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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: slipknot on July 02, 2008, 08:33:52 AM
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After taxes that is?
Please, be creative.
Buying a VW GTI with chromed exhaust is really really lame.
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Buy the island that my wife and I went to, on our honeymoon.
www.psvresort.com (http://www.psvresort.com)
Oh yeah, and the transportation to get there.
For starters.
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Buy the island that my wife and I went to, on our honeymoon.
www.psvresort.com (http://www.psvresort.com)
Oh yeah, and the transportation to get there.
For starters.
I think I'd spend about 20% on real estate in the first 2 years, and hide the rest to collect interest. Of course there would be various more fun, less stable investements, but that would be a start.
For Charity I would find a good tax attorney to keep the money out of the hands of the leeches.
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bulk sum or paid out over time?
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bulk sum or paid out over time?
Bulk, after taxes... Your existing savings account, plus 9 figures.
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Bulk, after taxes... Your existing savings account, plus 9 figures.
considering 100M can get you half a Billion......go on a real estate buying spree.....in the form of hotels...along with some well qualified partners...and move to australia.
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After taxes that is?
Please, be creative.
Buying a VW GTI with chromed exhaust is really really lame.
i'd put it away, and live nicely off the interest. i think that would let me bu a nice home in one of the carolinas, with my own private airstrip, and fence the sucker in.
<<S>>
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Two chicks at one time, man.
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Then I'd travel... a lot.
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What ever I want.
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Pay off my mortgage, invest in some real estate (hotels and whatnot), purchase an Ege-540 and begin entering aerobatic competitions and advertising myself to fly @ airshows :) oh.... and id be slightly wasteful on a couple things.. id buy a Lamborghini for myself, and my wife likes the little Lotus elise.....
Sol
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Then I'd travel... a lot.
SOB would travel in search of three girls at once until he found that and then he'd travel looking for four girls at once...... ect.
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After taxes that is?
Please, be creative.
Immediate needs will be taken care of:
- Pay off my current house and complete the work on the renovation to add the partial second story and have the back yard redone completely.
- Pay off the current cars and buy myself an Aston Martin Vanquish.
- grab that old 1993 Range Rover to have it restored to mint condition for my son to drive when he turns 16.
- Buy a lake house on Lake Martin and Lake Jefferson here in Alabama
- Buy a nice 40-60 foot yacht to put in the Gulf of Mexico and live on during the winter and park off the beach in the summer. Who needs a condo at the beach when you can cruise around to different beaches in the Gulf/Carribean.
Just a few small things on my bucket/wish list:
- Hire a mercenary group to tie up a few long term small items from the past...just because I can with $100 million.
- Buy an F4U Corsair and restore it to flying condition and learn how to fly it after I have learned how to fly real planes and not these cartoon ones that I have a problem landing consistently.
- Finish stocking up on guns and ammo in common types so that I will not have to many exotic calibers to deal with. I prefer 7.62 x 39 or x 51
- Buy a stake in a professional football team.
- QUIT FRIGGIN WORKING FOR A LIVING AND START DOING SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO DO!
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odd that none of you would immediately bolster personal security and insurance issues for self and loved ones.
there are bad people out there looking for people with new found money.....I'd even look at kidnapping insurance.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that I would move my family to previously mentioned island.
Insurance? Pfft. Shore batteries would be insurance enough. :devil
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After taxes that is?
Please, be creative.
Buying a VW GTI with chromed exhaust is really really lame.
Put 2 to 3 million into mutual funds, draw off 8% for a income of about $200,000. Use that income to travel the world. 97 million for charity.
Oh who am I kidding? 97 million for me! 2 to 3 million for charity. Ya that should quell my conscience. Well maybe not that much. My conscience is relatively dormant. OK 100 million into mutual funds drain off 8% for income. Give to charity as long as I get a tax break. Get a house in Las Vegas. Make it decadent with gold toilets, expensive garish art/statues a 60 inch plasma in the bathroom. Put a Lamborghini in the garage. Never drive it. Have a chauffeur drive me everywhere.
Fill the pool with beer, swim to the bottom and drink my way dry. Hire a new stripper every day. When I run out of new strippers. Move to a new city, probably Reno.
