I'd spend it all on cosmetic surgery for myself because I've always wanted to look like Brian Blessed. The remaining £2.50 would go to St Winifred's Home for Decrepit Geologists.
I bought a ticket, but I didn't win. I'm very disappointed.
If I had won it, I would have bought a nice (but not too large) house in Kenilworth, payed off my student loan and finished my degree living comfortably. I might even have bought a small three bedroomed house in Harborne and lived there during the week, then once I'd finished my degree I could rent it as student accomodation and make some money that way, which I could invest in clever-money-investing-type-things for my children.
Oh, and I'd go to Disney World in Florida for my holidays. Every year. Twice next year, so I could go in the Summer and at Christmas.
I'd also feel obliged to buy my parents and brother new houses and cars. And probably take them to Florida too. Because I'm nice like that.
once I'd finished my degree I could rent it as student accomodation and make some money that way, which I could invest in clever-money-investing-type-things for my children.
Trust me, if you'd won the jackpot, you wouldn't really need to invest.
The Irish woman who won £77million is getting £6000 a day in interest, so on the £100million jackpot you'd be looking at about £8000 a day which works out at just under £3million a year in interest alone!
As for me, I'd buy a couple of houses for us and I'd give £1million to each close family member.
Oh, I know I wouldn't have to invest the money, but I'm one of those people who'd work even if I won the lottery, because I'd want something to do that meant I would be meeting people and stuff. So doing up houses and playing landlord would be fun. Besides, all my tenants would love me, because they'd get ace houses at fairly cheap prices, since I wouldn't be worried about making a profit!
I've put another ticket on for this week. Can't hurt, can it really?
Sadly not going to happen though as I don't play the lottery...
Well it might be worth considering 'cause the jackpot's rolled over again this week
~Jenny~
You know, I was going to as well. But I forgot. I do occasionally feel "lucky" and have a go, I never get any numbers naturally. It then takes approximately six months before I forget the annoyance of not winning and succumb to buying another ticket. But hey, you never know do you?!?
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"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
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Fri, 02/10/2006 - 14:32
Dan Luna Rank: Calcite Joined: 17/04/2005 Points: 209
I've got a Leica Apo televid 77 that I can read the label on a fertilizer bucket with at a distance of a mile. Probably not suitable for your astronomy but brilliant for bird watching (no jokes please).
Gus
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Tue, 02/14/2006 - 08:36
Dan Luna Rank: Calcite Joined: 17/04/2005 Points: 209
Done that Dan. It was, as you say, very impressive. Trouble with me is that I don't know what else I'm looking at when I point it at the sky. I've got a Norton Star Atlas but I still have problems. I'm going to have to stick to bird watching.
Gus
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Wed, 02/15/2006 - 08:04
Dan Luna Rank: Calcite Joined: 17/04/2005 Points: 209
I didn't get far with those star thingies either, not that you can see many through the orange glare, so I just look at the Moon now and again then match up what I've seen with atlases. Sometimes I attempt to look up strange birds we've seen on a walk, but it's not often I find them in Cassell's "Natural History" or Goldsmith's "Earth and Animated Nature". :oops:
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Spend it
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What? All of it?
~Jenny~
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Every last penny
Geologists are gneiss!!
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OK then, what would you spend it on?
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I would buy a house in a dark part of the country and an observatory. 8)
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And maybe This Moon Book
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I'd spend it all on cosmetic surgery for myself because I've always wanted to look like Brian Blessed. The remaining £2.50 would go to St Winifred's Home for Decrepit Geologists.
Gus
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I bought a ticket, but I didn't win. I'm very disappointed.
If I had won it, I would have bought a nice (but not too large) house in Kenilworth, payed off my student loan and finished my degree living comfortably. I might even have bought a small three bedroomed house in Harborne and lived there during the week, then once I'd finished my degree I could rent it as student accomodation and make some money that way, which I could invest in clever-money-investing-type-things for my children.
Oh, and I'd go to Disney World in Florida for my holidays. Every year. Twice next year, so I could go in the Summer and at Christmas.
I'd also feel obliged to buy my parents and brother new houses and cars. And probably take them to Florida too. Because I'm nice like that.
I'm a proud Trowels & Hammers member!
Are you?
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I'd donate copiously to my local Geological Society and make it the best one in the world.
I'd go to all those interesting places I've always wanted to go...the Wallcott Quarry, Yellowstone National Park etc.
I'd set up my own Geological Institute - "GeoBen" We put the FUN into Geology! (And take the p*&s out of Creationists)
I'd have a huge fishtank installed in my house.
Lastly, I might let the missus hire that housekeeper she's always wanted...
Ben.
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once I'd finished my degree I could rent it as student accomodation and make some money that way, which I could invest in clever-money-investing-type-things for my children.
Trust me, if you'd won the jackpot, you wouldn't really need to invest.
The Irish woman who won £77million is getting £6000 a day in interest, so on the £100million jackpot you'd be looking at about £8000 a day which works out at just under £3million a year in interest alone!
As for me, I'd buy a couple of houses for us and I'd give £1million to each close family member.
btw, I didn't win
~Jenny~
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And maybe This Moon Book
Now that's an expensive book!
I can't even begin to imagine what I would spend it on. I'd start by buying a lovely big house though
Sadly not going to happen though as I don't play the lottery...
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
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Sadly not going to happen though as I don't play the lottery...
Well it might be worth considering 'cause the jackpot's rolled over again this week
~Jenny~
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Oh, I know I wouldn't have to invest the money, but I'm one of those people who'd work even if I won the lottery, because I'd want something to do that meant I would be meeting people and stuff. So doing up houses and playing landlord would be fun. Besides, all my tenants would love me, because they'd get ace houses at fairly cheap prices, since I wouldn't be worried about making a profit!
I've put another ticket on for this week. Can't hurt, can it really?
I'm a proud Trowels & Hammers member!
Are you?
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Sadly not going to happen though as I don't play the lottery...
Well it might be worth considering 'cause the jackpot's rolled over again this week
~Jenny~
You know, I was going to as well. But I forgot. I do occasionally feel "lucky" and have a go, I never get any numbers naturally. It then takes approximately six months before I forget the annoyance of not winning and succumb to buying another ticket. But hey, you never know do you?!?
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
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Bah, I bought a telescope that was supposed to be able to see a pound coin a mile away, but it never has. :x
Don't ask me - I wouldn't know a maar from a hole in the ground.
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Dan
I've got a Leica Apo televid 77 that I can read the label on a fertilizer bucket with at a distance of a mile. Probably not suitable for your astronomy but brilliant for bird watching (no jokes please).
Gus
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That is a serious scope Gus. I think you would be very impressed if you pointed it at the Moon sometime. 8)
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Done that Dan. It was, as you say, very impressive. Trouble with me is that I don't know what else I'm looking at when I point it at the sky. I've got a Norton Star Atlas but I still have problems. I'm going to have to stick to bird watching.
Gus
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I didn't get far with those star thingies either, not that you can see many through the orange glare, so I just look at the Moon now and again then match up what I've seen with atlases. Sometimes I attempt to look up strange birds we've seen on a walk, but it's not often I find them in Cassell's "Natural History" or Goldsmith's "Earth and Animated Nature". :oops:
Don't ask me - I wouldn't know a maar from a hole in the ground.
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I've got a Meade LX10 that can read small things from long distances too though doing headstands to make sense of it all is a drag
Keef
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I used to be so narrow-minded I could look through a telescope with both eyes.
Gus