you make me some faster flying seagulls? That's all I need to know.

[mute]

i dont know half of what you said but that sounds f'ing cool :)

[SimpleSimon]

Originally posted by Torque
Can you make me some faster flying seagulls? That's all I need to know.

Yeah, it can be done. Why do you want them?

I prefer the idea of producing organic blimps starting with medusa jelly fish.

[Barbie]

The Fifth Wheel (http://www.woodysrv.com/new/glendale/fifthwheel/2003_titanium/2003_titanium.htm)

The Truck (http://www.ford.ca/main/default.asp?language=en&section=1&sVehCategory=FordTrucks&model=F-350)

The House (http://www.houseplans.com/plan_details.asp?id=10160&st=43)

The Plan

Travel, travel, travel (RV’ing first)

Of course, before all of the above:
Secure funds for Kristine’s education
Secure funds for Kristine’s inheritance
Fully pay off all debts
Fully pay off immediate families debts
Decide of charities to give to

No one person needs (nor deserves) more money than they know what to do with.

GIVE IT ALL AWAY! Help others!

[Escape Artist]

Barbie, in my good ol' opinion....if they're that hard up, giving them more money will not solve the problem. Perhaps taking what they do have would.

As for good ol' EA's desires - one small house, one outbuilding with adequate tools, car of 2000+ vintage, comfortable furnishings, and one small room with a nice audio/video setup hooked to present computer. Anything else, gauged on a case-to-case basis without delving into the whole "yay, have money, must waste it!" mindset so common.

[mute]

If actually given the chance, I would put the money towards school and learning as much as I could about production and creating video games/ movies. 'Cause I'd make one bad ass massive-multiplayer-online-game.

[Pianomahnn]

I would purchase land.

Any land possible. It would become mine.

Mountains, forests, deserts, plains, etc. I would purchase it and then let it be. No selling later to a subdivision developer.

I would drive around in my pimped out REAL hummer, with millions of dollars in a safe just for purchasing said land. GIMME THE TITLE NOW BIOTCH.

Oh, and I would build one HELL of a log cabin. Tens of thousands of square feet.

But, yea, land would be the biggest and most important purchase with my cizash.

[Mae]

I want a space ship (NASA is getting rid of theirs). With a good looking crew.

Oort cloud exploration anyone?

[Cruise Director]

Mute brings up a good point.

After a lot of traveling, I would enroll in college again. Not so much for a degree, but to audit some great classes. Learning is fun and it would be a good time to gain in-depth knowledge because you wanted to and not because you have to.

[Barbie]

Originally posted by Escape Artist
Barbie, in my good ol' opinion....if they're that hard up, giving them more money will not solve the problem. Perhaps taking what they do have would.



Who said anything about giving to the "hard up"?

[MAC]

you practical ppl are ridiculous....

I have always had two dreams for the day I have TOO much money

Field Marshall MAC and his divisions of tanks will take everything east of the gaza strip (until we hit the pacific ocean). Then we'll build a resort town for sporting men like ourselves (where china used to be)

Or

BrewMeister MAC will build a huge brewery complex making the finest beer & liquor ever consumed on this planet......which he will trade some of for the best cigars on the planet

(that one's a little more realistic...except the "best on the planet" part)

seriously, fuck going to college if I had $500M.
I'd BUY a college.....in Mexico.....

University Del MAC

an institution dedicated to the commitment of studying the developement of progams for the understanding of comprehensively learning the role of education in education

and I'd give scholarships to hot latina chics with big boobs
and have my own biology labs, and botany labs, and chemistry labs,

and mudflap could have his own fraternity there and they'd suck so his frat brother loosers would have to clean the iguana cages.

and visiting professor simon could come and speak to the students about why the human race is about to be wiped out by giant crustacean monsters from the south

and when I wanted to get off of campus I'd dip into the athleteic fund for a new rifle and drive out to torque's place and shoot seagulls (in the cheerleader bus with all the cheerleaders)

that's not too unreasonable is it?

[Barbie]

you could do some of that without being rich MAC.

[Mudflap]

My fraternity would fukin rool.

Dean MAC's mansion would be toliet papered weekly and he'd wake up with cadavers and animal corpses in his bed.

All the hot latina chicks on scholarship would have "Mudflap is my poppy" tattooed on their person.

Pantsing pianomahnn would be a rite of initiation for all pledges.

We would win every single intramural sporting event, thanks to well placed snipers, trained by Brother Torque.

[Koliedrus]

Just out of curiousity, I wonder why topics go "South".

Don't answer that (in this thread).

By all means, continue!

[Kayla]

First I would move my mother and father out to california.
I would pay off their debts and give them somewhere comfortable to live. Give my mom the dream kitchen she's always wanted. open an antique shop for my dad.

i'd buy nathan an ipod and a 1965 impala decked out just how he wants it.
i'd travel around and visist my friends that are off at college.

i'd maybe enroll in college myself.
but most likely i'd open up a coffee shop around my area. local bands could play, poetry readings (as long as it wasn't shite).

i'd buy a small house. just big enough for me and mine. it would have to have a library...thats my only requirment.

i'd buy my mom flowers every week to keep her house pretty.
i'd buy my stepdad a new motorcycle.

i don't want much. i want everyone around me to be happy, that in turn would make me happy.
(some new clothes and some nice dinners wouldn't be bad though either :P)

[Torque]

Mac, I find it all entirely reasonable, especially the bringing the cheerleader bus to my house to shoot seagulls. Just leave Mudflap at the university. He'd pee in my hot tub.

