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How will you make your first billion dollars?

lekvar

02:01 / 15.07.04

My first Billion dollars was made by successfully becoming CEO and Dictator For Life of Lekvar Unlimited, Purveyors of Fine Preserves (A Subsidiary of Lekvar Defense Industries). My second Billion dollars will come with the deployment of Lekvar Brand Disposable Dentures. I have seen the future, and it is populated by humans too lazy to brush their teeth. So, Disposable Dentures in Designer Colors with little Designer Logos is the obvious course answer to the needs of that future populace.

So, How will you make YOUR first billion?

Grey Area

08:34 / 15.07.04

I will register the directory enquiries number 118-666. The advertising campaign will feature such slogans as "It's a hell of a service" and "It's devilishly good", as well as hell-related imagery. The resulting uproar from various do-gooder organisations and the accompanying media coverage will put my directory enquiry number in everyone's mind, and will no doubt result in them choosing 118-666 as their preferred directory service when they need one. Massive income is assured.

Jub

08:55 / 15.07.04

Fraud. I'm thinking of inviegling myself into a large faceless corporation and then committing massive fraud. Think Enron but bigger.

Grey Area

09:03 / 15.07.04

Bigger than Enron? No...not...you're not thinking...you are, aren't you? You're going to become President of the United States of America Inc.!

Mazarine

16:36 / 15.07.04

The hydro-sodium engine. If I don't get killed in the effort, I'll be fabulously rich.

Sekhmet

16:47 / 15.07.04

I plan to become close friends and confidantes with a number of people who are likely to eventually become fabulously wealthy, and will then be happy to share their fortunes with their good buddy, me.

The downside to this is that people who seem likely to become fabulously wealthy are often also emotionally disturbed, so being their close friend and confidante is hard work. Maybe just knocking over a bank would be easier.

(Which would be funnier if my community hadn't had 30 bank robberies this year... I'm starting to think it would be really easy to get away with it...)

electricinca

10:49 / 16.07.04

I saw a similar thread to this on a high IQ forum but the ideas there were crappy compared with Lekvar's Disposable Dentures and Grey Area's "Hell of a good" Directory Enquiries service.

My first billion will come from my discovery of Yamashita's Gold, which is hidden somewhere in The Philippines.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:55 / 16.07.04

You mean a Hi-Q forum? Where much underestimated Autobot headmaster Hi-Q is celebrated in all his forms? Rock. Where do I sign up?

I'm going to invent the Headmaster bonding process. Then incorporate bluetooth.

flufeemunk effluvia

23:22 / 16.07.04

I will first take over the FDA and then secretly approve my own brand of addictive stimulant. Get rich the same way as the Tobbacco industry, only with less smoke and more random urination.

Triplets

23:25 / 16.07.04

I thought he meant a Haiku forum, where schemes are presented in 17 syllables. Or less.

phrankphutta

00:15 / 17.07.04

Hamburgers shaped like hot dogs.

They rock.

flufeemunk effluvia

01:58 / 17.07.04

Haiku make you rich
Clever poetry for cash
Count your syllables

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