If an old eccentric billionaire offered to pay you one-million-dollars in cold cash (after taxes), what would be the most outlandish and/or difficult thing you’d be willing to do for it?
As for myself, I’d be willing to go on national TV and try and swallow (and keep down) one tea spoon of Listerine. Or, if not that, I’d be willing to let Stefanie Powers walk on my back in stillettoes (while wearing a black push-up bra and panties with a garter belt).
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Nothing illegal or amoral. However, make that $100 million and well…
A teaspoon? Is that all? And that second thing, well some people would pay for that.
You don’t sound very motivated.
If you’ve ever accidentally swallowed Listerine, you’d know that a tea spoon would probably kill you, or wish’d it had.
Yes, I suppose some people would pay for Stefanie to do that. I’d do the Listerine and then call her, assuming I survived.
Listerine? That’s weak. Some people used to chug that for a cheap buzz.
A hearty bowl of New England clam chowder and some creamed corn on the side, chased with a tincture of ipecac. That’ll get the party started.
Me? I’d go on public television and kiss Anne Coulter full on the lips. No tongue, though. I have standards.
Bea Arthur.
I was just going to say ‘any woman’. But that is pretty good too…although she is (to some degree) a gay icon so I’m not sure if that would count for me.
A million dollars? I’d do pretty much anything or anyone for a million dollars. I have no standards. 
I’d buy your love.
I’d do a Klondike Bar.
What if the Klondike bar is doing you?
Thanks, but I’m not gay. 
Well, there was a time when thinking of what you’d do for a million dollars was quite a mental excercise. Now, what with gajillions of people doing the most horrible/painful/embarassing things for a fraction of that amount (or for free publicity), it just makes me sigh and move on.
Anyway, over the course of my my worklife, I’ve probably made a million dollars, much of it sweating TPS report covers and the like; so I reckon what I’d do for a million is what I’ve already done: work 20 years; spending 8 hours a day bored shitless and wishing I was somewhere else. Maybe the folks who swallow centipedes for it have the right idea after all.
How about a fur coat? But not a real fur coat, that’s cruel.
Hmmm… give birth to a kid and raise it. But only if I got to pick the father. I’m assuming, however, this eccentric billionaire is a long lost great-uncle who wants me to carry on the family name, not an old prev.
I’m trying to think of what I wouldn’t do…
Aside from hurting a loved one, I can’t think of much I woudln’t do for a million dollars. That’s a lot of money, despite those that are going to say it isn’t. 1 million dollars, post-tax, would put me up quite nicely for pretty much all my life.
I probably swallow a teaspoon of Listerine a day, easy. I gargle with the stuff three times a day, so I have to be swallowing some.
For a million, tax-free…I’d vote Republican in the next election. (They’re gonna lose bad, so my vote won’t matter much.)
A million dollars? That’s barely £500,000. That wouldn’t even buy a decent house round here. So what would I do for it? Work for a decade or so, I guess.
Make it $50 million and I might do something outlandish…
Work for 50 decades? :eek: