Hypothetical: you get rich. What next?

[Rain Man]

Here's the back story for the forthcoming poll.


You, a rabbi, a horse, the pope, a blonde, a termite, a 12-inch pianist, a frog, and a monk go into a bar. You're enjoying your drinks/fodder/wood/flies and watching a replay of the 1972 World Series when a commercial break occurs.

It's Powerball time!

They draw the numbers - 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and Powerball 32 - and the monk starts screaming. Those are the numbers he always plays, because 1 is the number of popes, 2 is the number of cardinals, 4 is the number of bishops, 8 is the number of books in the bible, 16 is the number of apostles, 32 is because O.J. Simpson is his favorite football player.

Truthfully, he became a monk because he didn't have aptitude for most other professions.

So he's all happy, but then remembers a problem. He has taken a vow of poverty. He can't keep the money. He has to give it away immediately or risk the wrath of God.

The rabbi suggests giving it to that Nazi-hunting guy's organization, the horse suggests a scholarship in Barbaro's name, the pope suggests adding it to the untold billions in his secret vault at the Vatican, the blonde is under the table performing oral sex on the monk and can't talk other than waving her left ring finger around, the termite suggests planting a forest of redwoods, the 12-inch pianist wants it for enlargement surgery, and the frog suggests starting up the world's largest maggot incubator. You humbly suggest that he give the money to you.

The monk ponders these suggestions, then collapses and dies of a major heart attack. In the ensuing scuffle, you clock the pope in the face, crush the termite, and elbow your way out of the bar with the winning ticket, setting the bar afire as you leave to eliminate any witnesses.

You turn in the winning ticket and get one of those giant checks, which you immediately cash and convert to safe investments paying an annual return of 5.4 percent per annum. For the rest of your natural days, you will receive annual payments after taxes of $1.2 million.

What do you do next with your life? Assume that you can only pursue one of these options as your main pursuit and focus in life, and that it will fill the bulk of the 40+ hours that you now spend working.

Option 1. Keep the job, no major lifestyle changes, building a fortune to give to your heirs or something.

Option 2. Start a business venture that you think is promising and interesting.

Option 3. Get actively involved in political issues as a funder or activist.

Option 4. Get involved in one or more charities, spending time and money to address a social issue.

Option 5. Pursue a hobby career to make money/have success, like music or writing.

Option 6. Pursue a non-moneymaking hobby avidly, like games or Bigfoot research or bodybuilding.

Option 7. Just putter around and don't do anything overly productive - watch TV, play games, travel, etc.

Option 8. I'd probably be destructive and lose it on hookers, whiskey, drugs, etc.

Option 9. Other (Please 'splain yourself, Lucy.)

[acesn8s]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

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****ing embed radio button ain't doing shit.

Footage of 'Captain Slow' taking the Veyron to +250 MPH.

I got my numbers mixed up. It's 253mph and 407 kph. I still would like to see what the top speed really is.

[tmax63]

After taking care of all the close family and others near and dear to me then I'd have some fun. Would keep the job because you don't want too much free time but it would nice to know that if somebody pissed you off you could tell them to get stuffed and walk. I would start buying land. See how big an area I could mark "private property-stay the fu#k out"

[RNR]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

What's stopping you?

Money I would guess. It would take some bank to take on a venture like that. At least at my age