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Offline rich_t

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$640M Mega Lotto
« on: March 30, 2012, 04:51:49 PM »
If you took the lump sum of $462,000,000

$346,500,000 after Federal taxes.  A bit less after state taxes (depending on state).

How would you spend it?
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 04:52:58 PM »
A house and some land way out in the country.

Everything else is just gravy.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 05:02:23 PM »
I would set up a trust fund for my grand daughter.

Invest some of it.

Buy some land in fly over country and build a nice house.

Travel some.

Help out my immediate family by making sure my parents were set for the rest of their lives.  Pay off my brother's house.  Buy homes for my adult kids.

Give some to charity.

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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2012, 05:02:50 PM »
I really don't know. I'm content with the way things are....but a little money wouldn't hurt anything. But that kind of money would ruin my present situation. That kind of money could make one a very, very lonely person.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2012, 05:08:25 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 30, 2012, 05:02:50 PM
I really don't know. I'm content with the way things are....but a little money wouldn't hurt anything. But that kind of money would ruin my present situation. That kind of money could make one a very, very lonely person.

I have:

04 05 10 12 35 -04
07 17 28 29 37 -45
13 22 25 27 41 -44
14 28 48 52 55 -16
25 28 33 47 54 -45

What do you have?
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2012, 05:14:38 PM »
I would see if I could spend it all in 95 minutes.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2012, 05:16:44 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on March 30, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
I have:

04 05 10 12 35 -04
07 17 28 29 37 -45
13 22 25 27 41 -44
14 28 48 52 55 -16
25 28 33 47 54 -45

What do you have?


I have

11 23 26 38 41 -12

If that's a winner, don't even try getting in touch with me for a few days. I'll be busy trying to figure a way to get the money without "MY" name being tied to it.

...and just for giggles...I like that last line of numbers you have.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2012, 05:19:18 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 30, 2012, 05:16:44 PM
I have

11 23 26 38 41 -12

If that's a winner, don't even try getting in touch with me for a few days. I'll be busy trying to figure a way to get the money without "MY" name being tied to it.

...and just for giggles...I like that last line of numbers you have.

Well, it would be nice, but knowing odds of things in proper proportion, of course I can't win.

<<has a better chance, a far better chance, of being killed in a vending-machine mishap.

Really.  That's what the newspapers pointed out today.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2012, 05:22:31 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on March 30, 2012, 05:19:18 PM
Well, it would be nice, but knowing odds of things in proper proportion, of course I can't win.

<<has a better chance, a far better chance, of being killed in a vending-machine mishap.
Really.  That's what the newspapers pointed out today.

That's why in the 10 years or so that it's been here...I've spent a grand total of $6.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2012, 05:27:00 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 30, 2012, 05:22:31 PM
That's why in the 10 years or so that it's been here...I've spent a grand total of $6.

I do three bucks each drawing (about the past ten years too), no matter the jackpot.

I ended up with five because I'd gotten one that I forgot about.  And then when I went to get the usual three, the clerk made a mistake, printing out four instead.

Hint: if a clerk makes an innocent mistake in dispensing scratch or lottery tickets, buy it anyway.

I'm not sure why, but there's a disproportionate number of winners (scratch and lottery) where either the clerk made an innocent mistake but the customer bought it anyway, or the clerk made an innocent mistake and as the customer didn't want it, the clerk had to buy it.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2012, 05:46:01 PM »
I have

07 13 18 19 38 -09
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2012, 06:37:50 PM »
I bought 10 quick picks.

What would I do. I would hide my conservative credentials and produce movies that do not portray Christians or Conservatives as evil. I would make muslims the bad guys, and toss in a liberal suck up who sides with them.
I would go easy at first so as not to be black listed.

It would be great fun to to to Obama what HBO does to conservatives.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2012, 06:46:34 PM »
Buy a farm and pay a bunch of conservative scientists to find the liberal gene and eradicate it!
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2012, 06:48:16 PM »
I would buy the houses on either side of each one of my enemies and rent them all out to crack dealers.  
But I guess that my enemies can rest easy since I haven't bought tickets.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2012, 06:51:36 PM »
Quote from: catsmtrods on March 30, 2012, 06:46:34 PM
Buy a farm and pay a bunch of conservative scientists to find the liberal gene and eradicate it!
Cheaper to hire a bunch of good ol boys with rifles.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2012, 06:55:27 PM »
Of course take care of my immediate family and then give relatives and friends some money, would definitely donate money to various Churches, Charities, and Animal Shelters. I'd also like to go to various Churches and find kids who are doing the right thing, going to school and working and give them a car and some money for school, also would like to find some hard working families who refuse to depend on the Government and are working hard, and give them money for a House they can own free and clear. I also like the comment someone made about buying Democratic Underground, rename it Everyone Underground and allow everyone to post there free and openly, and of course you guys would be made Mods and Admins there.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2012, 06:59:08 PM »
We got up a lottery pool at work with 140 picks, then I bought some on my own.

I'd give some to family and extended family then disappear.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2012, 07:02:40 PM »
with that much money where would you relocate?

I've been thinking about the Alaskan panhandle or an island there.
In the states, I've though about Texas or Montana, maybe Idaho.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2012, 07:02:58 PM »
I'd buy a new ass, this one's got a crack in it.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2012, 07:35:42 PM »
Tell my boss I quit--over the phone.  From my suite at the Bellagio.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2012, 07:51:25 PM »
Two chicks at the same time.

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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2012, 07:59:36 PM »
I would disconnect my phone and go hide.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2012, 08:13:37 PM »
I would buy a car that runs. :lmao:

And half a dozen that don't.
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2012, 10:08:08 PM »
I hear the government has a few missile silos for sale. Might look into buying the site to relocate . No problems with DUmmies because they couldn't find it let alone get in if they did. Also I'd do some of the things others have mentioned before and what ever is left I'd use it to keep the funds going. Have to make your money work for you just like those evil 1%. Oh and maybe find a way to fund a certain race in Bellevue, Nebraska. I hear some people need to get the word out about http://www.electstevedawes.com/
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Re: $640M Mega Lotto
« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2012, 10:14:05 PM »
I would probably set up a small trust to keep the local animal shelter supplied with food.  I'm on their Facebook feed so I get requests for food occasionally.
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