640 effing million

playthrough · Mar 31, 2012

jr/shotglass said:

I just figured out what would happen if I won 640 effing million.

My brain would be so wracked with confusion over the odds against having won 640 effing million -- I mean, it's like 800 times more than being murdered -- that I simply wouldn't be able to handle it, I'd pop my aorta, and everyone else would get to share all that nice money.
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We were discussing at work last night the lump sum vs. annual payments and all agreed that we wouldn't live to see the last few annual payments.

Shoeless Joe · Mar 31, 2012

Dick Whitman said:

One of my friends in high school's parents won the lottery when she was a little girl. I think they won $2 million, and lived in a fairly small but comfortable duplex in our town, which was/is a pretty lower to lower middle class town. She had a new car, about the only person I knew with one, but I think that had as much to do with her step dad being a doctor as with the lottery. She would tell us that they weren't anywhere close to "rich" from the lottery, though she did have her entire education handled, both an expensive undergraduate school and an expensive law school (not sure how much she got in scholarships as she's a smarty - valedictorian.)
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If I had $2 million free and clear I would retire today at age 40. You should be be able to make about 5% on that, which would be $100,000 per year. I don't make $100,000 working every day of my life right now, so I'd be ahead. Actually, I wouldn't even have to make the 100k and still live as well as I do now. We don't have any kids to leave it to, considering life expectancy, minimal interest plus dipping into the $2 million would see me through.

txsportsscribe · Mar 31, 2012

i fear that doodah won and his first purchase will be SportsJournalists.com

Bubbler · Mar 31, 2012

playthrough said:

jr/shotglass said:

I just figured out what would happen if I won 640 effing million.

My brain would be so wracked with confusion over the odds against having won 640 effing million -- I mean, it's like 800 times more than being murdered -- that I simply wouldn't be able to handle it, I'd pop my aorta, and everyone else would get to share all that nice money.
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We were discussing at work last night the lump sum vs. annual payments and all agreed that we wouldn't live to see the last few annual payments.
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Not to mention that you don't know what's going to happen in the future. Say the country goes broke and the apparatus to pay no longer exists? Say there's a war and half the country is wiped out?

If I take the lum sump, it's all good. I'll be in my Superman ice lair with my rotating bed and roomful of disco dancers.

Dick Whitman · Mar 31, 2012

Shoeless Joe said:

Dick Whitman said:

One of my friends in high school's parents won the lottery when she was a little girl. I think they won $2 million, and lived in a fairly small but comfortable duplex in our town, which was/is a pretty lower to lower middle class town. She had a new car, about the only person I knew with one, but I think that had as much to do with her step dad being a doctor as with the lottery. She would tell us that they weren't anywhere close to "rich" from the lottery, though she did have her entire education handled, both an expensive undergraduate school and an expensive law school (not sure how much she got in scholarships as she's a smarty - valedictorian.)
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If I had $2 million free and clear I would retire today at age 40. You should be be able to make about 5% on that, which would be $100,000 per year. I don't make $100,000 working every day of my life right now, so I'd be ahead. Actually, I wouldn't even have to make the 100k and still live as well as I do now. We don't have any kids to leave it to, considering life expectancy, minimal interest plus dipping into the $2 million would see me through.
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I don't think she had the lump sum option back then. I remember her telling us that once you take taxes out, then spread it over 20 years or whatever it was, you couldn't retire or anything like that.

Batman · Mar 31, 2012

Stitch said:

Batman said:

Stitch said:

A couple of my Facebook friends posted this as a reason to end SNAP, because few open abusing the system should be a reason to end it, right?
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Isn't that why roughly 90 percent of laws are proposed and passed? Ninety-nine out of 100 people will never rob a liquor store, but we still have laws against it.
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A more apt comparison is shutting own a liquor store because it is a target for robbers. Nothing wrong in punishing frauds terms, but shutting down SNAP because of fraud?
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Cities do that all the time, too. There's plenty of places (nightclubs, liquor stores, convenience stores) that tend to attract trouble and have been legislated out of business by enacting ordinances regarding their operation.

deskslave · Mar 31, 2012

Stitch said:

