What if....

[Timmay]

you won the lottery.  What is the one most bizzare thing you would do?  I know we all will say pay off all the bills, take off on a world trip, take care of your parents and siblings and etc. 
But can you think of one of the most craziest things you would do?  Something that would make people look at each other and wonder why in the world would you do that?

I would probably buy out the Bosely Company.  I mean look at it, its a million dollar business.  Funny to see a bald guy as the CEO of a Hair Club for Men.  I would still be raking in the money.

But of course, I wouldnt forget you all.  Those on the West side of the country, your boat will be waiting for you to take you around to Miami where all of us East Coasters will be waiting for you on a chartered ship to take us all on trip you will never forget.  Dont worry about the two weeks you will be off work, I have your pay check waiting for you.  Welcome to Bosely!

[Mikekoz13]

Well this isn't crazy but a simple event in my life about 12 years ago made me promise myself to fix it if I ever could.

My son was 8 months old and had just been diagnosed with a very serious disorder. We were at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. That's the Hospital in this part of the country where you are sent when nobody else can fix you or knows what is wrong with you.
We had to stay three days at the Hospital while tests were run on our son. These were the worst days of my life. Over those three days I probably slept a total of 6 hours.
We were in a childrens ward and at night i would just walk the large circle around the nurses station continuously and slowly. Thinking about the horrible future the doctors had told us was awaiting our son.
The third night there I was sitting in a chair in my sons room at about 2 AM and i heard a small baby crying and crying. For minutes and minutes non-stop. So finally I got up, walked around past the nurses station, and to the room where a baby, about 3 months old, was crying uncontrollably.
I walked to the nurses station and asked where the baby's parents were.
"She doesn't have anybody", the nurse said.
"Nobody?", I asked.
She just shook her head no.
I said, "I'll hold her just to comfort her".
The nurse replied, "You can't, you're not family or staff".

I couldn't believe it. So I walked to the door way of that room and just looked at that poor baby still crying...... and I wept.
At that moment I was prabably as sad as I've ever been in my life..... and I promised myself that if i ever had the means, I would never let a young child feel so lonely ever again.

So...... I would take my winnings and reach out to children's Hospitals and provide 24 hour Nanny care FREE to the Hospitals. All salaries and benefits to be paid by me.

[Timmay]

ahhh dang it....now that makes me want to reconsider my plan.  Way to go Mike....thats awesome.

[GaryT]

Wow!! You're really over working the brain cells Tim!  I guess as far as I've ever thought of it was all the  things you listed.  Of course I'm fairly sure that I won't win....cuz I never have bought a ticket. I think that's how it starts!! :/OBut just off the top of  my head....I would buy a cabin in the back woods of Alaska, set it up to make it so that if I didn't want to deal with "the real world" I wouldn't have to. Ahhhhh I can just feel the relaxation. 

[buddha]

I told myself that if I ever won BIG in the lotto that I would do something that would seriously pi$$ off a few people.
What I decided on was that I would find an relatively rich community where I could purchase a large tract of land, say 50 to 100 acres. I would pay cash for the lot with the understanding that I was going to develop it into individual homesites with a 3-5 acre lot for each home. I would pay to have roads built, trees planted, state of the art sewer systems etc. I would put in all the amenities except for the houses themselves.
I would then donate the entire tract to Habitat for Humanity so that they could build a bunch of little blue houses for the working poor.
I venture to say that I would become somewhat unpopular after that.
Or not.

[schro]

Let's see:
1. I'd need to find a hobby b/c I'd be quitting my job ASAP. I'd probably learn all I could about brewing beer and open a brew pub.
2. Build a kick azz log cabin on my property at Agency Lake in Oregon
3. Buy a majority share in the Oakland Raiders and run them the way they should be run.
4. Go have a big plate of nachos.

[hammerdrill376]

1. Donate a large percentage of it to the Shriners Hospital

2.  Buy a seat on the space shuttle.

3. Take my wife on a one year round the world honeymoon.

4. By all my SLY bros shaving supplies for one year.

[GASlick]

I would buy one of those small islands in the Florida Keys. And of course have one big Sly Convention!

[Jer]

I would buy one of those small islands in the Florida Keys. And of course have one big Sly Convention!

