What Can I Buy You?
 

I intend to win the Euromillions Jackpot tonight. As it's a triple rollover, the jackpot stands at approx £75m ($141,521,292)

So is there anything anyone particularly wants?
Don't be too greedy - I have real friends and family to consider too. And charity of course. But reasonable requests will be honoured.

Please note this does not constitute a legal and binding agreement on my part.

Sundae Girl, you're an angel.

I just need cash. Just enough to get out of debt and start over. Once you have done some initial money divvying, let me know and we can work out the number from pounds to dollars.

Again, thank you! :D

Let's not just give the money away. Let's turn it into MORE money by investing it into a business plan!

I know! Amway!

Oh, thank heavens! I am glad somebody I know (even via cyberspace) is going to win!

I like UT's idea but I also could use a new kitchen floor--just the tiles, not the underfloor.

Oh, and the labor, of course.

Amway?? Didn't you say you need to get out of debt and start over?

Yes, I am for sale. After you win the jackpot pm me and we'll negotitate a reasonable price. I am an excellent cook, but don't do windows.

Shawnee, sorry - giving cash has tax implications. Obviously they will provide me with a financial advisor, but I'm pretty sure he/she will nix cash advances. Perhaps I could buy you a business opportunity?

UT - don't worry, I won't forget the Cellar. After all I'll be sitting on my big fat millionaire's arse with nothing to do until the postman comes with my purchases.

I may have to arrange a great big Cellar party, all travel and expenses paid. You okay to cater Foot? :)

I'm not sure how long these things take to process, but I reckon I can spend all the salary that's just gone into my bank account in the meantime.

Hmmmm. Better wait til the draw at 22.00 tonight I guess. But I do have a good feeling about it.....

Let's see, what sort of business would I NOT screw up? How about just buying me a Beamer? :rolleyes:

Okay doke

One kitchen floor (with fitting)
One BMW
One large Paypal donation to the Cellar
One employment contract

Seems reasonable

Terry Bozzio's drumset?

Moog System 55, please.

I'm trying to decide between an RPG or one of Saddam's Gold Plated AKs ...

Probably I should just ask for £30,000 and take my time and figure it all out properly.

All I ask for is a viable democratic candidate for the next presidential election.

They must have one up their sleeve, considering they ran a place-holder last time around.

Even with £75m I think politics is too expensive a hobby for me, sorry.

Wolf & Elspode get their requests
Flint you can have the drumkit (or one like it anyway) as long as you don't move anywhere near me. I'll install automated bollards in your driveway otherwise.

A 1964 Chevy Malibu SS. Thanking you in advance...

A Mazda 5 would be helpful hauling the family around.

how bout some money to pay off my student loans? essentially, i'd have to thank you when i'm "all grown up" :)

Ok - l hate to ask, but may I have a brand new 35' Blackfin fishing boat with twin diesel engines, a fighting chair and a full tank of fuel? My dad is now retired and could pilot the boat, so we could take you around now and again - if you'd like.

A couple Marshall stacks, an Ibanez Vai2kDNA Jem, aaaand... A couple Gretsch White Falcons.

I'd like an autographed picture of you collecting the check, please.



Oh, and a bottle of rum for BobT......please. :blush:

Man, I hope she won.

Yeah, this in gonna be awesome. A thread is a binding contract... isn't it?

Sigh

Don't know how to break this guys....
But I'm at work today, not collecting my massive cheque.

Maybe next week....?

Well poo! Good luck next week, SG!

I need a new motor for my boat, a 50 hp Honda should do nicely. Thats about $6000.00
Thank You Capt. Fargon
P.S. When you come to the states we can go boating on the Mississippi.

aw, that sux i'm sorry. It was nice to imagine tho huh?
I think I might by a lotto ticket, I could really use tuition and rent money...

Want to hear the saddest thing?
I didn't check my ticket until this morning, so that I could keep the idea of a potential win against my heart all weekend. Not often £1.50 of dreams can keep you warm all weekend :)

I figured since I didn't get that PM from you re: payment details.

that's funny. i refer to 'winning lottery ticket syndrome' in my line of work. when a salesman suspects that their customer has bad credit, they sometimes become hesitant to run the credit. for much the same reason.

Why I never play the lottery:

Many years ago, back when snakes could walk, I lived in New Hampster and they had this lottery wherein you bought a ticket for five dollars and you had five chances to pick a combination of six numbers from 1 to 36.

