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Many of you might be familiar with the 1985 film starring Richard Pryor, but did you know that it's one of the most filmed movies ever?

It's the fifth movie with that title: There were Brewster's Millions movies made in 1914, 1921, 1935 and 1945. There was also 'Miss Brewster's Millions' made in 1926 and a movie based on the same premise called 'Three on a Spree' made in 1961.

History Lesson over. The real question is this:

If you had to spend $100,000,000 dollars in 30 days in order to earn your real inheritance of $1 Billion how would you do it?

There are, of course, some rules:

You can have no assets of worth after 30 days. Just the clothes you started with.
You can give no more than 5% to friends, 5% to charity and gamble no more than 5%.
You cannot tell anybody.
Every single penny must be accounted for.
You can't destroy any.


How would you do it?

Many of you might be familiar with the 1985 film starring Richard Pryor, but did you know that it's one of the most filmed movies ever?

It's the fifth movie with that title: There were Brewster's Millions movies made in 1914, 1921, 1935 and 1945. There was also 'Miss Brewster's Millions' made in 1926 and a movie based on the same premise called 'Three on a Spree' made in 1961.

History Lesson over. The real question is this:

If you had to spend $100,000,000 dollars in 30 days in order to earn your real inheritance of $1 Billion how would you do it?

There are, of course, some rules:

You can have no assets of worth after 30 days. Just the clothes you started with.
You can give no more than 5% to friends, 5% to charity and gamble no more than 5%.
You cannot tell anybody.
Every single penny must be accounted for.
You can't destroy any.


How would you do it?

Chuck E. Cheeses. I WILL win that stupid game this time...

Hookers, hookers, hookers. Really expensive ones. And LOTS of drugs and alcohol. In fact, I may just rent the Playboy Mansion for the month.

Easy!

Step 1. Give the 5% to friends and charity
Step 2. Buy a really incredibly large jet with the rest of the money
Step 3. Find someone who is a good pilot who would be willing to crash a plane
Step 4. Obtain 2 parachutes
Step 5. Fly the plane
Step 6. You and the pilot exit the plane on parachutes
Step 7. Land
Step 8. Dispose of the parachutes

And you have no money, nothing but the clothes on your back after 30 days.

I'd hire loads of really, really expensive things for a month. And buy expensive stuff and give it away.

Or start a Formula One team. I mean, you have to pay $48m just to enter, so that's half of it gone right there.

Eventually it would add up.

Give it to random Congressmen in return for renaming a few national landmarks. I really don't care what is renamed or who it is renamed after, but I'd love to see the Washington monument renamed the Big Ass Pointy Thing.

Seems like a good waste of money, anyway.

Firstly, I get rid of the 15% I am allowed to give away/gamble away. Then I buy a private island, then buy a nuke and blow the island away. By then I shouldn't have a lot of money left. I will then buy massive quantities of food which I then eat, or allow my friends to eat. I will then hire a personal trainer, which techincally doesn't count as an "assest", to work off the weight until I have no money left.

Invade a foreign country with mercenaries. Which one? Umm - er - Australia. Then I can sit on the beach and watch while my 100,000,000s worth of soldiers get their asses kicked.

Give it to the government, using the IRS tax form.

Buy 100,000,000 dollars worth of expensive stamps and send them all through the mail. Problem solved.

Give it to random Congressmen in return for renaming a few national landmarks. I really don't care what is renamed or who it is renamed after, but I'd love to see the Washington monument renamed the Big Ass Pointy Thing.

Seems like a good waste of money, anyway.

But you'd have to account for it. And no congresscritter would accept a bribe if it had to be down on paper.

Where to lose a 100M? Easy, start a company. Don't insure it. Put GW Bush or a former Enron exec in charge. Watch it go down in flames.

Where to lose a 100M? Easy, start a company. Don't insure it. Put GW Bush or a former Enron exec in charge. Watch it go down in flames.

Yes you would lose the money, but the records would show that you made a 300% profit on each week. :p

I'd do what Richard Pryor did with the stamp in the movie; I'd just use more stamps.

Buy a theam park, then explosives. Next, (well, you get the picture)....

But you'd have to account for it. And no congresscritter would accept a bribe if it had to be down on paper.

Where to lose a 100M? Easy, start a company. Don't insure it. Put GW Bush or a former Enron exec in charge. Watch it go down in flames.

Put it down on paper? My plan is just to leave a suitcase full of money in their offices with a copy of the Big Ass Pointy Thing (BAPT) bill on top. No paper trail, just a mysterious suitcase full of money. Besides, Abramoff is proof that Congress people take any kind of money, even with paper trails.