OK I really wouldn't hire any strippers or move to Vegas. At my age, its about family and my community. I wouldn't be Mother Theresa but I wouldn't be like a Tyco CEO either. Provide for my family, live comfortable, but not too opulent. Travel. Help my community where I can. My favorite charities would probably be education, children, women (I have 2 daughters) related.
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1. Start a trust fund for both my kids, 3mil investment each.
2. Toss a couple mil to the ex with a written agreement that she NEVER ask me for money EVER again.
3. Pay off my parents house for them and toss them a couple mil to play with.
4. Buy my sister and nephew a new house and set him up with a trust fund and give my sister a couple mil
5. Buy myself a nice house.
6. Quit my job, buy a boat and go fishing all the time.
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Insurance? Pfft. Shore batteries would be insurance enough. :devil
yeah...but what do ya wanna bet that when you finally get in it.......it wont turn far enough to the left or right...or downward. ;)
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Damn..............
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Buy a lake house on Lake Martin
I live in Alexander City.
Havin fun at Chimney Rock.
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/acfireguy26/517307217_l1.jpg)
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Reveal slipknots real identity.
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Well,
I would start with one of these:
http://www.eclipseaviation.com/eclipse_500/
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I would buy the rights to this game from HTC and only let my friends play, and people willing to pay $14.99 per hour, and could prove they were republicans.
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I would buy the rights to this game from HTC and only let my friends play, and people willing to pay $14.99 per hour, and could prove they were republicans.
:rofl
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1. Start a trust fund for both my kids, 3mil investment each.
2. Toss a couple mil to the ex with a written agreement that she NEVER ask me for money EVER again.
3. Pay off my parents house for them and toss them a couple mil to play with.
4. Buy my sister and nephew a new house and set him up with a trust fund and give my sister a couple mil
5. Buy myself a nice house.
6. Quit my job, buy a boat and go fishing all the time.
I'd actually set up conditions for the trust fund. The main condition would be that my children would have to earn say 2 million dollars on their own before the trust fund becomes their's. If my children turn out to be worthless losers, then the trust fund keeps growing with interest. It will become available to the first descendant of mine who does 2 million dollars (inflation adjusted).
As for charity? I'd probably donate a LOT of money (relatively speaking) to an organization of mine that would have no idea what to do with it. Say for example my sailing club. Every year through our fund raising and our expenses, we get roughly $1,000 more in the bank. What if suddenly they had 5 million dollars to play with. I doubt our 30 person organization could touch more than an extra 20 G's a year.
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I would by a huge piece of land near a lake,secluded and build a big compound with all my family and close friends having their own houses. Id build an arena with a stage and sound system and play guitar with my buds all day, everyday. We'd have alot of partys and hire bands we want to see, and drink. Alot.
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Destabilize and take over a small latin american or asian country using the right financial leverage and appropriate mercenary forces. Provide tolerant but aboslutely forceful leadership for my subjects. Petition the US govt. to become a regional puppet state. Develope an effective local military force to deal with my neighbors, should the need arise. Much like a kinder and gentler Saddam Hussein, but without the overt opression and the whloe Kuwait thing. Quickly recoup my initial investment, and then some.
Charon
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I'm pretty in line with Reschke's lists:
Pay off mortgage on house.
Pay off car notes.
Pay off mortgage for my parents, for my husbands parents, and our brothers/sisters.
Purchase vehicles for each of my sons... for them to restore with their pops.
Make full payment for college for each of them... for as long as they wanted to attend.
Create a trust for each of them... couple million upon reaching adulthood.
Instead of ever going back to work... I'd just be a permanent student... taking college courses whenever & wherever I want, all the time... not even working toward degrees, really... just subjects that I want to learn about... full time student for the rest of my life. :)
Pay for an Operation Care Package (USO) event once a year for about 20 years [i think their standard is about 10,000 packages per event]
Pay for the local enlisted spouses club's full calendar of events for about 5 years [they do some pretty great stuff for the folks around here]
There's an awesome local homeless shelter... I'd pay for a complete renovation of all of their offices and the homes on their property.
I'd donate a sizeable amount to our church congregation...