Dick Whitman said:

One of my friends in high school's parents won the lottery when she was a little girl. I think they won $2 million, and lived in a fairly small but comfortable duplex in our town, which was/is a pretty lower to lower middle class town. She had a new car, about the only person I knew with one, but I think that had as much to do with her step dad being a doctor as with the lottery. She would tell us that they weren't anywhere close to "rich" from the lottery, though she did have her entire education handled, both an expensive undergraduate school and an expensive law school (not sure how much she got in scholarships as she's a smarty - valedictorian.)
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We had family friends win a Porsche from a radio station when I was a kid. I think thy ad trouble paying taxes on it and a few months after they got the car, an "accident" or someone driving drunk put the car in a canal.
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My stepdad won some Bahamas vacation or something from a radio station. They blacked out so many weekends that the prize expired before he could ever use it ... and then they tried to send him a tax bill. He was having none of that.

Armchair_QB · Mar 31, 2012

Bubbler said:

playthrough said:

jr/shotglass said:

I just figured out what would happen if I won 640 effing million.

My brain would be so wracked with confusion over the odds against having won 640 effing million -- I mean, it's like 800 times more than being murdered -- that I simply wouldn't be able to handle it, I'd pop my aorta, and everyone else would get to share all that nice money.
Click to expand...

We were discussing at work last night the lump sum vs. annual payments and all agreed that we wouldn't live to see the last few annual payments.
Click to expand...

Not to mention that you don't know what's going to happen in the future. Say the country goes broke and the apparatus to pay no longer exists? Say there's a war and half the country is wiped out?

If I take the lum sump, it's all good. I'll be in my Superman ice lair with my rotating bed and roomful of disco dancers.
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Cape or no cape?

dooley_womack1 · Mar 31, 2012

Bubbler said:

playthrough said:

jr/shotglass said:

I just figured out what would happen if I won 640 effing million.

My brain would be so wracked with confusion over the odds against having won 640 effing million -- I mean, it's like 800 times more than being murdered -- that I simply wouldn't be able to handle it, I'd pop my aorta, and everyone else would get to share all that nice money.
Click to expand...

We were discussing at work last night the lump sum vs. annual payments and all agreed that we wouldn't live to see the last few annual payments.
Click to expand...

Not to mention that you don't know what's going to happen in the future. Say the country goes broke and the apparatus to pay no longer exists? Say there's a war and half the country is wiped out?

If I take the lum sump, it's all good. I'll be in my Superman ice lair with my rotating bed and roomful of disco dancers.
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You gonna Superman that 'ho?

Versatile · Apr 1, 2012

Bubbler said:

playthrough said:

jr/shotglass said:

I just figured out what would happen if I won 640 effing million.

My brain would be so wracked with confusion over the odds against having won 640 effing million -- I mean, it's like 800 times more than being murdered -- that I simply wouldn't be able to handle it, I'd pop my aorta, and everyone else would get to share all that nice money.
Click to expand...

We were discussing at work last night the lump sum vs. annual payments and all agreed that we wouldn't live to see the last few annual payments.
Click to expand...

Not to mention that you don't know what's going to happen in the future. Say the country goes broke and the apparatus to pay no longer exists? Say there's a war and half the country is wiped out?

If I take the lum sump, it's all good. I'll be in my Superman ice lair with my rotating bed and roomful of disco dancers.
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I like that you used the noun form, roomful, in this case. The difference, of course, is that a roomful of disco dancers is a theoretical quantity that doesn't vary based on the size of the room. I'm wondering how many disco dancers would qualify as a roomful.

Drip · Apr 1, 2012

I've wanted to break this news to my friends at SportsJournalists.com first. I have turned in my resignation at my current gig and with good reason. I AM PART OF A GROUP THAT PURCHASED ONE OF THE THREE WINNING TICKETS.

Drip · Apr 1, 2012

Drip said:

I've wanted to break this news to my friends at SportsJournalists.com first. I have turned in my resignation at my current gig and with good reason. I AM PART OF A GROUP THAT PURCHASED ONE OF THE THREE WINNING TICKETS.
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Happy April Fool's Day!!!!

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