[Mudflap]

Only to test your homemade filtration system constructed from cardboard, a fish net, and goat cheese.

[Pianomahnn]

Originally posted by Mudflap
Pantsing pianomahnn would be a rite of initiation for all pledges.

You have obviously neglected to read the rules of this fine institution.

Clothing is always optional (it is freaking HOT in Mexico), therefor I would be running around naked anyways.

:p

[SimpleSimon]

Originally posted by Pianomahnn
You have obviously neglected to read the rules of this fine institution.

Clothing is always optional (it is freaking HOT in Mexico), therefor I would be running around naked anyways.

:p

Pianomahnn, you neglected the fine print. In order to invoke the clothing optional rule, you must be between the ages of 18 and 30, within 10% of optimal body weight, within one SD of the mean for human beauty, and female.

Males must remain clothed at all times unless suffering indignities from fraternity pledges.

[Pianomahnn]

Damnit, I fit all but one of those requirements.

However, a little weekend surgery and I'm all good to go!!

[SatansLeftHand]

didn't realize you were a chick, pmahnn.

[Pianomahnn]

I'm not a woman yet. That's what the surgery is for.

[Nude_Rat_Voodoo]

OOOooo... *strokes her chin in thought*...Id buy all the property around my aunts Costa Rican resort (Here (http://www.dominical.biz/pacificedge/index.htm) ) and help her expand it, and build myself a large home RIGHT on the cliffs edge... ohhh so beautiful...

MAC, could I be your Uni's resident art nut?I could be one of thoughs sexy, hippy type chicks >D

[ms. bing]

after setting up my family, which would include the purchase of cuba for my dad, i would go to the spca in austin and see that they completely revamped the facilities. i would do that there because i worked with those people for 6 months and saw first hand how much they care and how much they try to do the best they can for the animals with what little they have, which is little, trust me.
i would pour money into political efforts to get certain things in this country straightened out, like seeing that every community has animal cruelty investigators and that teachers get paid what they're worth.
i would set up a scholarship fund for returning students with children to raise who don't qualify for anything else that's offered, then set up stringent guidelines to hold them to their chosen goal in life.
i would, of course, buy a house. it would have to be a big one because i would adopt at least one more child. probably need a housekeeper and what not too, but i would insist on raising these children myself. after all, what else have i got to do, being independently wealthy and all?
and travel. ahh, yes. i don't need my own private plane, but i'm pretty sure eva would insist on it. so i would buy her one, but she's not allowed to fly it until she's 16.
other than dad, mac and eva i would give my family jack shit because that's what they deserve. my grandparents are already set. other than that, fuck em. get a job, losers.
i would, of course, have to set up the hippie defamation league at every college in the country and root out all those patchouli wearing bastards. get a job and a grip, losers. ;)

[ms. bing]

hell, i forgot to mention the boob job. seriously. after nursing a child for any length of time some things are just never quite the same.

[Pianomahnn]

* > Fake Boobs.

[MAC]

p-mahnn we probably need some sort of athletic director guy...

but with only $500M to spend total on my dream university your dept won't have much of a budget so spend it on things like gas and neon lights for the tricked-out pimp-bus and make sure the girls volley ball team has as little a uniform as possible...to save on expenses when we play away games, I mean

did I mention my university will have an all-you-can-eat steak buffet every day at lunch and the school band would be led by Phil Anselmo from Pantera and Nikki van Lierop from Lords of Acid? (like they have anything better to do)

[jules]

What I want most can't be bought, and the only way I'll ever have the opportunity to get it is to wait. Wait several years, at least. I thought for a second that I might exchange all the money in the world for not having to wait, but then realized that I don't want that, either, because it's not possible and because it wouldn't make me happy if it were possible. Some situations cannot be changed.

I'd wait until I graduate. Then I would wander around the world climbing for a few years, living modestly and sleeping in campgrounds and cars and the like. I'd go to school for the sake of learning instead of for the sake of a career, and then, if my first desire were satisfied by the wait, I'd rid myself of most of the money and be happy with what I'd have. Otherwise, I would continue living nomadically and maybe settle down somewhere warm and wonderful.

I guess there isn't an awful lot I want that is material. I guess it's probably better that way. Being motivated by things that are not money == awesome.

[mute]

JULES RULEZZZZZZ ROXORXXXZZZ

:D

[Lady Sianna]

ahhh, to be debt free and able to give back to my family & friends. :)

and for the selfish stuff:

* buy some land on the Frio river and build a house with my man

* buy a cush apartment in San Fran

* buy a travel-worthy vehicle (Eurovan!) and Todd the old, restoresBMW he's always wanted

* spend a year on nothing but beaches

* have a fully stocked underground wine cellar in the country home and have lots of fun depleting it!

* have the free time to write and take pictures and learn how to blow glass and expand my Spanish and play guitar and sing sweet songs to my man...

and that's just the beginning!