I'd pay for the building of a preaching school, which our other church congregation hopes to build (elsewhere in Texas... we spend enough time there that it's our '2nd' place we attend church at)
The rest of it I'd give to my husband to do with as he wishes. ;)
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I would have a gun room and trophy room you wouldnt believe.
My trophy room would be a copy of Noahs Ark with 2 of every legal game animal in the world in it.
I'd be on the road 6 mos a year hunting and fishing. I'd have about 1,000 acres to run my dogs in, shoot waterfowl, deer hunt, and with a 1,000 yrd range for all my friends to shoot at.
I'd give a huge gift to the NRA and dedicate the rest of my life to protect sport hunting and the 2nd amendment.
I'd give huge gifts to scouting, both boys and girls. I would do something for veterans and crippled LEOs. And for the familys of those who have lost loved ones in service.
And I'd sit on my arse a lot playing cartoon war, only with a better system.
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Buy a nice sail boat and sail the world.
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<------ 1st pay off my car debts (insurance, tickets, etc.)
then i would buy this
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i would open the largest reptile sanctuary, and get a breeding pair of Komodo Dragons.
and hire a teacher to home school all my kids.
plus Filth has the same idea, huge compound for the whole family and friends.
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Potted meat for life!
:aok,
Wab
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Buy a nice sail boat and sail the world.
Aye, matey. :aok
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$100,000,000 AFTER taxes? :O
After Giving my Stepfather, and real father, best friend, and religious donations 10% each I'd have $60,000,000 left.
I would build my own gated community for friends / family that would like to live there. Each house would be built by me, it would be up to them to furnish and stuff. There would be up to 15/20 houses and a central clubhouse. It will probably cost ~$30,000,000 fully landscaped and all the amenities.
That leaves $30,000,000 for me.
Cars:
Original 1966 Shelby AC cobra 427
Custom 1980 Monte Carlo (my first car)
Rare 1986 Monte Carlo Aerocoupe
http://www.montecarloss.com/86Aerocoupe.html
1987 Buick grand National
1987 Lamborghini Countach
I'd then shop around for various cars and motorcycles. I'd get a Hummer H1 or original kind, and a Harley for sure.
In my garage I'd have a full shop with a lift, tire machine, and wheel balancer.
I'd buy everyone in the Muppets a custom top of the line gaming rig for playing AH and if they have room a cockpit type thing custom built.
With what is left over I'd get a residence of some type in the following:
Hawaii
Las Vegas
New York
Florida (not sure if gulf side or Atlantic side)
A small Island in the Bahamas
I'd put a small private runway in my gated community big enough for maybe a cessna, but mostly for ultralight flying.
I'd see about buying a golf course, and with investing the rest and the golf course income I would live comfortably the rest of my days.
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Hmm....nobody said 50 million Big Macs.....
dayum health freaks.
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1) I'd buy out HiTech so I could impliment some "changes". How about these for the L.T.A.R.'s? :D
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/8454/petaltankep9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
2) I'd provide plane tickets to all those celebrities who constantly threaten to leave the country, but won't. First class even.
3) Start a F1 racing team.
4) Buy several members of Congress
5) Use 4) to make a Hell of a lot more than $100,000,000 :D
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Three Words: President Mojo Nixon
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Three Words: President Mojo Nixon
OK, I wanna change my mind
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I'd buy enough gasoline to last an entire year. Well, ok, 6 months.
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I'd buy AHII and computer for myself and the entire squad and other respected folk to handle the game.
I'd buy a wide selection of belt-fed weapons. Id move somewhere where I can use said weapons. My Camaro would get the Uber-Overhauling and I'd pay to have a fully armed and functional Tiger Tank built so I can ride it around my yard abd blast out those stumps and groundhog holes.
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Pay off all Debt
Zero out a few friends and loved ones
Buy some land....100acres'ish to maybe 500. With or without house.
Find or build house in an economical fasion but cost not to exceed maybe 250k, hopefully less.
Still Work and use less than 1/2 of interest to live off of.
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Two chicks, a goat and SOB at one time, man.
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Pretty sure it would cause me and everyone I know and love a lot of grief up to and including our deaths.
