If you had unlimited resources, what offbeat and kooky things would you do?

[Joe Fields]

For me, maybe five years from now, I would build a monument to SUV's, maybe build a mansion out of them or something.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Unlimited pork rinds for everybody.

Delivered daily. Don't try to stop them from being delivered.

[Kali]

2. I would probably still drive a POS looking vehicle

but I might trick out the inside. Mostly if I had unlimited resources the stuff I would do wouldn't really be offbeat or kooky - maybe give away cash to odd people or something, but otherwise normal stuff.

[HEyHEY]

3. A pedestrian bridge from Shangri-la to the wall centre

[enigmatic]

4. Form my own Curling team and go on the Cashpiel Tour

THAT would be a blast....

[Joe Fields]

6. can I be on your curling team? I LOVE curling...

[enigmatic]

10. You got it, bro

Do you follow the tours up here?:

http://www.worldcurlingtour.com/index.php

I'm an Expat turned resident who has become obsessed w/ Curling since coming to Canada; my wife thinks it's hilarious, but it keeps me out of trouble:D

[Chan790]

5. Soak bath in oatmeal daily...

laugh all you want, there is nothing better for your skin.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Joe Fields!

I'd go on one of those hyper-expensive trips around the world via private jet!

See the sights and have the most fabulous time EVAH!

*sigh*

[Joe Fields]

8. Kind of like in the movie 'The Bucket List?'

Sounds nice.

[harmonicon]

9. just one thing:

a solid gold flying house

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. I hereby pronounce you king of the lounge!

:rofl:

[coyotespaw]

11. I'd build myself a crimefighting arsenal

and gather up my old high school friends as my sidekicks. We'd be the league of middle aged gentlemen.

[bridgit]

12. I'd invest in AIG...it's bound to go up from here...

[kentauros]

14. I have a friend that works for AIG

though he's not in the financial division. Still, he does work with investments. I think he said he's in the insurance division.

[bridgit]

15. Very cool, then he prolly has a hunch...it's all going to come back up by & by...

it'll just take a little bit of time that's all ;)

[Haole Girl]

22. Um... don't count on it.

Been fighting with them since Sept. 14th to liquidate my annuity. They STILL haven't done it. After 5 weeks, all I got from them was another letter explaining my surrender charges *if* I wanted to liquidate. Most crooked bunch of thieves I've ever dealt with in the financial world.

:grr:

[kentauros]

13. Build everything on RexResearch.com

(RexResearch) and give away to the world every invention that works.

Build giant Tesla coils

[Tektonik]

16. I would build myself a villa but in a modern style out in the CA desert

and I would play video games all day :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. I would take a hot-air balloon trip around the world.

I would have a topiary garden maze.
I would make a movie, a series of movies, actually and dedicate them to my Grandmother.
I would purchase a ticket to fly to the moon.
I would walk the El Camino.
I would spend time with a medicine man/shaman.
I could go on...

[harmonicon]

33. with unlimited funds I bet you could even afford an El Camino that runs

[Tuesday Afternoon]

41. heehee...

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known in English as The Way of St James, is a collection of old pilgrimage routes which cover all Europe. They all have Santiago de Compostela in north west Spain as their final destination. For more than 1000 years pilgrims have been walking along the Camino de Santiago.

The main route, featured here, is more commonly known as the Camino Frances,. This part of the Camino de Santiago traditionally starts in St Jean Pied de Port and finishes in Santiago de Compostela about 780km later, after traveling the breadth of Northern Spain.(In Santiago you can collect your Compostela) However you can start anywhere and even continue past Santiago to the sea at Finisterre. Finisterre was thought to be the end of the world in medieval times

more at: http://preview.tinyurl.com/The-el-camino

http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS243US243&q=el+camino

[MissMillie]

18. I'd go on a safari

and I'd buy a scooter.

[BulletproofLandshark]

19. I'd build a space station big enough to be visible with the naked eye.

In daylight.

[DS1]

25. This. With Butlers. Actually, make that French Maids.

I'd also buy Michael Schumacher's house from underneath him, and take his cars too.

Pay for wind and wave farms up and down the North Sea.

[NoPasaran]

20. I'd have a troupe of mariachis acompany me whenever I wenr out in public

[kentauros]

31. Your own traveling theme music!

:rofl:

[Haole Girl]

21. Go cross-country on my bike... take my time & take a lot of pics

Maybe run away with Greenpeace, or Sea Shepherd, for a few months.. for starters. Live in the Sierra mountains, by myself, in a sturdy cabin for the winter... just a good guard dog, a pair of snow shoes, and lots of provisions!

