We're clear at the Rockhouse on how Las Vegas casinos managed to get so lavish but some bets are still worth taking and ten bucks on a billion sounds ok.
There is no memory of the last purchase of a lottery ticket, maybe the last time it hit a billion or so.
(Ed: it's never been a billion or so before)
Well, maybe back when I thought I could get by with only three or four hundred million then.
So now we can get down to some serious fantasizing ...
The order to the first moves are important since first we want to pay off the debt for anyone in the family and second we want to buy a gigantic orangutan preserve in Indonesia where no-one can ever poach or take their land. Were I to get the orangutan preserve first, my family could be resentful: oh, so you would help out a bunch of monkeys before you give me a hand. I could tell my family they're not monkeys, they're apes, but that probably would not mitigate the situation much.
We're going to build a school in Africa to take in orphan kids and get them a start. Some exist already but the only religion in this one will be music. We want the school to have a band and for them to stream the music to the Internet. We want them to learn about streaming in this way and they will teach their friends.
Note: I told Cat about the school this morning and said after building it just try to keep Cat away. There would be kids making music all over the place. She could see it immediately and was laughing. Yes, just try and keep me away!
Naturally, we will need a few islands. There should be one in the Caribbean and of course that one should have a two to four person submarine for stoner joyriding with the incredibly colorful fish.
(Ed: you would seriously get into a submarine after you have smoked a spliff?)
Not even after I've been whacked on the head with an angry barracuda.
One island is never enough so there will need to be another one off the coast of Greece.
(Ed: sure, that's a good plan. You use up all your good luck on the lottery and then get wiped out in an earthquake which blows away your Greek island.)
Well, that's why we need the helicopters, see.
This one is simply as a public service: we will buy Donald Trump's unbelievably tacky New York City flat (i.e. everything in it is gold) and burn it.
About this pad down here, no chance it will ever be cold again.
(Ed: you have hardly even dented a billion and a half dollars)
Yah, I know. After that we would start giving it away before the taxman can take it.
There is no memory of the last purchase of a lottery ticket, maybe the last time it hit a billion or so.
(Ed: it's never been a billion or so before)
Well, maybe back when I thought I could get by with only three or four hundred million then.
So now we can get down to some serious fantasizing ...
The order to the first moves are important since first we want to pay off the debt for anyone in the family and second we want to buy a gigantic orangutan preserve in Indonesia where no-one can ever poach or take their land. Were I to get the orangutan preserve first, my family could be resentful: oh, so you would help out a bunch of monkeys before you give me a hand. I could tell my family they're not monkeys, they're apes, but that probably would not mitigate the situation much.
We're going to build a school in Africa to take in orphan kids and get them a start. Some exist already but the only religion in this one will be music. We want the school to have a band and for them to stream the music to the Internet. We want them to learn about streaming in this way and they will teach their friends.
Note: I told Cat about the school this morning and said after building it just try to keep Cat away. There would be kids making music all over the place. She could see it immediately and was laughing. Yes, just try and keep me away!
Naturally, we will need a few islands. There should be one in the Caribbean and of course that one should have a two to four person submarine for stoner joyriding with the incredibly colorful fish.
(Ed: you would seriously get into a submarine after you have smoked a spliff?)
Not even after I've been whacked on the head with an angry barracuda.
One island is never enough so there will need to be another one off the coast of Greece.
(Ed: sure, that's a good plan. You use up all your good luck on the lottery and then get wiped out in an earthquake which blows away your Greek island.)
Well, that's why we need the helicopters, see.
This one is simply as a public service: we will buy Donald Trump's unbelievably tacky New York City flat (i.e. everything in it is gold) and burn it.
About this pad down here, no chance it will ever be cold again.
(Ed: you have hardly even dented a billion and a half dollars)
Yah, I know. After that we would start giving it away before the taxman can take it.
2 comments:
Taxman takes his cut off the top but only 25% The other 13% comes,at tax time
Before you give it awsy remember there is an additional gift tax over $10k So hiring relatives is a much better idea They dont actually have to do anything
If your family gets upset over how you spend it lose the phone number
Hiring security would be a prime plan You are now a high risk kidnap prospect
And you cannot blow up coral to allow your yacht to dock as Perrot did
Oprah has a couple of schools in Africa. I would think about buying an old army base hire your ex brother in law to design a working city and staff it with homeless applicants
Once up and running do it again
Cat would want to run that music school but she will need a lot of help and the islands will need people to hang out on them to ensure they are cool. So that job is to be cool. That's a six-figure job for relatives if I ever heard one. Maybe the islands aren't such a good plan since bad guys are going back and forth across the Caribbean all the time and make no mistake of the Mafia in Greece. Sicily isn't that far away!
Money wouldn't change anything about the need to play a song which doesn't suck but it would let me do some really good things without doing a whole hell of a lot. I could just call up WWF and say, hey, if you could get the biggest orangutan preserve you could possibly manage then what would that cost. I only need to send them a check and say, sure, do that.
For that homeless village or city, I'm thinking what product could they create which would make it viable. It might even be ok to turn it into a reefer plantation. Harmless plant, easy to grow, not destructive to anything and a viable business product. Perhaps it's possible to make a giant art colony since many artists are broke and homeless. That conceivably becomes something of a progresso Gatlinburg but without all the glitz. As you say, get it rolling and start another one of another nature but always taking up homeless as much as possible.
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