Yes you would lose the money, but the records would show that you made a 300% profit on each week. :p

Oh, that. Easy, make records of the cooked books and send it to the IRS. The CEO goes to jail, and you end up penniless.

Put it down on paper? My plan is just to leave a suitcase full of money in their offices with a copy of the Big Ass Pointy Thing (BAPT) bill on top. No paper trail, just a mysterious suitcase full of money.

Yeah, but the condition is that your spending of the money must be accounted for. So that means your ledgers would be full of "Money dumped" entries. And that would disqualify you since it would count as giving money away.

Oh, that. Easy, make records of the cooked books and send it to the IRS. The CEO goes to jail, and you end up penniless.

Remember you only have 30 days to lose this money, not 3 years.

I would buy a herd of emu, equip them with head-lasers, and invade south america.


I would then leave and release them in Australia. I would give w/e percentage i could to the guns and dope party.


ahhhhhhhhh... money...

Chuck E. Cheeses. I WILL win that stupid game this time...
1,000,000 ticket prize here I come. And it would all be won with the *hit the button when the light gets between the arches* game.

I would buy a herd of emu, equip them with head-lasers, and invade south america.


I would then leave and release them in Australia. I would give w/e percentage i could to the guns and dope party.


ahhhhhhhhh... money...

Naaaah...You should take over Austrailia, then just give the territory to me as part of my Antartic Empire. Did I mention funding my Antartic Empire?

Many of you might be familiar with the 1985 film starring Richard Pryor, but did you know that it's one of the most filmed movies ever?

It's the fifth movie with that title: There were Brewster's Millions movies made in 1914, 1921, 1935 and 1945. There was also 'Miss Brewster's Millions' made in 1926 and a movie based on the same premise called 'Three on a Spree' made in 1961.

History Lesson over. The real question is this:

If you had to spend $100,000,000 dollars in 30 days in order to earn your real inheritance of $1 Billion how would you do it?

There are, of course, some rules:

You can have no assets of worth after 30 days. Just the clothes you started with.
You can give no more than 5% to friends, 5% to charity and gamble no more than 5%.
You cannot tell anybody.
Every single penny must be accounted for.
You can't destroy any.


How would you do it?

Easy: I would buy the Atlanta Braves for $100 million and sell it back to Ted Turner for $1 then give the $1 to a homeless person.

Of course since the Braves suck would he buy it back for a buck? (I'm from Atlanta so i'm hurting)

Throw huge parties, all at the same time, in NYC, Philadelphia, Miami, LA, New Orleans, and have them free for the public. Tell them it's my birthday, and no gifts are wanted. Buy the most expensive booze, hire the most over rated music stars, enough weed to last 100,000 people 100 years, and give it away to people who will make it go byebye very quick.

Give 5% to family, 5% to charity, and enter a poker tour with 5%, which I will lose in a matter of five minutes because I don't play poker.

Then with the rest, spend it on bread and just let the bread decompose over the 30 days.

Remember you only have 30 days to lose this money, not 3 years.

Well, if that's the case, give the job to GW Bush then. He'll burn it plenty quick although none of the crap will stick to him.

You could always buy stocks in companies who are obviously going to fuck up.

You could always buy stocks in companies who are obviously going to fuck up.
But, but, but, the bread would be much more fun.

Many of you might be familiar with the 1985 film starring Richard Pryor, but did you know that it's one of the most filmed movies ever?

[QUOTE=Lunatic Goofballs]It's the fifth movie with that title: There were Brewster's Millions movies made in 1914, 1921, 1935 and 1945. There was also 'Miss Brewster's Millions' made in 1926 and a movie based on the same premise called 'Three on a Spree' made in 1961.

I love that movie, and knew it was a remake, but I didn't know how many times. Cool! :cool: In fact, I some times run a variant of this in my ESL classes as a game (usually for practicing various forms of conditionals).

You can't destroy any(thing).

People, you're forgetting this part - it means no blowinmg up the island, theme park, etc. and no crashing the plane.

How would you do it?

As you might guess I've thought about this before. Some of my plans should go through the 100 million in less than a month.

My favorite plan is the huge party. Note that this plan could easily go over 100 million.

Rent a hotel. Pay out all the current guests and guests who have reservations to make other arrangements for next Saturday night. Hire a top decorator and crew at premium prices to redecorate the hotel (paying the hotel a bonus to allow this).

Invite how many ever friends I can have flown in from around the world. Hire private jets to bring my friends over and return them.