It's fun to think about these things, but I'm obviously not independently wealthy, and doubt I'll ever be able to do them. :-(

[SarahB]

23. Let's see...

Maybe my own dungeon (except everything is pink and fuzzy instead of all black and leathered out- a friendly dungeon with flowers and comfy pillows).

You asked. :shrug:

After we've taken care of multiple charities and family of course.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. I'd form my own nation

wherein every resident would play a character in a Monty Python bit.

[CottonBear]

26. I'd build an off-the-grid tree house and a deluxe bocce ball and croquet court

along with a horseshoe pitch and a badminton court. The grass on the courts would be deluxe (golf green quality). I'd have solar lighting for nighttime use. Cisterns would collect water and the irrigation systems would be solar powered. I'd have raised and screened viewing and judging pavilions off to the sides of the courts. (I'm in Georgia so protection from the sun and bugs is essential!) MY SO and I love lawn sports and also games like (indoor) shuffleboard, pin ball, pool, etc., so we'd have a deluxe indoor game pavilion too!

[SOteric]

27. Buy a tract of land

where 'Tent City' could permanently reside. I have a feeling it's going to be getting bigger in the next couple of months. Run a little soup kitchen from downtown. Put together an affordable living community for the elderly. Make sizeable donations to PAWS and the Pasado Foundation.

[Incitatus]

28. I would build a massive floating island.

It would be at least a square mile, powered by wind and solar and as self-sufficient as possible.

[MattSh]

46. That picture is priceless !!

[Arugula Latte]

30. Buy up a shitload of land in Paraguay so I can be a water fascist ... Oh, wait, that's Dubya's plan.

[Initech]

32. I'd buy a POS vehicle and take a road trip through North and South America.

Similar to what Che Guevara did in "The Motorcycle Diaries".

[Lethe]

34. invite everyone on DU to my ranch

we will live in tents, smoke lots of weed, and dance by bonfire light to a drumline

[Lyric]

35. Build free clinics, social service centers, and shelters in as many places

as I could. I'd hire poor people to run them in as many positions as possible, because the poor feel more empathy with the problems of poverty than anyone else ever could, and I'd want my staff to be as unbureaucratic and sincerely helpful as possible.

Then I'd hire a lobbyist to bitch loudly to the apathetic government about fixing welfare reform, because the only thing the "reform" managed to accomplish was to push poor people off the radar and make it impossible for poor single parents to get the education they need to stay out of poverty. Work-first philosophy is like putting a band-aid on a gushing artery. It covers up the problem, but solves absolutely nothing, and the bleeding continues unabated.

Poverty is a quiet catastrophe in this nation. I want to make it a squeaky wheel in our ears again. Otherwise, the poor will continue to quietly suffer and invisibly die in American cities everywhere. If and when I ever get the chance to work in politics--this is my Cause.

[yellowdogintexas]

36. build a 'green'house on land that has a cave on it. nt

[TX Screwball]

37. Funyons!

For Everyone!

[femmocrat]

38. I would get a horse.

And a nice place for it to live.

And someone else to take care of it.

(I always wanted a horse.)

[SoCalDem]

39. I would buy Jamaica...and live there

:)

[Inchworm]

40. Buy city blocks in various cities

and rural land. Then build castles on the spot with walls and the whole deal. They'd be fully open to the public except the one I'm currently living in with my hot lovah. ;)

The castles would be fully staffed and cater to the needs of those in need.

:hi:

[Connonym]

42. Start a fund to destroy all the raisins in the world

They are an affront to my taste buds.

[Wapsie B]

43. Travel the world, build an estate in a warm climate region,

fund scholarships for "average" older adult students.

[Lucian]

44. Buy many vineyards in France and live the rest of my days in a drunken stupor.

[boilerbabe]

45. tried to reply to this one and got knocked off the internet?

Would just go and do whatever I thought would be the right thing, which would most likely be just hanging out and reading a lot of good books. If you asked me this question like about 20 years ago, I might have answered it differently.Used to be so much more exciting than now...long story

I have done some offbeat-kooky shit in my day. And I am not done yet, just having a bad week where I am not sure if I will have a job next week. otherwise, I would be ready for all.

Cursor is jumping all over the place, so am going to post this ...

[LeftyFingerPop]

47. I would fund some people down on their luck...

Maybe some people who have become homeless.

I would find out what they are good at and what their passion was: writing, building trades, being a good listener, cooking, etc.

I would provide them with a beautiful modest home, and take care of all their living expenses.

In return, I would ask them to use their skills to help others for at least a few hours a day.

Ah, what a nice fantasy!