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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida 
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What would you really do if you won the lottery? I would buy a tropical island, run around nude all the time, listening to music. I would own AOL. What would you do? Deb  |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
I'd set up a big non profit organization that would give out food, shelter, scholarships. hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Erin, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Mare |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Pay off bills and debts, clearing up my credit. Then I'd set aside monies in interest bearing accounts for select friends of mine, as well as buying a house for one in particular. Then, well, I'd buy me a pickup (pre-85) with a camper shell in back, and would drive around the country, with my bed and kitchen behind my seat.  Heh...I'd be so rich, I could afford to be poor. LOL |
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wandering glider Senior Member
since 2001-04-04
Posts 501aloft |
Are you kidding? Try to find that island, of course! \\ |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
I would buy you an Island err just kidding Kamla...heh There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
I would buy enough houses or land for my children/me to have as investments when they were older. I'd send my mother and on a world trip and send her especially to Ireland so she can go 'home' then dad to England for the same thing. I'd pay off all the bills of everyone in my family and send each of my brothers where ever they wanted to go. Then if there was enough money left, I'd buy myself a Lotus 'Elise' in that fast red (  ) or a XK 180 Jaguar or an XKR WITH the discount from Dad's friends. Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
I'd give it to my best friend for her to buy back her life with, and if there was any left, I'd either save it for University, or spend it on gifts for my mates, parents and myself.. depending on how much was left. Oh well, pity I never buy lotto tickets, eh? *sigh* “One word can be magical. Imagine then, the effect of several words, together..” |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
I'd save 3/4th's of it. put 50% of it saved in a bank account. put 25% of it in bonds. put 25% of it in IRA's. Then I'd spend the 1/4 on a nice house and a great jeep cherokee. |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
I'm glad you write so well, Dopey - 'cause you sure can't add. |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
LOL  Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
That island sounds better everyday. I seem to crave solitude, and a little sunshine.  So far most replies are WAY too practical. Good, but practical. How about some imagination here? btw~ Dopey, your intentions are good. Deb  |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
if it was powerball I WOULD RULE THE WORLD the part bill gates left for me |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
HEy haha!! .....*checks to see how he added wrong*.......hmmmm......I meant 50%, 25%, and 25% of the 3/4's taking out to save.... the left portion, being 1/4 which in itself is another 100% will be spent. I added right....I think  haha I never claimed to be good in math. I flunked Senior year math, I only passed cuz I convinced the teacher I'd be a brat in summer school and she might as well just let me go to college. haha |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Oh ok......and you want imagination Blooming? Well my answer above would be my REAL doing with the money, but lemme see with my imagination: -I'd buy a bunch of monkeys and buys a giant building. I'd put a sign out that says "Bank"....I'd let the monkeys be the bank tellers and let them run the bank. Id name it "What bankers REALLY do" - I'd buy the really obese people, the kind that can't get up and i'd sell them to the hungry people. That should give them innitiative to eat all the food I buy them. - I'd buy all the best guitar amps, tuners, strings, pics, cords, effects, pedals, and stuff and play in a rock band. - With my money i'd get power in the music industry.....I'd form my own record label. Sign a few people and have my own recording studio, but it'd be runned by Wallabee's. - I'd set up a "Save the Sloth" Foundation for those slow, cute things. - I'd parade around the world with a camera and make people do stupid, rediculous things for a few bucks. That's it for now. I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Dopey~ Lets hope you invest your money. Your imagination is real dopey. Deb |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
WHy thank you |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
Yeah, Dopey.. she means imaginative, as in that I would buy the Eiffel Tower and parachutte off the top, showering fake money to people below and watching them scrabble for it on the ground, just for the heck of it. Actually, I wouldn't do that.. BUT hey.. |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Dopey~ You are quite welcome Yu Lan~ How about some real money. Two goals in one. You get to jump, and give a little. I think I would NOT jump.  |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
hee hee...ok.... I would pay off my parents bills.... I would send my parents on a trip of a lifetime...anywhere they want to go.... I'd try to buy my way into meeting Prince I'd buy my friend Todd a ranch I'd set my kids' up for a comfortable life of no financial worries I'd get a house probably in Washington, on the coast, where it rains all the time....with a kabillion windows to see the ocean and rain all the time....*sigh* I'd have a roller skating rink in my house....( a total disco one)~no roller blades allowed! and a bowling alley.... I'd buy every cd I ever wanted I'd want to go to Italy..... I'd have a in home theater... I would go to a spa for a month...ahhhha.... I'd do something for battered women....something big.... and darn it...I'd get hair extensions...LOL |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
You made a good choice in location for what you want, but you may want to narrow it a bit further,, for instance using Seattle for a base ref: Annual rainfall total is about 37 inches ( far less than many might imagine) with a daily chance of rain being 42%. In the northern coastal town of Quillayute the annual rainfall total is almost 104" with the chance of rain on any given day being 58% ( sunshine % btw is only 32) farther south in Hoquium the total annual rainfall is 70". Here where I live we get a large amount of rain but fewer actual days of getting it. Did I mention it is still raining?...lol There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I would start a publishing company for new and emerging poets. . . Start scholarships at my high schools (yes, schools) for artists and writers. . . Work on making poetry a more accepted art form. . . workshops, readings, poet tours. . . Build the house of my dreams on Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Michigan. . . Do stuff for my family. . . and way more stuff that I can't even begin to list here. . . -------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
