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24 hours to spend ONE MILLION BUCKS.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Northern VA - Just outside DC
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OK, just for fun...
1. Spend a Million Dollars in ONE DAY.
2. All sales must be final, so no real estate type things that can't be finalized THAT DAY.
3. No dumping bucks such as paying someone $100K for a tricycle or something.
4. No Hiring someone to carry your stuff or whatever.
you must physically HAVE the items in your posession, NOT in the mail, or delivery truck.
I'd buy jewery, and Big ticket home entertainment stuff, like esoteric 300 watt per channel power amps, Used cars, like BMW's, and also I'd buy a big truck to haul big furniture and artwork back to my house.
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Professional Poster
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I'd buy a nice collection of Ferraris, then I'd buy a crapload of electronics and go home and play games where I drove Ferraris.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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What's the problem, just go to a car dealership, any dealership at that, and buy their lot.
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Location: Anson, TX
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apple store shopping spree and cars...
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Mac Elite
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Donate to charity whatever was left...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by legacyb4
Donate to charity whatever was left...
Uhm, I don't think so.
Originally Posted by Y3a
3. No dumping bucks ...
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Addicted to MacNN  Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Cooperstown '09
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Rickey Henderson baseball cards.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Rickey Henderson baseball cards.
Why stop at just the card? You can probably pay to have him appear at your birthday party and do magic tricks. Just make sure that you're careful, he has the tendency to steal stuff when you're not looking.
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Addicted to MacNN
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I would spend the money in seconds: a Concours quality 1971 Ferrari Daytona convertible.
After which I would probably lose my license in nearly the same amount of time.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London, UK
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iMac, Intel Core-Duo 2GHz, 2GB, 250GB, OS X 10.4
PowerBook 12", 867MHz, 640MB, 60GB, OS X 10.4
iMac G3, 333MHz, 288MB, 6GB, OS X 10.3
iPods: 3G iPod, 1G mini, 1G shuffle, 2G nano
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I'd help out my new friend in Nigeria and be eligible for $millions more.
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
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"Two girls at once" - Lawrence
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Moved from Ohio's first capital to its current capital
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I'd buy an iceberg.
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Professional Poster
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Originally Posted by BlueSky
I'd help out my new friend in Nigeria and be eligible for $millions more.
A true model for all humans.
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Clinically Insane
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"Hello, is this the Aston Martin dealership?"
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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Professional Poster
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Location: Pretentiously Retired.
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Originally Posted by MacNStein
"Hello, is this the Aston Martin dealership?"
"Sorry sir, the machine gun option were part of the stunt car in the Bond movies. And they weren't even real."
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Originally Posted by keekeeree
I'd buy an iceberg.
thats what i was thinking
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I GOT WASTED WITH PHIL SHERRY!!!
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I guess I'd split it between GE, MSFT, HAL and AAPL and maybe a couple of BRK-A.
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Originally Posted by medicineman
I guess I'd split it between GE, MSFT, HAL and AAPL and maybe a couple of BRK-A.
Do you really think MSFT is going to perform like the others?
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Originally Posted by Dork.
Do you really think MSFT is going to perform like the others?
I think MSFT will be around for a while. I'm not sure what form it will be in. It may go the way of GM or F, or it may morph into something else. I'd still bet on it.
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I was wondering when someone would bring up Brewster's Millions...
I'd have a heck of a shopping spree at an Apple store, buy a car for me and my wife, pay off my house, buy my best friend a Harley and pay off what he owes on his bar/liquor license.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Originally Posted by Dakar
"Sorry sir, the machine gun option were part of the stunt car in the Bond movies. And they weren't even real."
"But for that much money, we'd be happy to modify it for you."
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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Professional Poster
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Location: Pretentiously Retired.
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Originally Posted by MacNStein
"But for that much money, we'd be happy to modify it for you."
"And by happy to modify, we mean, wait here while we call the cops."
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I'd drop 500k on a Cirrus airplane. Then I'd fly to NYC and go on a shopping spree. The Apple Store SoHo would be my first stop. Hmm, looks like I still have some money left over. Where is the nicest place I could stay at for the night?
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by Dakar
"And by happy to modify, we mean, wait here while we call the cops."
"Because they'll think it's just as awesome as you do. But, you'll probably have to take them for a ride so they can blow sh*t up."
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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Originally Posted by MacNStein
"Because they'll think it's just as awesome as you do. But, you'll probably have to take them for a ride so they can blow sh*t up."