Just how long of one would you be having?  I've got 6 months unpaid leave I can take left and easily get 2 or 3 months off during the cold Canadian Winter!

So I'm going to start praying that GA wins the lottery!!!

[The Scottish Ambassador]

Well this isn't crazy but a simple event in my life about 12 years ago made me promise myself to fix it if I ever could.

My son was 8 months old and had just been diagnosed with a very serious disorder. We were at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. That's the Hospital in this part of the country where you are sent when nobody else can fix you or knows what is wrong with you.
We had to stay three days at the Hospital while tests were run on our son. These were the worst days of my life. Over those three days I probably slept a total of 6 hours.
We were in a childrens ward and at night i would just walk the large circle around the nurses station continuously and slowly. Thinking about the horrible future the doctors had told us was awaiting our son.
The third night there I was sitting in a chair in my sons room at about 2 AM and i heard a small baby crying and crying. For minutes and minutes non-stop. So finally I got up, walked around past the nurses station, and to the room where a baby, about 3 months old, was crying uncontrollably.
I walked to the nurses station and asked where the baby's parents were.
"She doesn't have anybody", the nurse said.
"Nobody?", I asked.
She just shook her head no.
I said, "I'll hold her just to comfort her".
The nurse replied, "You can't, you're not family or staff".

I couldn't believe it. So I walked to the door way of that room and just looked at that poor baby still crying...... and I wept.
At that moment I was prabably as sad as I've ever been in my life..... and I promised myself that if i ever had the means, I would never let a young child feel so lonely ever again.

So...... I would take my winnings and reach out to children's Hospitals and provide 24 hour Nanny care FREE to the Hospitals. All salaries and benefits to be paid by me.

I was thinking of lots of selfish things I could do. And then I read Mike's thread. With you on this one Mike. We have CHAS (Childrens Hospice Association Scotland) for kids with terminal illnesses. Thats where mine would go

[Mike]

Originally I had a cool plan which I will share after this but then I read the one post and it made me feel bad. Going the nice route I would pay to keep the Shriners hospital alive in our area, they might be closing.

 Now for my other plan. I am really into Darwin and evolution and all that stuff right now so what I would do would be to buy a bunch of islands and populate them with domestics with no predators. For example I would take like 2 pair of every breed and color of chicken with various genes such as a pair of dominant whites a pair of recessive whites, a pair of blue based whites, all that and put them all onto a huge island and let them do whatever and every year I would come back or maybe several times a year just to check up on them and take notes. At the end of maybe 10 years I would see how much of a change there would be, would they all be uniform in type and color and how many throwbacks would there be and I would take a few breeding groups of birds back to the mainland so I wouldnt loose their genetics.
 The way I got the idea was when I was reading on the Oklahoma livestock breeds site at sheep and there was some island sheep that started off as Delaine Merinos which have some of the thickest and heaviest wool of the sheep breeds. They were left on an island and over like 10 years most of the sheep had started growing hair instead of wool and about 75% of them were black or brown. Now they are mostly black and have their own type which looks alot like a wild sheep. There are still a few throwbacks of white animals or ones with wool but not many. It would be cool to do it with cattle and see if I could get something that looks like an aurochs.

 Other than that I would give lots to 4-H and FFA and other youth groups as well as womens shelters and such. All of that of course after I have taken care of my loved ones.

[champ007]

I have always said if I win the lottery, and the news showed up and ask what I plan to do with the money,
I would look straight in the camera and say "Get Laid" !!
 

[Tyler]

I have always said if I win the lottery, and the news showed up and ask what I plan to do with the money,
I would look straight in the camera and say "Get Laid" !!
 

"You don't need a million dollars to do two chicks at the same time."

[Timmay]

I have always said if I win the lottery, and the news showed up and ask what I plan to do with the money,
I would look straight in the camera and say "Get Laid" !!
 

"You don't need a million dollars to do two chicks at the same time."

You havent met Champ yet then have you?  LOL

[GASlick]

I would buy one of those small islands in the Florida Keys. And of course have one big Sly Convention!

Just how long of one would you be having?  I've got 6 months unpaid leave I can take left and easily get 2 or 3 months off during the cold Canadian Winter!

So I'm going to start praying that GA wins the lottery!!!

It'll last as long as we need.  I own the island remember!