wow Jamie, great info to know..... I wish it would rain here...I am plugged into a thundering rainstorm cd right now, but out my window...it's about 90 degress....sad...very sad......I need rain.... |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I would buy a town and it would become the poetic capital of the universe. I'd sell 'Voices on the Web' and all the books we write. I'd have free workshop camps for kids who want to write and since the town will be out in the boonies, a lot of inner city kids would come there....I'd have one building with nothing but computers in it so everyone could be online or learn to use a computer....I'd have a parade every Saturday..a dance every Saturday night..and a huge town picnic every Sunday.... |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Sea~ you have a great imagination, and a really big heart. I like the idea of the bowling alley. What fun! Oh, and the house on the water...*sigh*. My dream too. Jamie~ Gee...a regular weather man here! ha! So what's my forcast? Ha! Dangerous question. Be nice.Sven~ Good ideas you have there! Poet~ Big heart. Too bad we can't make all our dreams come true. Oh well, dream on!  |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
I'd buy out Versace. Lovely clothing in there. I'd buy a house for the specific intention of beating to death when I was angry/upset/whatever with a baseball bat. It'd be filled with really expensive items and they would be smashed to hell. A jet would be bought and I'd go and see everyone in this place that I talk to and some that I even don't to say, "yes, I met you!" "Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." -- Robin Williams |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
backpack round the world buy a deserted island and hiberate there for ages |
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Allysa
since 1999-11-09
Posts 1952In an upside-down garden |
I'd co own Sven's publishing company and write a biography on Javie, called THE DOPEY LIFE. (the true story of a monkey butt) I'd publish all of my good poems. I'd make a book about each and every one of you, with your poems in it, and give you all the money made when they sold millions of copies. Then I'd buy a house, and a bunch of mood rings. Then I'd put myself through law school.  Someone once taught me that it doesn't matter what other people think of you as long as you like yourself. That's what I live by. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
I LIKE that Allysa.. those are good ideas.. hope you win lotto some time, I'd love to read that biography!!! Nothing in life, if you study it close enough, and long enough, makes sense. But only once you have understood why it doesn’t make sense, can you be s |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
if i had won the lottery id spoil my loved ones silly-till theyre screaming for me to stop buying them stuff. then id jet set around the world and spend time absolutely EVERYWHERE for at least two weeks then id come back home and buy an estate in rural Melbourne, Victoria and write about my travels. then id fly my cat in from Sydney and live with him till i die. the estate would be turned into an orphanage and run on the money i had left. Piece you life together and you WILL find holes. |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
Rural? No deary, you need to come and live in the city with me where we can stay up all night drinking and going generally nuts! lol I thought of some more stuff. That real estate thing got me thinking. I'd buy places in Italy, Ireland, Sydney (of course) and England. I'd probably move to Italy eventually. I'm a little teapot, short and stout! Here is my handle, here is my spout. *toot toot* |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
It's amazing how much everyone wants to travel! I say lets buy thousands of hot air balloons, each one with a poem posted  on it, and chase each other around the world!Hmmmmmmm... I wonder how difficult it would be to reply??? I can hear it now... {{{HEY! YOU OVER THERE,  I SAID I THINK YOUR POEM IS AMAZING}}}{{{HEY! NO THROWING DARTS}}} Deb |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
LOL @ deb....heheheh...so i guess this brand spankin new dart i bought will have to go back to the store huh? ok lizzyi change my mind ...melbourne city here i come!! Piece you life together and you WILL find holes. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I did WIN the lottery once. (I think it was fifty bucks...) and sigh...I gave half away to a good cause and bought groceries with the rest. |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
i won the on the scratchies on my 18th birthday...too bad it was only $5.....  Daffodils |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
I won $3.00 once. Deb |
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anonymousfemale Member Elite
since 2000-02-02
Posts 2797Limbo |
$2 here. I'm a little teapot, short and stout! Here is my handle, here is my spout. *toot toot* |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
I'd see that my children, nieces and nephew were assured fine educations and a modest start in life. Then I'd walk the earth spending the rest where I saw need. |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Anonoymouse~ I guess fate wins. RSWells~ Very honorable, and generous wishes. I think in reality I would likely take care of family first, but there is always a dream vacation in my mind. |
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
I'll buy planetickets to visit you all and after that I'll invite all of you to stay at my place, and I'll buy a farm for my sheep and finally getting this old farmhouse I live in rebuild and buy me a deep pool loaded with trout so I can fish the rest of my days and all my kinfolks may share. Darn I nearly made it for there is a lottery overhere going by postalstreetcodes and last week the big heap fell in a street in a nearby village. And there I saw on tv about 5 people I know by sight getting from 350.000 up till 2.000.000 Dutch guilders each ($100 is about Fl. 250) Sooooooo? Well I missed it, don't live in that village Titia A rose is a rose is a rose...I guess... |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Titia, Sometimes I am amazed at how our lives are so different when we are scattered in various parts of the world. You the Netherlands, me in Florida U.S.A. One thing we do have in common is the love of fishing! Do you have gators there? (Probably a dumb question.)  I like your goals should you win some money. Deb |
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