You come into a huge fortune. What frivious thing do you buy?

In My Humble Opinion
41

On that note, I’d start funding an Avro Arrowrestoration project.

Oh yeah - that’s a good one.

We would also start building our “See ya, civilization!” compound in the Canadian wilderness. We have all kinds of ongoing plans for it.

42

List of frivious things I’d buy:

A 100-acre tulgey wood
A pet frumious bandersnatch
A vorpal blade that goes snicker-snack

43

I would hire my favorite musician to do a private concert with a setlist supplied by me.

44

A Jay Leno-esque garage of really kick ass cars. And a full time mechanic to maintain them. And my own insurance company so I could have cheap rates on all my cars!

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A couple hundred acres with a “normal” size house, don’t need a mcmansion. The greyhounds, horses, and I could go on some super outings everyday. Plus a custom RV and driver to take the dogs and me to the dog shows. My friends and their dogs could visit both the house and the RV at the shows. Total relaxation…

46

I would go further, and offer patronage to mine.

47

A fully reconditioned antique sock knitting machine.

48

A grotto. All Playboy and stuff. A pool with a waterfall and a grotto underneath. And probably while I’m at it, a swim-up bar/blackjack table. And maybe at the top of that waterfall, it would be a hot tub that overflows to become the waterfall…

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Most of my house would be normal, but I want a nice, big space to entertain my friends. Wet bar, dance floor, sound system to rival a dance club, etc. I’ve already got an HD projector, so… I’d want a better one.

I also need a go kart track and about 8 shifter karts in the back yard.

50

I would paint the exterior of my house madras plaid. Just for the summer of course. The house needs new siding anyway, so paint it up for shock value and then replace the siding in the autumn. Then sell the place and move the heck out of suburbia.

I think it would be good to remind neighbors that homes don’t have to be beige or taupe.

51

A private railway car.

Also, I’d probably get involved in sports car racing (“How do you make a small fortune in racing? Start with a large one”).

52

We’ve totally got a grotto in the plans for the Compound.

Which term do you prefer, Beigeburbia or UTaupe-Ia? :smiley:

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Who’s that?

54

Indoor pool.

vacation home in SF

spare cars

55

I’d upgrade my wife to an 18 year old version…

56

I want a meditation chamber that is built to look like the Emperor’s Throne Room from Return of the Jedi.

And parked outside, a full scale Speeder Bike.

57

I want a giraffe.

58

I’d like a Mustang, not one of those new fangled Fords. I want a classic ,a North American
P-51D. And a B-17 to go with it.

59

A Tesla.

I don’t actually want the roadster – I’m not that great a driver – but I want a Model S.

Only I want it in brass and glass and woodgrain. I want a steampunk Tesla.

60

I’d buy the Dope. Make a few staff and policy changes. Such as:

  1. People that post recipes for stuff that sounds good have to make it, and send me some.

  2. Rule 1 applies double for cookies.

  3. The Current Pit is eliminated. Instead, we’ll have The Steel Cage forum. You wanna throw down? Fine. But you’re gonna really throw down. In a cage. And the event will be youtubed for all to see.

  4. Admin Control Panel (or whatever they call it on this software) will be upgraded to include a vuvuzela button, accessible only by me. Piss me off, and you get 10d6 minutes of that horrible sound blasting from your speakers. There is also a timer. Once imposed, the punishment will begin when the offender clicks in order a randomly generated pattern of numbers. If he doesn’t click the right number at the right time, then the timer resets. The only way to remove or disable the buzzing is to sit there and suffer for the entire 10d6 minutes.

  5. Skald gets his own forum, and sole power to grant or deny access thereto. He can post anywhere else he wants, of course, but in his forum, he’s the boss.

  6. Gfactor is hereby employed as board law talking guy, with Bricker as his deputy. They get to defend any lawsuits arising out of the vuvuzela button in paragraph 4. They will do so by asserting the arbitration and choice of law clauses in the revised user agreement they drafted. Guess who’s current secretary will be the sole arbiter of all disputes? And, if the arbitration clause is held uneforcable, they can try the cases in the character of any pokemon character Bricker’s kid wants. I got a hundred mill drawing more in interest than the first thousand plaintiffs could hope to win.

  7. If Opal wants, she can request I give people up to three minutes of vuvuzela button for doing that Hi Opal thing.

  8. Hal Briston can do the same for people making sheep jokes.

  9. Senor Beef ain’t gonna like the new College Football Forum, because all SEC news, scores, updates, and discussion will be stickied, and stuff for the lesser conferences will start on about page 3.

  10. Any self-identified Notre Dame fan is subject to random intervals of vuvuzela button, because I despise Notre Dame.
    Yeah, I’ll be buying an island and suitably fortifying same, of course. I’m just not telling most of you where it’ll be.