If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do?

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Re: If You Suddenly Won A Billion Dollars, What Would You Do

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I would go travel the world including Australia.
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Morley wrote:Just re-thought this. With a billion dollars, I'd resurrect a childhood ambition that I've only recently given up.

I'd buy a sailboat and sail around the world, touching the coast of every continent, breaching the water of every sea. I'd meet eager maidens, brown and fair; fight viscous enemies, great and small. In the end, sunburned and dying of thirst, my boat would capsize and I'd be consumed by the giant, grey octopus that lives off the footprint atoll of Diego Garcia.


this sounds good
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Quasimodo wrote:I'd fix up my old Jeep, pay off my bills and have a nice dinner with what was left over.

Nice!

I would invest in my kids' and our future then after turning 50, I would head to New York and study, then I'd go to Milan and Paris then some small town in New Mexico.

I would donate to the Ruby programming foundation and u of u engineering dept.
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Let's just say there would be a shortage of wool socks for a while.
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Bond James Bond wrote:Let's just say there would be a shortage of wool socks for a while.


cashmere, bond, cashmere
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zeezrom wrote:
I would donate to the Ruby programming foundation and u of u engineering dept.


I like this. I too would underwrite some scholarships at my alma mater
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I would fund chairs in Mormon studies at several universities and make sure Michael Quinn got one of them. I'd finance books by Kevin Graham & Will Schryver on the KEP. I'd encourage up and coming Mormon scholars to publish more on Mormonism through grants and fellowships. Maybe create a non-prophet foundation for Mormon studies.
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My kids want to buy Hostess.
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Quasimodo wrote:I'd fix up my old Jeep, pay off my bills and have a nice dinner with what was left over.

Man! Were do you have your Jeep parked? ......on the moon? It's gonna use up a billion to fix it?

Me?
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Nightlion wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:I'd fix up my old Jeep, pay off my bills and have a nice dinner with what was left over.

Man! Were do you have your Jeep parked? ......on the moon? It's gonna use up a billion to fix it?

Me?
I would bring forth the controversy of Zion to the world.....rather relentlessly until something moved in that direction. :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:


I think a donation to the Apocalrock Center could also be fit into the list...
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