Hire 5 top bands that have gigs Saturday night and pay them out to them cancel their plans, have them flown in same way as above. Also pay them a bonus if they'll perform an original song just for the party. Pay them a further bonus to keep the song rights but never play the song again or record it. Hire other assorted top class performers under essentially the same conditions.

Hire caterers from various countries and have them flown in same way as above. Also give them a generous budget (I'd say unlimited, but I do want to have money for the other stuff).

And hire all the people to get this done while I take a quick vacation.

[QUOTE=Lunatic Goofballs]Many of you might be familiar with the 1985 film starring Richard Pryor, but did you know that it's one of the most filmed movies ever?



I love that movie, and knew it was a remake, but I didn't know how many times. Cool! :cool: In fact, I some times run a variant of this in my ESL classes as a game (usually for practicing various forms of conditionals).



People, you're forgetting this part - it means no blowinmg up the island, theme park, etc. and no crashing the plane.



As you might guess I've thought about this before. Some of my plans should go through the 100 million in less than a month.

My favorite plan is the huge party. Note that this plan could easily go over 100 million.

Rent a hotel. Pay out all the current guests and guests who have reservations to make other arrangements for next Saturday night. Hire a top decorator and crew at premium prices to redecorate the hotel (paying the hotel a bonus to allow this).

Invite how many ever friends I can have flown in from around the world. Hire private jets to bring my friends over and return them.

Hire 5 top bands that have gigs Saturday night and pay them out to them cancel their plans, have them flown in same way as above. Also pay them a bonus if they'll perform an original song just for the party. Pay them a further bonus to keep the song rights but never play the song again or record it. Hire other assorted top class performers under essentially the same conditions.

Hire caterers from various countries and have them flown in same way as above. Also give them a generous budget (I'd say unlimited, but I do want to have money for the other stuff).

And hire all the people to get this done while I take a quick vacation.

Yes my plan is very similar: Woodstock 3. But with free admission, food and drink. :)

Many of you might be familiar with the 1985 film starring Richard Pryor, but did you know that it's one of the most filmed movies ever?

It's the fifth movie with that title: There were Brewster's Millions movies made in 1914, 1921, 1935 and 1945. There was also 'Miss Brewster's Millions' made in 1926 and a movie based on the same premise called 'Three on a Spree' made in 1961.

History Lesson over. The real question is this:

If you had to spend $100,000,000 dollars in 30 days in order to earn your real inheritance of $1 Billion how would you do it?

There are, of course, some rules:

You can have no assets of worth after 30 days. Just the clothes you started with.
You can give no more than 5% to friends, 5% to charity and gamble no more than 5%.
You cannot tell anybody.
Every single penny must be accounted for.
You can't destroy any.


How would you do it?
"none of the above!"


ah i love that movie so much :)

Plan B:

Help all those poor Nigerians who need to transfer money!

$100,000,000 gone in about three days. It is not a gift, nor is it charity. I wuz ripped off, honest.

"none of the above!"


ah i love that movie so much :)

One of my favorite line during that electon was when he was walking down the courthouse steps explaining to a reporter:

Monty: "I called them(the other mayor candidates) a couple of 'overgrown wharf rats' and I had to pay them 2 million dollars because of the emotional damage I inflicted."

Reporter:"What do you think of them now?"

MOnty: "I think they're slime!"

Pay $100,000,000 to a lab to synthesise several grams of a radioactive element with a very short half-life...

It'll decay into something completely useless in a couple of days at most.

I think I should slander any socially prominent group - and plead guilty to libel!

One of my favorite line during that electon was when he was walking down the courthouse steps explaining to a reporter:

Monty: "I called them(the other mayor candidates) a couple of 'overgrown wharf rats' and I had to pay them 2 million dollars because of the emotional damage I inflicted."

Reporter:"What do you think of them now?"

MOnty: "I think they're slime!"
:p i remember! and richard pryor was so good in the role... must get it on dvd asap :)

all i can hear in my head now is pryor saying "asshole" in his oh-so stylistically way :P

Just say something remotely negative about Scientology.

I'm sure they'll find a way to relieve you of your burdonsome monies.... :D

Just say something remotely negative about Scientology.

I'm sure they'll find a way to relieve you of your burdonsome monies.... :D

*nods* that oughta do the trick.

I'd spend it all on renting a lot of incredibly expensive things/people.

Problem solved.

Other plans:

Software 1: Rent the best most expensive office space and equipment. Rent several as many super computers as you can. Hire as many programmers as you can get your paws on. Provide them with whatever "toys" they need" and tell them to write whatever cool software they want. Also hire lawyers - preferably several of the most expensive law firms around to make sure that all of the software is legally public domain and open source. Make sure that you have the rights to none of it.

