Life Hypothetical: you get rich. What next? - Page 4

**Rain Man** · 11:47 AM

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.)

**Bugeater** · 04-15-2010, 09:14 PM

This isn't bad for an 80s rig.

acesn8s · 04-15-2010, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

If I was rich, I guess. I'd drive it to nerd events or something. They handle like bricks so it wouldn't be a "regular" driver.

You want to see something really cool? A black Delorean.

Quick! Somebody take some steel wool to that car!

**Rain Man** · 04-15-2010, 09:17 PM

In this situation, I'd be buying a white on white 25th anniversary Lamborghini Countach. I wouldn't even worry that an oil change costs $2,500 or something.

Hammock Parties · 04-15-2010, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

Yeah, it's about as useful as that Lambo on city streets.

Which one do you think is going to get more girls?

**Bugeater** · 04-15-2010, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by GoChiefs

Which one do you think is going to get more girls?

You don't want those types of girls.

acesn8s · 04-15-2010, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

You don't want those types of girls.

He'll take any type of girl.

**luv** · 04-15-2010, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

In this situation, I'd be buying a white on white 25th anniversary Lamborghini Countach. I wouldn't even worry that an oil change costs $2,500 or something.

I know that car is rare, expensive, and probably has power, but I think it's ugly. No offense.

Hammock Parties · 04-15-2010, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

You don't want those types of girls.

I'm rich, I won't be able to help it.

Chief Chief · 04-15-2010, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

You, a rabbi, a horse, the pope, a blonde, a termite, a 12-inch pianist, a frog, and a monk go into a bar.

Is that all ya got?

WHOOPS -- my bad: I thought you said a 12-inch penis...

**Bugeater** · 04-15-2010, 09:25 PM

**Rain Man** · 04-15-2010, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by luv

I know that car is rare, expensive, and probably has power, but I think it's ugly. No offense.

You must have quoted the wrong post, because you couldn't possibly have said this about a white on white anniversary edition Lamborghini Countach.

acesn8s · 04-15-2010, 09:28 PM

I would definetly want to get a Bugatti and see if it really does go 207 mph.

Ebolapox · 04-15-2010, 09:32 PM

finish school, pay off student loans, nice house somewhere secluded (with reasonably nice weather), a few nice cars, then travel. probably get bored after traveling a few years, then settle into a job doing something productive for society (I'd love to set up an independent public-health type organization with no ties to the government that specializes in virus and bacterial research/prevention)

HoneyBadger · 04-15-2010, 11:11 PM

I'd set up a porn studio for regular guys to come pay to be in a film with a porn star...

I'd have a line out the door of men wanting to be in films

Jenson71 · 04-15-2010, 11:46 PM

So nice to think about . . .

1.) I would immediately buy my grandpa's farm. Then I would restore it. I would build an Iowa Farm and History Museum on the property. I would hire a manager to run the farm operation like Polyface Farm in Virginia. I would drive around in a tractor, doing small jobs, pretending like I knew what I was doing, and feed animals, and do little hobbies around the farm, and work on the Iowa Museum.

2.) I would learn Latin, French, and the piano.

3.) I would establish a couple of teaching chairs at Columbus Catholic High School that would fund salaries and benefits from the interest.

4.) I would build a Catholic cultural center and charity in downtown Dubuque, next to the Cathedral.

5.) I would travel to Europe for 6 months

6.) I would pay off my student loans and also my girlfriend's.

View Poll Results: You're rich. What now?
Option 1. Keep the job, no major lifestyle changes, building a fortune to give to your heirs or something.	4	4.35%
Option 2. Start a business venture that you think is promising and interesting.	20	21.74%
Option 3. Get actively involved in political issues as a funder or activist.	2	2.17%
Option 4. Get involved in one or more charities, spending time and money to address a social issue.	7	7.61%
Option 5. Pursue a hobby career to make money/have success, like music or writing.	14	15.22%
Option 6. Pursue a non-moneymaking hobby avidly, like games or Bigfoot research or bodybuilding.	9	9.78%
Option 7. Just putter around and don't do anything overly productive - watch TV, play games, travel, etc.	21	22.83%
Option 8. Pursue social pre-eminence with big parties and dinners.	0	0%
Option 9. I'd probably be destructive and lose it on hookers, whiskey, drugs, etc.	8	8.70%
Option 10. Other (Please 'splain yourself, Lucy.)	7	7.61%
Nothing. I would just stare blankly.	0	0%
Voters: 92. You may not vote on this poll

04-15-2010, 06:09 PM
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $2828491 VARSITY	Hypothetical: you get rich. What next? 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.) Last edited by Rain Man; 04-16-2010 at 11:47 AM..
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Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $2828491 VARSITY	In this situation, I'd be buying a white on white 25th anniversary Lamborghini Countach. I wouldn't even worry that an oil change costs $2,500 or something. __________________ I'm putting random letters here as a celebration of free speech: xigrakgrah misorojeq rkemeseit.
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04-15-2010, 09:32 PM	#58
Ebolapox remember, remember Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: como Casino cash: $1599903	finish school, pay off student loans, nice house somewhere secluded (with reasonably nice weather), a few nice cars, then travel. probably get bored after traveling a few years, then settle into a job doing something productive for society (I'd love to set up an independent public-health type organization with no ties to the government that specializes in virus and bacterial research/prevention)
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04-15-2010, 11:11 PM	#59
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04-15-2010, 11:46 PM	#60
Jenson71 fides quaerens intellectum Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: United States Casino cash: $8330900	So nice to think about . . . 1.) I would immediately buy my grandpa's farm. Then I would restore it. I would build an Iowa Farm and History Museum on the property. I would hire a manager to run the farm operation like Polyface Farm in Virginia. I would drive around in a tractor, doing small jobs, pretending like I knew what I was doing, and feed animals, and do little hobbies around the farm, and work on the Iowa Museum. 2.) I would learn Latin, French, and the piano. 3.) I would establish a couple of teaching chairs at Columbus Catholic High School that would fund salaries and benefits from the interest. 4.) I would build a Catholic cultural center and charity in downtown Dubuque, next to the Cathedral. 5.) I would travel to Europe for 6 months 6.) I would pay off my student loans and also my girlfriend's.
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