Conference quark::human_relations

    
    	If money were no object....
    
    	I'd probably only be enjoying more material posessions that I
    cannot have currently. For example, I've always (ever since I was a
    youngster) been fond of Chris-Craft inboard power boats. The mahogany
    ones, like in "On Golden Pond". Given my current financial situation,
    I know it's very unlikely that I'll ever be waterskiing behind one of
    those that I own. But if money were no object...I'd have *one of them*
    parked back behind the garage on its trailer with a cover over it. Just
    waiting for the deep brown finish to again shine in the Sun and the
    dual exhausts to go Glub-Glub-Glub through blue water as the motor idles
    smoothly...
    
    	I'd probably have one of them Toyota Supras too. They're cool.
    
    	Joe

    would you not have that parked in the boat house??
    
    just curious...
    
    g

    I'd be getting out there fulfilling my dreams in several areas...
    
      - Business -- making several things like the Internet more useful
          for people, and building businesses around these things which
          are fun to work for.
      - Non-profit organizations -- helping groups use newer technologies
          to get their jobs done more efficiently, and to cooperate on
          bigger and better projects
      - Government / politics -- directly lobbying and helping the movers
          and shakers fix some of the obvious problems of our time
    
    If I had more money, I could hire people to do a lot of this stuff, and
    I'd be able to have more time for vacations and hobbies, because then
    instead of 24 hours a day to get work and sleep done, I'd have lots of
    helpers and thereby make more than 24 hours of forward progress each
    day.  I've been able to get a lot of volunteer help on some of these
    things over the past several years, but there's an endemic problem
    which has been getting worse as I (and my peers) have gotten older:
    everyone's "too busy" all the time.  Money can fix that problem in a
    hurry, by creating new career opportunities.
    
    -rich
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    "money" would not make hardly any difference at all...... the richest
    person is not the one who has the most money, but the one who needs the
    least... probably if I had much more money I would travel a bit more,
    but as things are, I travel when I can and am Mighty happy with what I
    have (that's not much in question of money but is plenty in question of
    contentment, or happines or whatever we want to call it).  Truly, if I
    had more money... I probably could not sleep well at night thinking of
    ways to increase it, or to invest it, or.... etc. etc. etc... money is
    NOT all in this life.
    Ana
    

    I agree money is not all.  However, if it were also no object, I'd move to 
    San Francisco, buy a Victorian house, and open an antique jewelry store.
    
    I'd also travel and collect art.  (Naturally, I would contribute to
    various charities, as well.)
    
    Lorna
    

    re .5, however, my daughter, my cats and my friends would still mean
    the most to me.
    
    Lorna
    

    I would be playing music more, often stopping occasionaly to play with
    my kids.
    
    I'd buy my mom a house - not to big since she would want to clean it
    herself.
    
    I pay off all of my bills - a couple of zillion would just abour do it!
    
    I'd feed one homeless person a day for the rest of my life.
    
    I'd buy a real computer for fun and profit!
    
    Who knows......
    
    Dave

         Limme see...money, no object.
         Life, how different..........
         Present manager? Company?
         Same....?
         Different?
    
         I'd probably do what John Bears Fortipton, the Millionaire,did
    on a t.v. program in the 1950's did. He gave,annonymously and tax free,
    one million dollars to (Sometimes deserving, sometimes
    undeserving)people. Great story line.
    
         Just imagine what the person in the next cubicle would act like
    having found out that they'd been the object of such beneviolence ?
    
         Lets see,who might I target ?
    
         Present manager ? Not.
         Present company ? Not.
         Why ?   This used to be so much more than a job; it used to be
    fun. Alas, it's just a job. Like so many others, this has become just
    another company. It used to be so much more. 
         If money were no object, Not. Not. No.
    
         What would be the same, different ? I would be different. I'd
    invest in a really nice toupe....so all my erstwhile friends wouldn't
    recognize me ? You know the ones that are habitual offenders [kissing
    up, even when no one's around].I'd dress up like a clergyman monday,
    a firefighter tuesday,a taxi driver wednesday,a pimp thursday,a
    country-western type on friday,a beatnik or Hippy on saturday and BP
    on sunday. Be Wild. I'd document folks perceptions and write a book or
    two all about these experiences.
         Alas, sin and corruption would be the same. The IRS would be the
    same. And the SAT's would be the same. Jokes would be funnier, days
    longer, music sweeter,laughter lighter,....and love truer.
    
    
    
                                                 Peace,
                                                 -RAM-

    It was John Beresford Tipton.
    
    Leslie

         Thank you for that correction....
         Though it seems like only yesterday, alas...it's been a long,long
    time. You wouldn't recall the name of the butler, the go-between, would
    you?
    
                                                -RAM-

    I too was going to provide a correction but, I err, was never supposed
    to mention or even know his name and, well, you know the rest of the
    story.
    
    ed
    
    :-)

    "Hello, my name is Michael Anthony.  I was executive secretary to the
    late, fabulously wealthy John Beresford Tipton, who pursued the strange
    hobby of giving away anonymously *one million dollars*--to persons he
    had never even met."
    
    :-)  I'm 99.9% sure that's the script from the intro of every episode
    of "The Millionaire"--I LOVED that program!  (Has Nickelodeon ever run
    it?  Does anyone have Nik's official mailing address?)
    
    Leslie

         Thanks very much. I second that emotion. Be simply wonderful to 
    again enjoy some of those episodes. I don't know if I have any
    favorites....they were all so good, as I recall. Surely someone knows
    if this show's being r
    
                                                  Peace,
                                                  -RAM-