Too much money. For me anyway. I was not raised around that kind of wealth nor were my family or friends. It would be like a poison.
lazs
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Pretty sure it would cause me and everyone I know and love a lot of grief up to and including our deaths.
Too much money. For me anyway. I was not raised around that kind of wealth nor were my family or friends. It would be like a poison.
lazs
I'll gladly accept a gift of whatever surplus you do not think you can handle. Thanks in advance.
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Pretty sure it would cause me and everyone I know and love a lot of grief up to and including our deaths.
Too much money. For me anyway. I was not raised around that kind of wealth nor were my family or friends. It would be like a poison.
lazs
A wise man.:salute That's why my answers were totally facetious. I can't begin to fathom having that much money, or the idiotic self-destructive things I'd do with it.
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Give 5 million to my parents, sister, grandfather, grandma, and probably best friend's family.
With what's left I would buy a plane, boat, and car. Probably a couple of each. Keep my current home, but buy some land, 500 acres ish, with a decent size body of water on it.
Probably a waterfront home in Florida, and a nice sized cabin in Alaska. Hunt and fish whenever I like, as long as I like.
Travel the world, probably hunting and fishing while doing so.
Have my own workshop, in one of my homes, where I could build and tinker with things.
Buy every gun I ever wanted, most from WWII.
Complete numerous other things I would like to do in my life, scuba diving, sky diving, and get my pilot's license, to name a few. With said pilot's license I would tour the world in whatever aircraft I chose.
The rest would go in the bank.
That would be the life.
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problem is.. no matter how bad I know the money would be for me and everyone around me.. I would still keep it.. like the guy who knows the devil will screw him on his wish but can't help trying to make a wish that will make him happy forever. I am sure it would turn out badly tho but.. it is as bad as any drug.
I would just as soon the money never came my way. Couple mil? maybe.. Not enough to bring out all the vultures. enough to maybe give yourself and family a little boost up without turning them into the kind of spoiled aholes we see in the tabloids.
lazs
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For starters pay off all my debt.. its not much but I hate to owe money.
Then i'd set aside a few accounts for interest. One for myself, one for my parents and my sister.. one for my cousins who have financial troubles so they can go to college, another one for a kid I care a lot about in the same situation as my cousins so she can go to college too...
mmm then I guess I'd move to a small pacific island where I'd set up bussinesses and stuff to improve the local community and live there...marry a local girl, be happy.. and every other year take a small trip to some unknown country.
that'd be it for me.
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buy hitechcretions and mute skuzzy for a week!!11
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First, pay off debts. Second, buy the wifey a nice house. Third, buy a B-25 Mitchell and one of the Flugwerk Fw-190D-9 that they are planning. From there, whoe cares. I would have my planes and spend all my time flying. Oh, might as well pay for life subscriptions for all of you that I have flown with and against. Just not the guys who have HO'd me.
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I forgot to add in that I would spend huge amounts of time hunting various animals that were on the verge of extinction like Polar Bears, etc...
I too would provide a safe haven for friends and family but they have to provide their own ammo and guns but they are free to use mine from time to time.
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I'd Buy a P51
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Pay off the debts, new home with a bit of land around it, help out friends and family, make sure my daughter is set for life.
Start my warbird collection.
P38E/F/G/H, B25C/D, P51B/C, Spitfire XII etc
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Buy myself a couple federal judges, a couple of congressmen, a few folks in the justice Dept
Then do whatever the hell I want.
That or buy myself a private island.
Line the shores with land mines and remote controled machine gun nests.
Then plant a big sign that says
"STAY AWAY- THIS MEANS YOU"
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Buy myself a couple federal judges, a couple of congressmen, a few folks in the justice Dept
Then do whatever the hell I want.
That or buy myself a private island.
Line the shores with land mines and remote controled machine gun nests.
Then plant a big sign that says
"STAY AWAY- THIS MEANS YOU"
Add: No Hablamos Espanol
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That is a nice Mohair sweater that fellow on the right is wearing. A tad hot for a summer boat trip though.
As to the $100 million:
Quit work and travel.
It isn't the kind of money it used to be...make it a billion and I'd throw in a yacht and a private jet....but with only $100 million I'd just fly everywhere first class.
