I have to admit, if I were independently wealthy, I would probably be Arthur.
Yeah, I'd probably party my ass off for a year or until that got old. (Or does that never get old?)
There might be hookers and blow.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 8:00:05 am PDT #4518 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
lisah - Apr 21, 2011 8:00:32 am PDT #4519 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Oh, yes, congrats on the new job, msbelle!
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 8:00:57 am PDT #4520 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, congrats, msbelle!
tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 8:03:09 am PDT #4521 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kathy A - Apr 21, 2011 8:05:45 am PDT #4522 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Definitely congrats on the job, msbelle!
If I were suddenly wealthy, I'd probably continue working at whatever library I could, but then set up scholarship funds for inner-city kids to go to college, starting with them when they're in elementary school and keeping track of them throughout their school years. I first heard about wealthy benefactors doing that a few decades ago, and always loved the idea.
Tom Scola - Apr 21, 2011 8:07:40 am PDT #4523 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I would either start a comic book company, or perhaps a research lab.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 21, 2011 8:09:02 am PDT #4524 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If I were independently wealthy I'd probably travel and paint.
megan walker - Apr 21, 2011 8:20:59 am PDT #4525 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
If I were independently wealthy I'd probably travel and paint.
Substitute reading for painting and this is me.
Growing up on the campus of a NE prep school and spending early summers at Hay Harbor on Fishers Island, I've known lots of very rich people. IME, the attitude of the rich towards work and everything else totally depends on their parents and upbringing, especially old money versus new. If it's obvious someone has money, it is almost always relatively newly earned. (Although now I could probably read clothes better than I could in high school.)
Jesse - Apr 21, 2011 8:22:13 am PDT #4526 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I remember being totally mind-boggled the first time I drove through Phillips Andover probably at 12 or 13? Because the kids looked so scruffy! I thought they would be fancy. Possibly due to Pretty In Pink and similar.
Consuela - Apr 21, 2011 8:24:29 am PDT #4527 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Because the kids looked so scruffy! I thought they would be fancy
Heh. The students I knew in law school who came from money dressed very casually/poorly, in sloppy old khakis and falling-apart boat shoes. Really not what I expected from rich kids.