What would you do with $100 billion?

[jonks]

Ah, bring back Firefly! I could finance indefinite seasons regardless of ratings

the real question isn't whether to do 2 chicks, it's which 2?

 

[Throckmorton]

I'd pay all the militias and insurgents in Iraq to live on a peaceful agrarian commune.

 

[Josh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95fNgx8aCS8

That's what.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I'd do the same thing everyone else would; buy shit.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
I'd pay all the militias and insurgents in Iraq to live on a peaceful agrarian commune.

Money is worthless to them.. If you gave both sides $50bn, they fight to control $100bn.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Baked
Start a massive army and pillage my weak neighboring islands.

Playing a little too much Ikariam lately, haven't you?

I think that I would buy myself my own private island nation, though... There aren't many kings left, and I wanna be one!

I'd also want to buy News Corp, and make them produce a bunch of "24" spinoff shows to keep me entertained.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I'd do the same thing everyone else would; buy shit.

like, out of peoples toilets? i imagine it would be easier to just buy a sewage processing plant and haul the shit to your house in large trucks.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: TallBill
I'd buy 51% of Time Warner and 51% of CBS and run them both into the ground. That would leave $68 billion.

Got enough money for EA?

and get fox too

Time Warner owns Fox, I'll wreck EA though while I'm at it.

News Corp owns Fox. Time Warner owns Communist News Network.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I'd do the same thing everyone else would; buy shit.

like, out of peoples toilets? i imagine it would be easier to just buy a sewage processing plant and haul the shit to your house in large trucks.

Actually, there's a lot of money to be had in feces. It's one of those substances that people will pay good money to not have to deal with themselves. My uncle had a million dollar business pumping sewage on the Oregon coast.

As for my response, yes, that is exactly what I meant.

 

[Canai]

Buy an island, grow lots of weed, make lots of biofuel, build a small lab and let people come do stem cell research without the gov't looking over their shoulders.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
Ah, bring back Firefly! I could finance indefinite seasons regardless of ratings

the real question isn't whether to do 2 chicks, it's which 2?

I'd take any two of the pro female dancers from dancing with the stars. as long as one is Julianne.

And I second Firefly. I'd also buy the NHL and get rid of every team south of St Louis and move one to Portland and the rest to Canada. I'd also get rid of shootouts.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: sirjonk

the real question isn't whether to do 2 chicks, it's which 2?

I'd take any two of the pro female dancers from dancing with the stars. as long as one is Julianne.

I'm sorry, the correct answer is: All of them.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Buy personal island, have new hookers sent out every week.

wtf are you using hookers for when you're worth $100 B? you could have virgins from kansas flown out every week for that kinda money. all the $ in the world won't keep your dick from falling off

Really? Tell Magic Johnson that because not only did his dick not fall off but he's still alive.

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Buy personal island, have new hookers sent out every week.

wtf are you using hookers for when you're worth $100 B? you could have virgins from kansas flown out every week for that kinda money. all the $ in the world won't keep your dick from falling off

Really? Tell Magic Johnson that because not only did his dick not fall off but he's still alive.

And in supreme physical shape.

 

[oogabooga]

I think I'd buy the San Fransisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, pump money into both teams and try to get a decade of just "Battle of the Bay".

Seriously though - I'd see how much i could get out of every dollar in terms of bettering the world.

 

[MotionMan]

I would take a CPA-determined amount and put it away for me and my immediate family to live comfortably for life, including college and age trusts, etc. for my kids (and I would probably have two more kids ). (BTW, just to be safe, I would put away double whatever that amount is).

Then I would help out my extended family with their debt, etc., and probably buy them all new cars. I would set up funds for all my nieces and nephews for college and age trusts, etc.

Then I would buy as big of a chunk of the San Francisco 49ers as I could and keep a pot of money for salaries and bonuses (and maybe build my own damn stadium!!!).

After that, I would probably have well over $95 billion left (conservatively and rounded down).

I would have an absolute ball donating all of that to various charities over the rest of my lifetime (There would be buildings with my family name on them all over the world!!!) and set up an organization to continue my charity work after I am gone

I think, in the end, everybody wins if I get that kind of money.

MotionMan

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: loki8481
I'd build my dream self-sustaining zombie-proof compound in the middle of the desert.

Why the desert? Personally I'd make the same compound, but on my own tropical island chain.

I was thinking perfect visibility to see anything coming from miles away and no need to worry about hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes.

 

[RESmonkey]

Uhhh...

1. Get a bunch of advisers to help invest it all. (For future generations of family, of course).

2. Take about 1 million dollars, go call up 2 of my closest friends, and go on a binge. And by that I mean do whatever for a whole weekish-monthish. Just go take a vacation out of no where.

3. Give a boat load to parents. (mainly invest it for them).

4. Make a thread about it on ATOT.

5. Start to make a nice house and stuff. Mainly a killer entertainment center. I don't care about furniture. Others can set that up.

6. Have scientists build a particle collider that beats the LHC....and then promise to have experiments making strangelets and other exotic stuff.

7. Buy some of those things the gov't sells to help the economy


I think that's the stuff that first comes to mind.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Buy AT. Ban EVERYONE except the grrrls

Fixed.

Originally posted by: Canai
Buy an island, grow lots of weed, make lots of biofuel, build a small lab and let people come do stem cell research without the gov't looking over their shoulders.

Make biofuel out of the weed?
The more you drive, the higher you get? :thumbsup:


That sum is enough that I probably couldn't spend all of it, (although I'd certainly give it one hell of a try...sheesh, 2 hell's of a try) so, I'd <shudder> probably end up doing something <gag> good with most of it. Maybe fund a clinic in the Virgin Islands and send old hookers there to get rebushed...maybe buy penisland.com and make it live up to its name...a "disneyland" sort of theme park...for women...(no, teh gays would NOT be allowed to ride the rides or buy souveniers!)
heck, maybe I'd even do something nice for myself...like buy a gently used 1978 Yugo or something.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i would set up death camps for political extremists. ironic, i know.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
i would set up death camps for political extremists. ironic, i know.

damn i lol'ed so hard

 

[jjones]

Use it to leverage a one trillion dollar loan and then spend it all on hookers and booze.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Use it to buy/bribe/threaten whomever it took to give NASA the kick in the ass to get manned exploration moving again.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: jjones
Use it to leverage a one trillion dollar loan and then spend it all on hookers and booze.

A trillion dollars is 200,000,000 $5,000 a night hookers. That's 20 hookers a day for over 27,000 years. An ambitious plan, but I don't think it's workable.

 

[pyonir]

the question is: What wouldn't i do with 100 billion?