View Full Version : You got your Powerball yet?
Jonbo298
10-19-2005, 04:48 AM
Now that its over $340 million, anyone got their ticket(s) yet for Wed. night's drawing? ;)
Joeiss
10-19-2005, 10:06 AM
$340 American? Wow, that is a lot of money. What can one person do with all that? I would be so unimpressed if the winner didn't donate at least 40 million dollars to charities.
Dylflon
10-19-2005, 12:08 PM
I personally wouldn't want that much money. It would probably just make me unhappy.
Jonbo298
10-19-2005, 12:17 PM
$340 American? Wow, that is a lot of money. What can one person do with all that? I would be so unimpressed if the winner didn't donate at least 40 million dollars to charities.
Well, before taxes :p If you choose all at once its probably closer to $200mil
MuGen
10-19-2005, 01:37 PM
yeah taxes really hurt that amount right?
I mean... 200 mil is just too damn cheap..
Joeiss
10-19-2005, 02:35 PM
Okay, well if the person gets 200 million, I would be unimpressed if he/she didn't donate about 30 million of that... Because that is just a ridiculous amount of money, lol.
DimHalo
10-19-2005, 03:00 PM
What would you do with the money if you won it?
I would:
1. pay off all of my college loans
2. donate money to cancer research
3. buy a new car
4. get gifts for my friends and loved ones
5. get a sweet entertainment system
What would you do with the money if you won it?
I would:
1. pay off all of my college loans
2. donate money to cancer research
3. buy a new car
4. get gifts for my friends and loved ones
5. get a sweet entertainment system
What the hell jeepnut's slave. You managed to post my exact same list before I even typed it out.
That would be pretty awesome to have a balance of $15,000 on my University account.
And as for the cancer research thing, my annual run usually makes about a several hundred thousand. Now bump that up 30 million and we have a memorable run.
Joeiss
10-19-2005, 03:33 PM
I would by some property just outside of my university, and build a massive house, and have like 20 of my closest friends living there, free of charge of course. I would also go on a tour of the world, and go to historic war sites and classic rock sites. I would also have a bad ass gym in my new house, with no machines, only free weights.
I would also seriously look into many, many charities. If I had 200 Million in my pocket, I could guarantee that close to half of that amount would go to charities. Heck, maybe even more, who knows. I wouldn't really need all that money!
I would probably do the same things as that list...except where it says pay off college stuff, I'd put some away for it.
Krypton
10-19-2005, 03:41 PM
nope, too young, too bad, so sad. ;)
GameMaster
10-19-2005, 04:13 PM
I would spend it all on myself. I would begin by having a replica of Hearst castle built for me to live in. Then I would buy tons of merchandise and some really expensive vehicles. I would quit school and then live like Typhoid. He's independently wealthy and he's not obligated to ever work.
I would spend it all on myself. I would begin by having a replica of Hearst castle built for me to live in. Then I would buy tons of merchandise and some really expensive vehicles. I would quit school and then live like Typhoid. He's independently wealthy and he's not obligated to ever work.
Yeah, Typhoid has it made. He doesn't have to do anything...bastard.
DeathsHand
10-19-2005, 04:29 PM
yeah taxes really hurt that amount right?
Yeah, and $340 is what you get if you choose to receive it in... Either monthly or yearly payments over a large number of years...
Most people opt for the lump sum, which lowers the winnings a bit as well...
So you win less than $340, PLUS take away taxes, PLUS there's the possibility that there would be more than 1 winner, in which case they would split the jackpot...
.... But nah... I don't know if they have powerball in VA..... I know DC does, but that's aaallllll the way across the river...
Krypton
10-19-2005, 04:45 PM
I would spend it all on myself. I would begin by having a replica of Hearst castle built for me to live in. Then I would buy tons of merchandise and some really expensive vehicles. I would quit school and then live like Typhoid. He's independently wealthy and he's not obligated to ever work.
very well thought out, great job.
I just thought of a great idea if I won.
A GT convention! Paying for all the member, well active members to come to a convention!
Krypton
10-19-2005, 05:23 PM
whoa, that'd be AWESOME.
DeathsHand
10-19-2005, 05:37 PM
A GT convention! Paying for all the member, well active members to come to a convention!
Only active members? I wouldn't really call that a convention... What are there like 20? :>
If I won I'd probably buy our house (owned by my grandparents, will probably be sold when they die), and maybe another one out in the mountains somewhere...
Then instead of blowing it all on overpriced crap like pointlessly souped up cars, $100,000 spa treatments, and speech lessons to learn how to speak like a rich, pretentious bitch, I'd use the comically large financial cushion to ensure that I never have to actually work a day in my life, and other than that, live like a normal person...
Yup...
I'd say that I'd donate money to charity, but I probably wouldn't....
Krypton
10-19-2005, 06:09 PM
that'd still be cool.
Only active members? I wouldn't really call that a convention... What are there like 20? :>
Ok, a shindig.
Krypton
10-19-2005, 06:46 PM
lol, what is a shindig?
Typhoid
10-19-2005, 06:52 PM
lol, what is a shindig?
Oh god.
Anyways, I would buy an apartment downtown, I would buy stuff to put in it and all that jazz, buy my friends things, buy myself things, and basically just live off the rest and use it to live my life.
Sort of like I'm doing now.
Krypton
10-19-2005, 07:21 PM
super dooper. ;)
Jonbo298
10-19-2005, 07:55 PM
I'd donate my 30 million to the Democrats :p
Crash
10-19-2005, 08:33 PM
got my ticket:
09 33 38 41 44 pb:31
I I win, I will pay for the whole gametavern forum to go to E3 in may! We'll have gametavern t-shirts, and drive around in a limo all night.
Then I will build the gametavern store just like always. I'd give neo like $10,000 for back pay in server upkeep ... heh
Jonbo298
10-20-2005, 03:47 AM
No winner here. I knew that since all my powerball numbers (red ball) were randomly chosen below 20 it would comeback to haunt me and it did well =S
oh...
There was one winner in the state of Oregon for the last drawing's $ 340,000,000 grand prize!
ah well...another day
Happydude
10-20-2005, 03:56 AM
i would pay off all my debts and my parent's debts, and i would payoff my college education. then i would travel the world. then i would buy myself an awsome house with awesome electronics and make my house electronic. and buy a nice car and bike. and umm...buy presents for a lot of people. and the rest i would invest and live off the intrest.
I would make Typhoid my slave!
146 million to 1 of winning Powerball
3 million to 1 of freezing to death
2 million to 1 of being killed by falling out of bed
2 million to 1 of being killed by an animal
700,000 to 1 of being killed by fireworks
350,000 to 1 of being electrocuted
250,000 to 1 of dying in a plane crash
5,000 to 1 of dying in a car crash
GameMaster
10-20-2005, 05:16 PM
They should target gamblers by having lotteries for those choices of death, the odds are much better.
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