"Of course, they might get bored with inanimate objects, and then figure out they can keep the car and spill some blood by using you."
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by Dakar
"Of course, they might get bored with inanimate objects, and then figure out they can keep the car and spill some blood by using you."
"But then again, you donate >$2500 /yr to the FOP, and buy the beer for their cookouts. They'll probably stick to shooting livestock and Liberuls."
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- Thomas Paine
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Originally Posted by MacNStein
"But then again, you donate >$2500 /yr to the FOP, and buy the beer for their cookouts. They'll probably stick to shooting livestock and Liberuls."
"Of course, they're not very discerning. Since you live with two women, they'll probably take you for a hippy and... 'bang bang'.
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Originally Posted by keekeeree
Just how much is Richard Pryor going for nowadays?
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Mac Elite
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Travel, jewelry, cars, electronics.
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only the essentials monique?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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1) Decent car (100,000-200,000)
2) Drive to nearest place that sells gold / silver / platinum
3) Buy as much as I have money left to do so, minus about 100 for gas back to my house
4) Play with my precious metals
5) The next day, sell them back, at a loss sadly
6) Drive with nice car to bank(s) (each will only insure about 250,000)
7) Enjoy the interest pay-outs, don't touch the 800-900k
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yep.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Pretty easy for me. I live next to a Harley, Toyota, and Lamborghini dealership.
I dislike Harleys and Lamborghinis, but I could just sell them later. 
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Originally Posted by Dork.
Why stop at just the card? You can probably pay to have him appear at your birthday party and do magic tricks. Just make sure that you're careful, he has the tendency to steal stuff when you're not looking.
He charges over $1m for special tricks...sorry!
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expensive painting at an auction.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 46 & 2
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Originally Posted by Dakar
"Of course, they're not very discerning. Since you live with two women, they'll probably take you for a hippy and... 'bang bang'.
"But then, that would never happen, especially when the only comments the cops have ever made about them are, 'you're my hero', 'can I be your disciple', and 'tell me how you talked them into it'."
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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Originally Posted by MacNStein
"But then, that would never happen, especially when the only comments the cops have ever made about them are, 'you're my hero', 'can I be your disciple', and 'tell me how you talked them into it'."
"Then again, the car does provide an excellent opportunity to get you 'out of the way' so they might assume your place."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Utah
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A single PS3. At it's $600 price point it feels like a million bucks.
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Work: 2008 8x3.2 MacPro, 8800GT, 16GB ram, zillions of HDs. (video editing)
Home: 2008 24" 2.8 iMac, 2TB Int, 4GB ram.
Road: 2009 13" 2.26 Macbook Pro, 8GB ram & 640GB WD blue internal
Retired to BOINC only: My trusty never-gonna-die 12" iBook G4 1.25
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Location: Smallish town in Ohio
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For starters:
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Originally Posted by macintologist
For starters:
*snip*
It's a good thing you got that USB modem!
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well i'd buy an island, but that's against the rules, so i would buy 2 million rubber balls and put them all in a gigantic swimming pool
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It's not hard to spend that kind of money if you're a coin collector. This one is worth $1.4 million:
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Originally Posted by itai195
It's not hard to spend that kind of money if you're a coin collector. This one is worth $1.4 million:
Liar...it's worth 20 dollars...says so right on the coin. Think you can fool us. 
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Nu uh!
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Two Mac Pros with two 30" displays would be a good place to start...
Apple Spree - Two 24" iMacs, Two 15" MBP (one for the wife), two 24" iMacs, two 80 GB iPods, two Nanos, two Shuffles, loads of software...
- Pay cash for that $400,000 house a few miles away from my church
- Pay off wife's car (sell it later) and buy her dream Lexus
- Every Star Trek DVD set and all the other DVD sets I've wanted
- 50" HDTV
- XBox 360 (why not?)
- 30 year membership at the country club where I can only afford to play golf at every few months
- New golf clubs, shoes, and other equipment
- $100,000 tithes to my church (I'm a good little Christian boy)
I have no idea how much I'd have left, but I'm sure I could think of ways to spend it.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by itai195
It's not hard to spend that kind of money if you're a coin collector. This one is worth $1.4 million:
How about the Saint from 1933? That one's pretty cheap too.
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Yeah chump change, what was it? $7.5m?
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ferrari 599 and the ultimate cross country road trip/bender.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: 1 Infinite Loop
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A 2005 BMW M3, A few old Macs, Xbox 360, a few plasmas, and some JL Audio speakers.
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I'd buy $1 million in gold bullion.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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