If you were given one day to do anything you wanted with no consequence, what would you do?

Hmm... my answer to this depends on whether I get to keep what I buy afterwards.

If I got to keep it -

I'd buy a big old Victorian house, with 10 bedrooms or so, in each of the cities where I might consider living some day.

I'd use some of the money to bribe my friends' bosses to give them long vacations, and I'd buy air fare for us all to hang out someplace interesting together for a month.

I'd found several philanthropic organizations.

I'd buy spacious office space in each of the cities where the houses were.

I'd buy lots of cool clothes.

I'd stash some of the cash, for the future.

If I don't get to keep the money, I'd likely simply find a way to have a fun time with someone I cared for. My idea of a fun time isn't all that expensive, other than needing to buy a plane ticket and rent a hotel room and pay for a fancy restaurant, perhaps.

Can I have a super power too?
I want to fly around the world like Superman.
If I could bring my wife and friends along that would be nice too.

Steal a Ferrari (do I get to keep it after that day?).

Drive on the Mass Pike at 140mph nonstop to New York, just for fun.

I would go to the biggest bakery and eat everything! Then I would throw the Biggest party, because the next day I wouldn't have to clean anything.

I think that I would like to hop a flight to Amsterdam with Daniel and go see the whole town. Shopping, museums, everything. Then we'd eat a fabulously unhealthy dinner and lay around a hotel room naked getting high and laughing.

Heh, heh, heh. Too many things come to mind all at once.

I would rather not say!!

What I would probably do is break a multitude of laws ...legal and moral.

I'd use my unlimited expense account to buy a majority stake in Microsoft and then give Bill Gates the job of head bug fixer for M$ products. He'd get either a public spanking or a boot to the head every time anyone's M$ application or operating system crashed, anywhere. This would make it difficult for him to fix bugs at first, but it would give him one helluvalotta desire to!

Alternatively, I'd buy a Ducati 996 and have a lot of fun on Boston-area roadways. I've always thought Storrow & Mem Drive had the makings of a great racecourse, with a trip around the Common for fun.

jonathan: I like your idea about Bill Gates. Except I don't think anyone would show up for a public spanking. In fact, the public would probably pay you not to show it, so it is a good way to get more money.

Lauren: Yeah, right!!! People would be lining up to see the richest man in the country get spanked like a child!!!

Mariah: The idea of the richest man in the country would draw lots of people, but Bill Gates is just so ugly, I wouldn't want to see it.

I'd want to do it. The thought of humiliating that little worm in front of the world makes me...uh...well, let's just say.... I'd bring my own paddle and do it for free.

Sit cowering in a dark corner and reject this existence a la The Matrix

grmbrand: If you want to drive 140 mph go to Germany. No speed limit there!

I would give huge charitable donations to all the charities I really care about.

I'd like to destroy all the records of world debt, so that there are no more poor countries trying to pay off the interest on their debts. Or get into the accounts of the richest people in the world, and distribute most of their money evenly to the poorest.

vos: But that would defeat the purpose.
natsim: But... but... you are the richest person in the world...

This really sounds "goody two shoes" but I wouldn't do anything any differently than I do now. Boring, isn't it?

Fluffball: perhaps, but no one will know unless you wanted them to.

i have no idea

natsim - I like those ideas!

natsim: wouldn't the U.S. be the biggest beneficiary of such an act?

ponder the insight gained by this survey

I'd take my sweetie to Victoria on the Victoria Clipper. We'd stay in the best suite of the best hotel, and eat all kinds of fattening foods (no consequences, right?) in the best restaurants. And we'd each get a new tattoo. But one day is not enough. I want a whole weekend!

If this was a magical wish kind of thing, I'd take her to Paris, but I wouldn't want to spend the time traveling just for one day there.

hmmm.... there are lots of fun things but if it was anything I think it would be to go either snowskiing somewhere really cool, all day, with all of the nice stuff for snow skiing, and being able to

....and in both those places I'd break a myriad of laws. Moral and legal. :P

I would make arrangements to have as many kids as possible spend an entire day at Disneyland

I would circumnavigate the globe and have four completely different gourmet meals in lavish restaurants.

