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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:19 PM
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Any get rich quick ideas?
So I'm tired of getting up and going to work every day like a shlub and am trying to think of some good get rich quick ideas so I can retire early (since my girlfriend stubbornly refuses to let me become her stay at home domestic engineer). What I've come up with so far:

- Put everything I've got on the Bears in the Superbowl (giving up the points I can triple my life savings)

- Dig up some good dirt on someone with lots of money and blackmail their rich ass

- Create a website about ninjas or pirates

Any other ideas? I really prefer to sleep in until noon.
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Bjornsdotter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:21 PM
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1. Marriage


....to someone who's terminal and elderly with no children.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:21 PM
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3. It helps if that person is wealthy, too.
;)
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Bjornsdotter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:23 PM
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4. Oops



....meant to put that in there.

Worked for a former co-worker....
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:21 PM
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2. Win the lottery. Marry a millionaire. Discover something very valuable.
Just what that valuable thing might be, I have no idea. If I knew, I'd discover it.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:26 PM
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5. Cyber Begging?
:shrug:
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:36 PM
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6. Set up a rwing foundation
soliciting donations from the gop base.
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:48 PM
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8. That's a good one
Something along the lines of nuking the ocean or the poor, or throwing the poor into the ocean, then nuking it along with all the godless whales.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:41 PM
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7. Ask George W. Bush if he's got two tens for a five
Repeat until rich.

(this joke shamelessly stolen from David Letterman, who applied it to Dan Quayle back when Executive branch idiocy was merely a comic distraction rather than an international tragedy).
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:49 PM
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9. Invent and patent something
that no one can live without.



Y'know, like a cell phone ring tone.

:crazy:
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:55 PM
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11. How about a pet block of wood?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:05 AM
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13. It's been done
But first, will you please, please welcome... a Block of Wood!







'Course, that one was a film star, not a pet. :shrug:
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:54 PM
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10. Or how about writing a screenplay about urban kids who...
like to dance, or a zany road trip movie involving anthropomorphic animals that appear cute for a moment only to turn evil and attack the protragonist in a hilarious fashion.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:59 PM
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12. Or a sitcom about a fat guy with a hot wife
That riff never gets old.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:08 AM
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14. Dear Friend: I am write to tell you of a situation that you help me, as
I am looking every here and there for a true and honest person. Allow me to introduce: I am my name, Esteemed Fitzwaldo, being the manager of the Nigerian National Bank and Lottery Company. Very recently died Mr. Richard Eire, a French national, unfortunately leaving an account of $300 million in the Bank without heirs ...
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:34 AM
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20. Forget it!
No way am I giving you any more money. Three times is enough!
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:12 AM
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15.  buy houses and rent them out
let the rent pay the mortgage
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:21 AM
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17. that takes too much capital
At best I could convert a roach motel into a roach apartment building
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:29 AM
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18. My friend buys them for nothing down from his bank
Usually foreclosures that the bank wants to dump. He does full mortgages and just has the rent pay the mortgage. He's become a multi-millionaire doing this.
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Oldtimeralso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:14 AM
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16. I have a friend that married a woman that made him....
a millionaire, he was a billionaire when he was single.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 12:34 AM
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19. One dollar from every active DU member?
That should be good for a few...

Here's your first (adjusted of course)...
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 01:26 AM
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21. Funny you should ask! For the low low price of only $19.95 I will send you
everything you need to start your very own Million-dollar-making* home business!!

* Your results may vary. Offer not valid in states where e-mail based scams are illegal.
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