The jackpot was five or ten or twenty or a hundred million dollars.

I never bought those tickets considering them a tax upon people who don't understand math. I was at the grocery stoare and I saw the five hundred and sixty million dollar jackpot and figured I'd spend five bucks and buy a ticket.

I chose five sets of six numbers. I decide to pick unique numbers, not choosing the same number twice, so when I was done I had chosen 30 out of 36 numbers. It occured to me that for another five bucks I could choose the remaining six numbers I hadn't selected, and thereby cover all my numeric bases. But I figured if I was going to play this stupid game of chance I'd give myself one chance. You know, when it's your time, it's your time, all that crap.

So the next day they read off the numbers, big fanfare. And the winning numbers were THE SIX NUMBERS I DIDN'T CHOOSE.

There are many ways to interpret that event, input the data into your cosmology and the cosmic muffin will oracle all kinds of things.

Me? I took it as a sign that I was not meant to play the lottery.

Hi Lo poker maybe. the lottery? Not so much, I think.

you dumbass. you figured out how to win every time. just do that thing in that long post up there ^ , and play the numbers that are left. gah!

Dood, where were you when I needed you?

I coulda been a contender...

coulda shoulda woulda...

Aliantha, I love Australian movies, and I'm not just talking Nick Roeg, but for god's sake hon, get out and do some road work! :)

Charlie: Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.
Terry: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
Charlie: Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.
Terry: You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.

In anticipation of next week, I would like a Rivendell bicycle, please. Their main model if you win, Quickbeam if not (although probably just the frame; I would want to ride it flipflop fixed/free.)

Road work?

That's a beauty. If I had a camera I'd take a shot of my vintage bike. similarly handmade.

I once was drinking "mega ritas" in a bar in New Hampshire called the Rivendell. After getting as high as is possible on Tequila and still breathing, I went out to the porch of the bar for a breath of air. I saw a Schwinn Continental (aka the lead sled) parked thereon. Some idea crept upon me and I decided to climb aboard and go for a turn on the wheel (cf Gorey) Within moments I was heading South on I93 near Franconia. A minute or so later my pals had detected my absence formo the bar and sought me out. They commandeered a station wagon (c.1980) and overtook me on the highway, confiscating my purloined bicycle and delivering me back to the Rivendell bar, bike returned to the porch it's owner none the wiser of his bike's peregrinations.

Tequila.

It's something that a friend of mine used to say all the time (quoting his soccer coach, who was a Scot) "Ya can git the ball through the net laddie, but fer chris sake, go out and do some road work" meaning stamina, staying power, or experience.

It was a jab at not knowing a line from a seriously famous American film.

Yes well, I'm feeling pretty anti-intellectual today

Over here today is tomorrow.

Well I'll be back to my intellectual self again yesterday then.

Just bought my ticket for this week.
Was pleased to hear that no-one won the jackpot, so it is now up to £88m (US $167,094,400 AU $217,624,000)

Am pleased to hear my money didn't go to some damn furriner.... despite making plans to spend it on other furriners :)

My grandparents' home, and my family still owns land there.

I have everything I need.
My wants would not fit on your hard drive.
I'm a window shop-a-holic, but I buy very little.... I have a very small knife collection (one museum replic sword) and am window shopping some nice knives now. I have a few things I window shop from time to time. A.G. Russell is my favorite site and I really want a new Bowie. This is my current favorite.
Let's see...
Different tobacco and accessories, pipes, pipe tobacco mostly but humidors are in there.
Used to do video games, but I never play.
DVDs... these I actually buy.
Cowboy boots.
Guns, which I never buy, but I like looking at and staying apprised of what is out there, I have had the same for over fifteen years.
Stuff for the house.
Toys for my son and I to play with.
Music, all kinds.
Fun instruments we can both play.
Charities to give to, I do this when I can. My favorites is the one that gives animals to people who need them all over the world... I can look it up, but I think it is called the Heifer Project. That is what I would want you to do in my name.

I do that with my "Rolling Cash 5" tickets. It's nice to dream that I have enough dough to get out of debt, if only for a day or two.

Those spooky crossroads once again.

I'll ask my pals who live there if they know your name. It's a small world.

The name to ask about is Brockelman.

If Brocky drove their school bus, I'll wager they loved him... like I did.