It's not clear exactly what is meant by this - no consequences, as in I'm protected from the possible effects (ill or good) of my actions, and only have the memories to take home? Or something else? In the former case, I'd probably want to see some of the more amazing things in the world, eat some really top-shelf food, and have a lot of sex without condoms.

SueBee - I did that a few years ago for someone's birthday and it was great! You should save up and do it - it's actually not very expensive to stay in the Empress hotel because of the exchange rate. The Butchart gardens are very impressive.

drdt: I don't understand your point about the US being the biggest beneficiary. It's not the US I care about, it's the people in it (and other countries). I think you're being ironic about there being so many poor people in the US? Or are you saying that the US has a big world debt? Or am I missing something?

Go hunter hunting.

I would go buy every CD that I have ever wanted, then I would buy a huge house and furniture for it, I would buy a car. I would tell the guy I really like how I feel. Then, if I had time I would kill a few people that really piss me off. Oh yeah, I would probably buy some illegal drugs, fireworks, stuff like that.

I'd do mass illegal drugs and go on a shooting rampage.

Hunt'em S. mandy...

eris - We will go again one of these days. I love Victoria!

Kill Jesse Helms...wait, isn't he dead already? I think they just hold him up in the chair. How about kill Marilyn Manson. He's such a loser.

Obviously Mr. Manson's genius is lost on you.

lonxedosol - Have you actually listened to his lyrics?

mandy: I'm curious, what do you think of Mansons image? Personally I think he acts like a total wanker, has some good music and behind all that is actually a very intelligent guy (judging by interviews, quotes etc. Haven't got 'round to reading his autobiography yet, I intend to though). I suspect his image is totally calculated to make himself rich and famous and is not actually that sincere.

I read parts of his autobiography.. and like his 'image', I think a lot of it was made up to get a rise out of people.

Sup and They... you are both very close. In one of Manson's songs there is a line that says:

Someone had to go this far.

Manson is a parody. He admits this. It's very clever really, if you ponder it. Manson has become the embodiment of everything we as humans have become. He is in a sense holding up and mirror and reflecting our own ugliness back at us. Our hypocracy, our greed, selfishness, our hate. It is base, honest and courageous.

I'm sure he finds it terribly funny when people take what he looks like and acts like to mean he is promoting these things for the youth of the world. Many see him as a sick and depraved Pied Piper ready to lead our children into a den of iniquity and sin. The sad thing is..he may just be a savior of our children and we as parents can't see past what we knee jerkingly
presume is evil to see the real message underneath.

That message: "Wake up, and look what you've become and look at what you yourselves have done to your children!"

Someone had to go this far.

This is my take on Mr. Warner after much research, reading, and study of the Marilyn Manson phenom. I couldn't just take him at face value. It didn't add up for me. I had to dig deeper. I was honestly delighted and surprised when I did.

I´d love to see a pic of him without the make up, the red contacts and weird outfits!

mandy: *nod* that gels fairly well with what I've seen. I read the first few chapters of his autobiography a while ago... it was... err... interesting...

vos....I'll find ya one.

sup

TmW: Thanx, and you can call me Maarten.. It sounds more natural to me!

cool...for me too. I just know some folks are funky about having peeps call them their real names online, Maarten.

I really don´t mind. I´m not such a tight ass!

Well thats a tough one I think I would have to kidnap my fiances' ex-wife and take her deep into the jungle and leave her there. She is so hard to deal with It would be nice if she would disapear.

well, if you're going to commit a felony anyway, just shoot her.

I would first jump off a cliff, I think, unless I chickened out. Then maybe I would rob a bank or ten. I would eat a whole big white cake with white frosting. I would beat the crap out of this woman I know (who desperately needs it) and maybe to the point that she goes into a coma.
I would break into my landlords place and change the agreement allowing me to have my dog at home with me. Oh I miss him.
I would force my mother in law to GO AWAY.
Then I would go to the courts and change the sentencing for my S/O so he doesn't have to go to jail for 6 months.
I would go to the pharmacies and get my fill.
Wow, I would be one busy person.

Visit Antarctica, go skydiving, go mountain
climbing, take flying lessons, steal the
Hope diamond and Van Gogh's "The Starry Night", get liposuction

I would plan it ahead of time, and meet up with someone I've been wanting to meet.