# What would you do for $1.000.000.00?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 14, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081 "2007-05-14T19:40:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/1 "2007-05-14T19:40:39Z")
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).😃 I
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### Author:  [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/2 "2007-05-14T19:43:55Z")
Nothing illegal or amoral. However, make that $100 million and well…
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/3 "2007-05-14T19:44:32Z")
A teaspoon? Is that all? And that second thing, well some people would _pay_ for that.
You don’t sound very motivated.
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### Author:  [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/4 "2007-05-14T19:49:31Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole]
A teaspoon? Is that all? And that second thing, well some people would _pay_ for that.
You don’t sound very motivated.
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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.
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/5 "2007-05-14T20:29:06Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/6 "2007-05-14T20:36:13Z")
Bea Arthur.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/7 "2007-05-14T20:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Bea Arthur.
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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.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/8 "2007-05-14T20:53:43Z")
A million dollars? I’d do pretty much anything or anyone for a million dollars. I have no standards. 😉
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### Author:  [@Your\_Ad\_Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Ad_Here)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/9 "2007-05-14T20:56:31Z")
I’d buy your love.
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/10 "2007-05-14T21:24:43Z")
I’d do a Klondike Bar.
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/11 "2007-05-14T21:28:33Z")
What if the Klondike bar is doing you?
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### Author:  [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/12 "2007-05-14T22:04:10Z")
[QUOTE=Your Ad Here]
I’d buy your love.
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Thanks, but I’m not gay. 🙂
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/13 "2007-05-14T22:29:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/14 "2007-05-14T22:36:02Z")
[QUOTE=Your Ad Here]
I’d buy your love.
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How about a fur coat? But not a real fur coat, that’s cruel.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/15 "2007-05-14T22:43:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/16 "2007-05-14T22:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan]
A million dollars? I’d do pretty much anything or anyone for a million dollars. I have no standards. 😉
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I’m trying to think of what I wouldn’t do…
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/17 "2007-05-14T22:49:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/18 "2007-05-14T22:49:55Z")
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.)
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/19 "2007-05-14T22:54:03Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-for-1-000-000-00/404081/20 "2007-05-14T23:30:25Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
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…
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Work for 50 decades? :eek:
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