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Add: No Hablamos Espanol
how about. instead
in English
"Danger. Mine Feild & Machine gun Nests
Duck and advance no further"
And in Spanish
"Remain Standing
For Free Health care. Advance 100 yards"
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Rent a server from HTC, pay them a huge amount of money to put the original beta game on it with the new artwork. Send out invites for free accounts to guys that just like to fight in airplanes. :D
After that, I'd just waste some money.
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Hmmm 100 mil.
well I have no mortgage,no car loan and no debt....
Maybe I'd get a new creditcard.
seriously the first thing I'd do is hide,I've got a friend who won 6 mil. he was hounded for months by people asking for money.He even had a yacht saleman show up at his door with a 40 ft. blow boat saying it was already to go...
The 1 thing money cant buy{ya love} is happiness and good drugs are a poor substitute.
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I might kill off all the condors.. those buzzards are causing a lot of problems.
lazs
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I'd give 10% to my church.
I'd give 10% to the Oklahoma Police Officers Pension Fund
I'd start a 501c non-profit that takes over paying expenses for fallen Police officer's families for 5 years after the death occurs; then fund it myself.
I'd buy a new home, custom built, outside of Claremore, Ok. Nothing lavish, just big enough for my family. 100 acres to run around on. A house for my parents too.
Travel the world for a few years, then settle back down in my beloved Oklahoma.
I'd put the rest into the bank and collect interest.
I'd still work in Law Enforcement.
:aok
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finish college, do my time in the USAF, then build a home at the age of 28, retire, and spend the rest of my life traveling
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Any thing I want at the time that I want it.
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2Chicks at once? Nothing to brag about... 4 at once is a lot of work though.
$100mil? Since Sarah and I have no personal debt, I'd be paying off bills for our families, getting a nice comfortable house for Sarah, Brianna and I, making sure we had room for one or two extras down the track :D
Then I'd buy as many subdivided blocks of what passes for land as I can, and build decent affordable housing on reasonable sized ĵacre blocks and put a BIIIG cat amongst the rental overlord pigeons :lol
I'd probably continue to work at my current job though. I'd go nuts if I had nothing to do.
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i would get amnesia ... i wouldnt remember anyone ;)
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1. Invest enough for my family and future generations that they would never need to worry about finances.
2. Invest in business opportunities.
3. Ongoing Donations and programs/development to UNICEF
4. Invest in the local small community where I grew up.
5. The rest I could spend aimlessly on material things. But I would rather spend a few good years travelling on a motorbike
around the world taking my time and each year have a go at the Paris to Dakar. :D
<S>...-Gixer
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Initialy invest all but 10M. Mostly safe and long term stuff like land. Set myself up with a perfectly sci-fi but economical life so I can dedicate the next 10 years to learning everything possible about neuroengineering and anything 1 or 2 degrees removed.
Get into a career to reverse engineer the brain... Depending on how things play out I'll start a pet company like Flugwerk and find some way to inject a ton of warbirds in private collections for as cheap as possible.. For people who'll fly them, not just display them. Target would be as many warbirds in the air, not profit. I'd probably keep profits only large enough to keep the machinery running. I'd at least fab myself a Ta152.
I'd never dip investments under 50% of the total sum. I'd only lend money to people who had a solid plan for profit and agreed to 25-50% returns to me in the first part of their plan but nothing after that, depending on whether they do it just for their own profit (50% ROI to me) or if they have some altruistic plan that pushes human progress (25% or whatever low ROI is worth it, in that case), like an angel investor of sorts.
Fusion, self-replicating machinery and nanomanufacturing, artificial intelligence, medical progress, space exploration (mostly consequent on progress in materials, AI, etc, I'd push bottom up, not compete with NASA or anything), and probably a good deal of effort in education either localy at a mid/high level, or as incentives for wider lower-level education for small kids... That last one would probably be a huge time sink, though. I'd probably not do it unless I could visit every target site myself at least once a month to see that things are working like they're supposed to.
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4th of July and I was just noticing yesterday how ratty the grill was...so I'd probably buy a grill.
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I'd still work in Law Enforcement.
Repo I couldnt see winning 100 m and still getting up every morning to push that beat car around the block.
I'd be out of this uniform faster then Superman.