$40 Billion (with a B), what would you do? (Serious responses preferred)

[Mikeyis4dcats]

buy Bob Krause, make him clean toilets at BSFS.

[8manpick]

Melanoma research

Selfish

[Rage Against the McKee]

Buy the Royals and make Ron Prince manager.

[DQ12]

I'd buy out BIG SUNSCREEN and halt production just to thwart Bubs' efforts re. melanoma research.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I'd buy out BIG SUNSCREEN and halt production just to thwart Bubs' efforts re. melanoma research.

That would be fun, but I think it would be even more fun to fund research claiming that the tie between tanning and melanoma isn't real. People would go nuts.

[0.42]

-Drop the crap out of mortgage interest rates for internet and irl friend steve dave
-$1B to Texas State (50% sports 50% academics, on the condition that the current athletic director gets canned)
-$1B to KSU (50% sports 50% academics, on the condition that we somehow find a way to get #LIFE back on the roster)
-Vacation across Europe & Asia
-Probably a couple of nice (not opulent) houses in Austin and Wyoming and MHK
-Buy Everton, wreck the crap out of the EPL
-Probably buy off some local election somewhere and install pissclams as mayor/governor/supreme overlord whatever gocats thing
-Finally have a reason to go into the "New to Investing" thread
-Does Sharper Image still exist? Because oh man.

[Cartierfor3]

Buy Bonito Michoacan and eat all the tacos

[Panjandrum]

-Drop the crap out of mortgage interest rates for internet and irl friend steve dave
-$1B to Texas State (50% sports 50% academics, on the condition that the current athletic director gets canned)
-$1B to KSU (50% sports 50% academics, on the condition that we somehow find a way to get #LIFE back on the roster)
-Vacation across Europe & Asia
-Probably a couple of nice (not opulent) houses in Austin and Wyoming and MHK
-Buy Everton, wreck the crap out of the EPL
-Probably buy off some local election somewhere and install pissclams as mayor/governor/supreme overlord whatever gocats thing
-Finally have a reason to go into the "New to Investing" thread
-Does Sharper Image still exist? Because oh man.

"So, this blender plays a hologram of Hall and Oates singing, 'Adult Education', while blending stuff?"

"That's correct.  You can get it in several different..."

"I want all the blenders."

[kslim]

so many options, i would probably buy a nice plot of land with a awesome fishing/hunting/golf course area

buy ksu an indoor stadium (probably old stadium spot) so when its really cold out i can just say nope we are playing inside today if i wanted to

[wetwillie]

I'd write an annual check in the amount of 100,000 to 06wildcats in laws just to see how many ways they can come up with squandering it, 

[Gooch]

DNR. How long did it take Katdaddy to say two chicks at the same time?

[Saulbadguy]

Pudding. 40 billion dollars worth of pudding.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Is this before or after taxes?

[8manpick]

Is this before or after taxes?

Never stop being you

[06wildcat]

I'd write an annual check in the amount of 100,000 to 06wildcats in laws just to see how many ways they can come up with squandering it,

You're going to be pretty bored the other 51 weeks of the year then.

[ben ji]

buy huge amounts of land and exclude other humans from entering it.

i would probably buy a nice plot of land with a awesome fishing/hunting/golf course area

This.

A couple of square miles in the flint hills with access to the KS or Blue rivers and plenty of farm ponds. I'm not really a big hunter or golfer but why the hell not? I've got money to burn.

Would definitely own my own ski slope in the Rocky Mtns and invite everyone from gE out for an annual ski trip except forget to invite Asava because he couldnt be bothered to ski with me when I was a poor.

I'm thinking a decent sized island in the florida keys would be nice as well. I'd stash jetski's every quarter mile on the shore just in case I ever get the urge to shred some waves.

[Pete]

So, my wife was a social worker working really bad situation cases when she first got out of school, and they'd ask people what they would do if they won $10M...as some sort of exercise about your dreams in life or whatever.  And this one middle aged lady told her "I'd buy a double wide and a bowling alley."  She was dead rough ridin' serious.  That was as big as she could imagine.  Zero concept of what $10M really was.  Incredible.




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[sys]

Could you buy the entire state of Kansas for $40B?

at an average price of $1550/acre, you could buy ca. 25 million acres of kansas land.  kansas has ca. 53 million acres in total.

[Pete]

Could you buy the entire state of Kansas for $40B?

at an average price of $1550/acre, you could buy ca. 25 million acres of kansas land.  kansas has ca. 53 million acres in total.

Just buy up most of those crap counties that want to secede, and then really do it.   

OR, buy most of Cuba.  You already know Spanish.  That rough ridin' place is ripe for the picking.  There is nothing wrong with Fascism if you are the Fascist.  Being on the other side is the bad part.


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[EMAWmeister]

I'd buy Baylor

[Cartierfor3]

No offense to F14 or Carney Encore, but I'd have like Modest Mouse or something play Fatty Fest

[Asteriskhead]

No offense to F14 or Carney Encore, but I'd have like Modest Mouse or something play Fatty Fest

think bigger.

[Cartierfor3]

No offense to F14 or Carney Encore, but I'd have like Modest Mouse or something play Fatty Fest

think bigger.

Bone Thugs N Harmony

[EMAWmeister]

The Nappy Roots would play FATTYFEST for less than $5k

[Tobias]

I would hire Megadeth to play my graduation party next December and then throw a bunch of rotten tomatoes and heads of lettuce at them. Every one in attendance would be required to do so.

i would think we could pull together some scratch and do this anyways.  how much can that bad person cost nowadays?