If I was a Billionaire.

[Emher]

I'd travel LOTS!

I'd build a nice house on the coast with a big kitchen, huge movie room and garage.

I'd fill that garage with assorted nice cars, starting with a new Chevrolet Camaro SS, a Dodge Challenger SRT8, a 2008 Bullitt Mustang, and a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T.

I'd give a few million each to my family.

I'd go to the US and make my combined documentary project/road trip.

Seeing as I have loads of money I'd take a few years off to focus on getting into shape.

I'd pay off my debts.

 

[CaptainStoner]

I think you'd come up a bit short on that one.

A Billion?

A Billionaire doesn't mean you only have 1 Billion pounds and besides that I said you have 999 Billion pounds and every day you earn another 999 Billion pounds. In other words you own Infinity Billion Pounds.

Well in that case, I'd put humanity on Trial for being a brutish, uncivilized child race.

 

[Kryton]

Cue Q, next in the queue.

 

[Venardhi]

Build a working full-size replica of the Highwind.

Buy Fox and burn it to the ground, then build a new entertainment empire with standards.

Buy an island nation somewhere nice, start my own space program and import all the best scientists from around the world to take me to Mars (AND BEYOND!)

Have a herem.

Fund all the good stuff like feeding people and getting rid of cancer and AIDS and fail.

Have an orchestra and choir constantly filling my palacial estate with video game music.

Pay some crazy scientists to genetically engineer real-life pokemon.

Carve my initials in the moon.

occasionally give random people on the street a million dollars.

Did I mention the herem will have clones of the hottest women to ever live? I'm going to have like 15 Audrey Hepburns.

 

[sbk1234]

As for the other stuff...

Bloody vengence on all who ever crossed me!

Lots of travel.
A series of houses in different parts of the world. Each house would have its own theme, such as the Hobbit hole, the spaceship, Camelot, the pirate ship, etc.
A pet killer whale in a fucking humungous tank.
Lifetime admission to every Disney theme park with a "jump to the head of the line" clause.
Throw out all of my alarm clocks.
A shitload of money into medical research.
Buy a bunch of rainforest, and other natural land for non-development.

The best damn, most creative, obnoxious resignation from work that I can imagine!
(The sad part is, I really do like my job!)

More to come based on my imagination and mood.

 

[sbk1234]

A Billionaire doesn't mean you only have 1 Billion pounds and besides that I said you have 999 Billion pounds and every day you earn another 999 Billion pounds. In other words you own Infinity Billion Pounds.

Wait a minute. I was doing this in dollars. What's the exchange rate? Is 999 Billion pounds more or less than 999 Billion dollars. Do I have more or less than I thought? Is 999 Billion pounds a lot?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I would build new football stadiums for the 49ers, Chargers, Vikings, and whatever team L.A. might like to form; also new baseball parks for the A's, Rays and Blue Jays.

Oh, and this. Just so that ugly piece of shit RFK Stadium can finally be bulldozed to the ground.

And I would arrange for every major city to get a full spectrum of mass transit options. Subways, light rail...you name it, I will have it built. I'll make it unnecessary to have cars.

 

[wamdue]

^ considering that, its being built for MLS that is a pretty decent sized stadium

your very geneours with your money Babaganoosh I hope you plan to take some of the profits out of these projects?

 

[DragonLady]

I would have a nice mansion on the beach with 50 acres around it, patrolled by armed guards.

I would do two guys at once - as often as I wanted.

In fact, I would be surrounded by good looking guys - butler, masseuse, armed guards, court jester, whoever else I can think of - who would definitely be sexually harassed. That would just be the way I would roll.

I would fund my own political party - any one taking money from special interests (other than me) would be shot.

I would turn my favorite small market major league baseball team into a large market team - just to piss off the Yankees, who I would beat mercilessly every year.

I would own a professional football team, just to hang out with the tight ends in the locker room whenever I wanted. Also being the boss of a bunch of six and a half foot tall, 300 pound men is just a little appealing.

I would produce television shows and movies for adults to enjoy, not 14 year old boys, not the least of which would be a real Star Trek series.

 

[trekkerguy]

Is 999 Billion pounds a lot?

Que Whale song.

 

[propita]

That much money? Basically, forever?

After settling money problems for family and friends, new stuff (houses, cars, clothes that are tailored to fit, someone to do all the cooking--of healthy stuff--and cleaning), membership to Club 33 at Disneyland, yadda yadda yadda...

...it sounds like I'd be like a lot of people here: giving a lot of money away.

Infrastructure always needs to be fixed--and not with some cheap crap asphalt "paint" but REAL concrete roadbeds. Bridges, etc.

