# Fifty Bucks
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 27, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557 "2001-11-27T18:55:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/21 "2001-11-27T20:21:21Z")
could this be an easier question?
shoes, Shoes, **SHOES**!!!
or, alternately
boots, Boots, **BOOTS**!!!
bella–who believes that, if you can see even a corner of your closet floor, you don’t have nearly enough shoes
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### Author:  [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/22 "2001-11-27T20:22:01Z")
A cheap hoo… Nah, just joking. A fifty buck Happy Hour with some friends sounds good.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/23 "2001-11-27T21:46:16Z")
Make a half-gallon of Moderator Margaritas!
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/24 "2001-11-27T21:59:01Z")
> [@](#):
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> So, the extra $30 would buy me a facial, then?
Nah, thats only an extra $20. But don’t forget the tip.
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/25 "2001-11-27T22:06:05Z")
50 bucks? Probably buy myself jeans then lunch at the mall and rent a movie… that leaves me with… -thinks- That covers it mostly though I may have to toss in another buck
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/26 "2001-11-27T22:11:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Omniscient \*
> \*\* But don’t forget the tip. \*\*
Not a problem. I’m a _very_ good tipper.
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### Author:  [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/27 "2001-11-27T22:21:58Z")
If you’d asked me this a couple of weeks ago, I’d have said “buy Europa Universalis 2”. Best strategy game of the year!
But I’ve already bought it, so the $50 would just go into the bank.
Or possibly treat myself to dinner at the Outback Steakhouse. 🙂
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/28 "2001-11-27T22:22:54Z")
Three words: Pair-a-Dice Casino, Peoria. 😃
$50 will get you […does math…] 333 spins of the reels at the nickel slots, and that’s using three at a time! 😃
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### Author:  [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/29 "2001-11-27T22:28:24Z")
Fifty bucks, let’s see…
That’s six and a quarter bottles of that pretty decent Wente Cabernet Sauvignon. Seven-point-two bottles of that plumb-y Fetzer Shiraz. Nine-point-five-two bottles of that slightly tannic, but generally good Barefoot Merlot. And a whopping eleven-point-seven-six grey bottles of that Forestville cabernet that melts the enemel from my teeth.
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### Author:  [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/30 "2001-11-27T22:41:01Z")
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/31 "2001-11-27T22:55:54Z")
[Two hunnert golf balls (295 off peak)](http://www.chelseapiers.com/gcrates.htm)
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### Author:  [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/32 "2001-11-27T23:07:52Z")
I’d use about $30 of it to pay the part of my car insurance bill that I still don’t have the money for. It’s a good thing my parents pay for it and then I pay them back, otherwise I’d be paying the less-forgiving insurance company late :o The other $20 would be spent on Christmas presents for my wonderful and understanding parents.
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### Author:  [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/33 "2001-11-27T23:08:56Z")
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> \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \*
> \*\*I’d probably spend it on E-bay, God I love that place. \*\*
I know, I already spent that imaginary fifty on eBay too many times.
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/34 "2001-11-27T23:09:47Z")
Deposit it so I’d have -$35 instead of -$85.
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### Author:  [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/35 "2001-11-27T23:51:49Z")
I’d spend $40 on groceries (that buys 2 weeks worth of food for me and my roommate) and then spend the other $10 on laundry. Yeah I’m poor.
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### Author:  [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/36 "2001-11-28T00:02:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Inky- \*
> \*\*And a whopping eleven-point-seven-six grey bottles of that Forestville cabernet that melts the enemel from my teeth. \*\*
Hey man, I live in Forestville…don’t go dissing our wine! Oh wait, it isn’t even made in Forestville, nevermind.
I would use the fifty bucks to pay the mechanic to fix the loose connection in my car that is making my headlights not work. I am too car-stupid to do it myself. Oh well, until that magically $50.00 appears I better get home before it gets dark.
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### Author:  [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/37 "2001-11-28T01:05:02Z")
Buy an ounce of [salvia](http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia_basics.shtml). Legal hallucinogenic goodness!
LC
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/38 "2001-11-28T01:32:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by belladonna \*
> \*\*could this be an easier question?
>
> shoes, Shoes, **SHOES**!!!
>
> or, alternately
>
> boots, Boots, **BOOTS**!!!
>
> bella–who believes that, if you can see even a corner of your closet floor, you don’t have nearly enough shoes \*\*
Come on now. $50 is really only half a shoe. But that’s what I would buy too. 🙂 (Well, I’d get the whole pair and just supplement the other $150)
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### Author:  [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/39 "2001-11-28T01:40:22Z")
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> \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \*
> \*\*
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> Come on now. $50 is really only half a shoe. But that’s what I would buy too. 🙂 (Well, I’d get the whole pair and just supplement the other $150) \*\*
ars
You spend $200 for a pair of shoes!? You do realize that they go on your feet and the ground and such, right?😉
Of course, this is coming from a girl who does most of her shoe shopping at Payless.
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### Author:  [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-bucks/95557/40 "2001-11-28T01:47:50Z")
Five bottles of wine at ten dollars a bottle. Three red, any kind, two white, any kind, as long as none of it’s sweet. (I’d love to get _ten_ bottles of wine at _five_ dollars a bottle, but it ain’t worth the hangover!)
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