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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:25 PM
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OK, If I win the lottery, who needs what?
The Big game is $370 million too one winner ($157 million after taxes if cash optioned) or $10.6 million per year for 26 years after taxes.


That's a lot of money. :party:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:27 PM
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1. I could use a more economical car!
:hi:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:28 PM
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2. How about a Prius?
Done!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:29 PM
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3. Kewl!
:yourock:

What do you need when I happen to win?
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:32 PM
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6. Enough money to pay for some medical issues
No health insurance. Tough when you are 56.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:33 PM
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7. Sure thing!
Your wish is my command!
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:31 PM
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4. I am poor, but I have health care..
Give proper health care to people that need it.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:33 PM
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8. I would, have a few ideas about doing that
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:31 PM
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5. I could use a new driver's window & cable for my car, so I can get it inspected!
:hi: & good luck!
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:34 PM
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10. How about a good used car instead?
One that makes you happy?
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:38 PM
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12. Thanks, but just the window is fine, I'm happy with my 50cc scooter! There are
others out there that are really needy :)
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:40 PM
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13. And I would do my best to make sure the money got to them
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:34 PM
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9. lots of beef jerky and drink mixes sent to the troops
and shoes, toys and clothes to needy children
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:35 PM
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11. Got a few millon already checked off for the troops
and a few ideas about taking care of the little children
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:46 PM
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14. I need $400 million. But I'll let you start with the 370 and owe me 30.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:53 PM
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16. HAHAHAHAHAHA
no
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 04:54 PM
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44. Hmmph! I'm taking my business elsewhere! You just lost a good customer!
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:52 PM
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15. I picked up my tickies 2 hours ago
If I win, I'm takin' everybody to Costa Rica. :party: :smoke:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:56 PM
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17. This




'n' this:







'n' this:







(Not the Camaro, a fully-equipped shop.)



Thanks. :7

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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:57 PM
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18. Done
How big is the shop, 30X30?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:05 AM
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22. Yeah, I think that'd work
Important part's the gear: lift, hoist, parts washer, glass beader, air compressor...









Damn, the stuff I could do. :bounce:

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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:08 AM
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25. Press, bender, lots of tools, welders, media blaster for sheetmetal
engine stands and lifts, trans jack, did I miss anything?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:39 AM
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27. I didn't even think about metalwork
But, what the hell? I could learn to weld and to work sheet metal, huh? :7

Oh, snap! Then I could make the short-bed El Camino I've been dreamin' about! :bounce:



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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-06-07 11:58 PM
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19. did ya win? cause i didn't
:cry:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:01 AM
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20. I won't check till tomorrow
I want to dream a little longer
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:02 AM
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21. lol, well i wont ruin it for you, but let us know
:hi:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:06 AM
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23. Everyone who asked to this point
gets. But now I go to bed for a bit. If I won when I wake up, boy even Skinner is going to be very happy! Those in severe need would get too.

Be well.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:08 AM
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24. sleep well
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:10 AM
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26. i just have one credit card---please
pay it off---4k, thanks ever so much;):blush:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:49 AM
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28. A bathroom fix-up...
Edited on Wed Mar-07-07 12:50 AM by GoddessOfGuinness
Really desperately. And if you're feeling extra generous, we need a kitchen remodeling, too. :hi:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:55 PM
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29. I'm sorry, I didn't win (sniff sniff) but I'll put you all on my Xmas list
so that if I do win by the end of the year, I can send Santa over.:silly:
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 12:59 PM
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30. well, maybe one of us will win with the next 400 million pot
sigh
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:09 PM
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31. My car believes I have money
the wiring harness in the front needs replaced. About $500. I just put a transmission in it last August. :(

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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:11 PM
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32. Oops
I didn't see the post that you didn't win.

:hug:

Maybe next time?
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:37 PM
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37. I saved this thread to my journal
I won't forget:hug:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:34 PM
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34. HAHHAHAHA What a great line!
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:36 PM
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36. You mean you don't know?
Never, ever discuss money in front of the car, the pets or major appliances. They get together and decide who has to die (in the case of appliances) or come up with some bizarre symptoms (in the case of the pets). My ex and I used to go clear to the back of the property outside to talk about money.

In this particular case, because we drive *past* a bank, the car believes that the money on deposit there it mine. :(

;)
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:38 PM
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38. OMG best laugh of the month, thank you
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:41 PM
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39. My pleasure!
:)


:hi:

Just passing on the wisdom of my *ahem* many years.

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distonworker Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:12 PM
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33. down on taxes
I don't like giving the US any money whatsoever. It goes to
helping the military kill more people. For that reason, I
don't gamble.

My cousin won 2 million. He paid almost E1,300,000 to the
government. Was that a bummer. That would be a blackhawk
helicopter that could kill 10,000 people.

If you don't play, you can't help in this obscene war. 

spare me the pain.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 01:36 PM
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35. Sorry, it gives one an opportunity to help someone they would not
have been able to, And I think the money goes for roads, schools, and peace.:patriot:
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 02:04 PM
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40. Pay off my student loans?
*begs*
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 04:23 PM
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41. I'd like to pay off
my student loans and cc's before I entered the Peace Corps.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 05:18 PM
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46. That's well worth it
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 04:25 PM
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42. Pay off the mortage on our house
Would you pop for 50K?
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 04:27 PM
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43. Here's my list
A Pitts Special or well restored P-51 (hell, why not both?)

A '59 Gibson Les Paul I prefer the butterscotch "glow" finish

Triumph Rocket and a BMW K1200 Tourer.

There are a lot of other things I'd like, but I don't want to seem greedy.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 05:03 PM
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45. The BMW maybe, but the Pitts or P51, uh no.
If you had said my mortgage or credit card debt, sure. Or that special operation of xourse.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-08-07 11:18 AM
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48. Hey, if it's the Pitts....I'd give you a free ride in it, honest
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-08-07 11:31 AM
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49. Wait, I'll by it and give YOU the ride, hahahahaha
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elfrangel Donating Member (661 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 06:48 PM
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47. A new car would be nice...
not really picky, but it does need to be 4x4 or AWD. I live in an area with lots of mountains and lots of ice....

But, I'll take anything really. :)
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