$425,000,000! What would you do?

[rightwinger26]

I'd pay every social media site to refuse to give Donald Trump an account, that way none of us have to listen to one of his pointless, childish, hey look at me rants ever again. I like to think I'm a man of the people with my winnings.

[geebert]

Do the usual pay all the bills, etc.... They buy everything to have some model company to make a perfectly scaled A-1E Skyraider and other popular subjects.

[Diamondback Six]

Bearing in mind that you lose half IMMEDIATELY in taxes, and even on annuity payout's the whole tab's due up-front?

Before I so much as scratch my butt I'm calling my financial advisor to see if tax-deferred annuities can let me defer payments until I actually GET my money... then invest it for growth, gradually withdrawing enough to buy a decent house, finish my education up to PhD level, then slowly buy a well-stocked gun collection and workbench. Maybe a country house, self-sufficient and completely outfitted to survive COMWEC, but somehow enough urban access to keep my tall curvy redhead satisfied since she's too much a born-and-bred city girl to go fully off-grid.

From there, contributions to various historical trusts and libertarian think-tanks. Maybe buy a politician or two, LOL... once I have enough in the warchest, become to libertarians and conservatives what George Soros is to Commies and Comsymp socialists.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Diamondback Six

[Daryl J.]

Pay for some of Airfix' tooling.

Tour Svalbard in a Citroen 2CV.

[Diamondback Six]

Which reminds me... offer a zero-interest loan to the first company that'll tool an F-106 (both A and B versions, all possible variations) to modern Tamiya/Hasegawa/Academy/Kinetic standards, with at least one boxing for the 318th FIS required.

[ChippyWho]

As Spike Milligan once put it, "...they say money can't buy happiness. I'd like a chance to prove it."

[rightwinger26]

They say money doesn't buy happiness, but it will buy a wave runner, and have you ever seen anyone frown on a wave runner?

[Yannis Thomas]

Can i play from Greece???

This money can give everyone a better life, for sure. When thinking of such money, i also think of charity as well. Supposely, i would buy a house, a car and some other stuff for me and after that i would probably give a big ammount to charity organizations, such as cancer aid, orphanages etc.

[geebert]

Anybody can play, as long as you buy the tickets here at a participating state lottery outlet

[rightwinger26]

I would by the frachise rights to all the Got Talent shows, put the "judges" on stage, and hire random joes on the street to see if the talent judges acutally have talent. I'm pretty positive Howard Stern wouldn't make it past round 1. Then hopefully, the talentless annoying reality of the reality shows will become apparent, then we will never have to suffer through them again. And while I'm on this soap box, I would pay to stop sending Survivor contests to places where people already live and survive, its time we get to see "Survivor:Drifting Raft". If we do send them to populated areas, lets see "Survivor:South Central"

[Jay Chladek]

Here's a thought... pay enough to Intrepid to get shuttle Enterprise off the deck of their ship and into a decent museum located in the midwestern United States (safely tucked inside a building). Of course, I would probably also have to fund the construction of a new wing for that museum, but it is MY dream afterall.

[ian_maw]

Here's a thought... pay enough to Intrepid to get shuttle Enterprise off the deck of their ship and into a decent museum located in the midwestern United States (safely tucked inside a building). Of course, I would probably also have to fund the construction of a new wing for that museum, but it is MY dream af

Or.......... replace the full size shuttle mock-up in the Kansas Cosmosphere with it! (already enough room obviously)

[Jay Chladek]

Or.......... replace the full size shuttle mock-up in the Kansas Cosmosphere with it! (already enough room obviously)

That mockup isn't a full one though, just most of a fuselage and one wing. Nawww, Cosmosphere has too much other good stuff already. Personally I was thinking the Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland, NE myself (big enough to house without chopping a wing off, although it would need a new wing to house other aircraft that it currently doesn't have room to stick inside).

[hornet97]

First, buy a real F/A-18F then buy as many hasegawa f/a-18`s in 1/48th and build a 1/48th scale USS enterprise cvn-65 and buy a new house AKA an aircraft carrier full scale, then the rest to charity. :P

Edited November 27, 2012 by hornet97

[Diamondback Six]

Buying a real CH-53E and pair of F-15s and moving my Blackout, Skywarp and Thundercracker WHIFs from 1/48 to full-scale and airworthy DOES have a certain appeal... LOL