Educational programs that would hopefully teach people how to strive for more--in an honest fashion. If gangs are a problem, provide an alternative future for those kids; and protect those trying from those whose pleasure it is to prey on them. Also museums and exhibits so that people can see what exists beyond their neighborhood, and that people are similar all over.

Money for schools to be brought into the 21st century, college funds and schools for those who don't want/need college for what they want to do, like trade schools. People need tree trimmers, repairmen, plumbers, computer help, people who know what they're doing and there are people who'd rather do that than go to college. So programs to teach those skills and the skills to run a business, with financial advise and business support to keep their small businesses afloat.

Get new energy sources and reclaim land that has been despoiled. Programs to help endangered animals.

On the totally negative side...have a hit squad to take out rapists and child molesters (and extreme abusers), after total confirmation so no innocents or ambiguous cases are included--you said there'd be money, so I assume there'd also be time for confirmation. And of course, programs to help the victims.

Have a team to uncover the seedy businessmen and politicians and expose them to shame--and removing all unjust enrichment they have received. And extended to those family members who knew the source of the money they themselves spent and didn't care, as long as life was good for them.

Yeah, I'm kinda liking revenge.

 

[Hermiod]

I would produce television shows and movies for adults to enjoy, not 14 year old boys, not the least of which would be a real Star Trek series.

That's funny, if I was a billionaire I'd produce television shows aimed at 14 year old boys seeing as there's nothing for them to watch aside from sport on TV anymore.

 

[ITL]

Not sure how I'd spend my infinity-dosh, but sandwiches would definitely be involved.

 

[Count Zero]

I would produce television shows and movies for adults to enjoy, not 14 year old boys, not the least of which would be a real Star Trek series.

That's funny, if I was a billionaire I'd produce television shows aimed at 14 year old boys seeing as there's nothing for them to watch aside from sport on TV anymore.

What about Doctor Who or Merlin? I don't watch much TV so I guess that there are many more shows out there that could be popular with 14-year old boys than just the two I came up with.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'd fund medical and scientific research, and a space programme, basically I'd fund anything I thought was worthwhile, whether that's books, TV shows, movies or charity. Of course that's after I'd made sure myself and my family were well looked after.

 

[captcalhoun]

oh, well if i'm gigallionaire...

build an orbital death ray satellite to protect earth from asteroids.

hire a small, professional army and invade Zimbabwe to remove Mugabe and restore order.

use said army to liberate Burma from its military dictatorship

use said army to reunify Korea.

build an orbiting space platform from which i will lead the colonisation of the Moon.

hire Hayden Pannetierre to be my concubine, but only wearing Claire Bennet's cheerleader outfits.

hire Katie McGrath to be my other concubine wearing one of her gorgeous frocks from Merlin.

pay the terry Nation estate what ever it takes to prise the rights to the Daleks from their grubby mitts and give them to the BBC.

equip my army with an Ultimate SHIELD helicarrier.

bring back Action Force toys. the Pallitoy ones, not the Hasbro-rebranded GI Joe ones. but with decent articulation.

pay for a Visionaries movie.

 

[Hermiod]

What about Doctor Who or Merlin? I don't watch much TV so I guess that there are many more shows out there that could be popular with 14-year old boys than just the two I came up with.

The reasons why modern Doctor Who is not aimed at 14 year old boys is a whole thread on its own.

So yeah, I'd make TV that's aimed at teenage boys and later in the evening there'd be TV aimed at men. I'd show fun but educational science shows similar to Mythbusters and high quality science fiction with characters who aren't just there to have their shirts fall off.

I'd buy Arsenal and allow Arsene Wenger the resources he needs to compete.

I'd start my own wrestling promotion to compete with Vince McMahon and Jeff Jarrett. (Which ties in to the TV aimed at men idea)

I would fund non-religious programmes to help homeless people get back on their feet.

I would fund shelters for abandoned dogs, helping every dog that came through the doors find a new home.

 

[Mr. B]

I'd build a working shuttlecraft or something like it, maybe start a company to sell them. It would be like a Mach 7 G5 with vertical takeoff and no wings. Traveling the world and taking my Lamborghini with me would be pretty easy with such a thing.

Oh yeah and how bout a DS9 movie just for kicks.

 

[Finn]

In that case, I'd improve all of the neighborhoods in DC (between M street and Constitution Ave, and between Union Station and the White house), remove traffic from all of the downtown area, triple the number of metro stations (that should make up for lack of truck access in the downtown area for supplying the local businesses, etc, fund the schools, put in new traffic lights, pave the streets with red bricks, and feed the homeless.

 

[Candlelight]

Buy South Georgia from the UK and live there, making sure I had enough supplies to live out my remaining years, then donating the rest to the New Zealand government on the proviso they use it to take New Zealand to the stars, but making sure the country and all her people benefit from the said billions.