Software 2: Same as above, but make sure the programmers retain the rights.

Lobbying 1: Hire a top law firm to draft a law that my birthday be declared a national holiday. Pay lobbying firms to lobby for it. Offer a huge bonus if the bill reaches the floor of the senate and house in under a week.

Lobbying 2: Same as above, but for a serious law I support.

Advertising Campaign 1: Buy as many full page ads as possible on as short notice as possible. Run no ads. Pay a bonus to any media outlet that will run without any ads at all - bigger if the run just blank space.

Advertising Campaign 1: Hire an ad firm to put together an ad campaign. Advertise something or other - me, my birthday, NationStates, whatever.

Rent the biggest library I can find for a month. Pay a staff to read all the books. Sit around and read, surf the net, etc.

And one special just for the NSers: Pay one million dollars each for the first 100 players who put "I like ice cream" in their sigs.

I'd probably begin by setting up some of the most high-tech labs in the world (all with rented facilities and equipment.) I'd have those labs focus for the duration of the time allowed on finding "cures" for cancer, aids, etc. Since it is highly unlikely ANYTHING would be accomplished in a month (or what was left after setting up the lab) I would not end up with a cure or anything of "value".

If there was anything left I'd probably throw some pretty lavish parties. Maybe rent out Neverland. You KNOW Jacko wants the money. I could go through it pretty fast if I had to.

Of course, at the end of the time, I could take the labs that looked the most promising and keep them open using a portion of the true interitance/prize.

Just say something remotely negative about Scientology.

I'm sure they'll find a way to relieve you of your burdonsome monies.... :D
Or you can just join.

[QUOTE=Daistallia 2104]

Yes my plan is very similar: Woodstock 3. But with free admission, food and drink. :)

NS Get together party!

If you paid someone to teach you something, could the argument be made that the knowledge has value?

How would you do it?

i would buy a huge ocean liner or a jumbo jet, not insure it, then have an awesome party involving every kind of drug and alcohol i can get my hands on plus hire several bands/djs of my choice. then after the party has finished i would drop off the guests and bands/djs and crash the thing into something big and solid like a mountain or an underwater volcanoe. then i would pay for a salvage operation to recover the scrap metal and give it all to some people in a shanty town somewhere so they can build extensions on their shacks.

EDIT: bugger, i forgot the 'cannot destroy anything' bit. well, i know, i'll give the boat or plane to a scrap merchant and they can destroy it. none of my friends are scrap merchants and i shouldn't think that a boat or plane would be worth more than 5% of their price new as scrap.

Hmm... I have a couple of ideas.

1) Find a mediumish volatile company in a volatile market. Leak that someone intends to buy $100 million worth of stock in a few hours. Then buy as much stock as possible at the highly inflated price, whilst accounting for any taxes I may have to pay. Announce the next day that I wish to sell all of my stock, wait for a few hours and then sell at rock bottom prices, and pay any tax I may have to pay.

What I have left should amount to less that $15million which I can give and gamble away.

2) Commission a worldwide TV advertisting campaign about the greeness of grass, with a strict condition that the campaign must be ready in a couple of days. The copyright probably won't belong to me and the actual value of tapes of the advertisement should amount to a lot less $10 million which can be safely given away.

3) order about 2000 pay-as-you-go phones and hire 2000 people, at $10/hr, to take one each, get it registered for international roaming, fly to Diego Garcia, then call premium rate numbers in a number of different countries, get them to report on the services they used and email their reports to me. The reports would then be deleted (note that nothing is actually being distroyed, just changed). Each employee would recieve the phone they used as a gift. Thus all the money would be used up. This model assumes that employes will be paid for 40 hours work each week, and that each person would have to spend $50k each within the month and that they are projected to spend that in about 2 weeks.

4) Hire two agents to go to Christie's and bid for a certain item. Though they would not know about each other, but would bid against each other up to the value of $100 million. The item would then be donated to someone.

5) Same as the stock market option, but with repeated buying and selling of large quantities of oil.

6)Enrol for 2,000 university courses in the US and pay in advance (assuming annual foreign students fees are $50k.

However, depending how seriously you take these rules then the task could become completely impossible. If nothing of value can be distroyed then you cannot buy and food or drink out of your $100 million budget.

'You cannot tell anyone' Tell them what? That I have money I want to spend? If so how will I engage in a transaction?

flight into space

and if i have money left over, go on a really expensive cruise and fly around the world in only the most expensive first class i can find