HaysooChreesto!

As a slight rip-off from another thread...

What would you do on tv for a billion dollars?
You'd only have to do it once, but the size of the audience watching would be a Superbowl size audience (hundreds of millions of people) and would include your friends and family.
Keep in mind that this is a BILLION dollars we're talking about here so it has to be pretty outrageous.
But think about it, one could set up a pretty good shelter, start their own charity for whatever purpose they so desired, take care of one's own family for many generations to come, take care of friends, pay for loved one's medical expenses, afford the best medical treatment if having a hard time conceiving. ANYTHING. With that much money, an individual could start their own university or conceivably there's an island somewhere in Indonesia that one could buy to at least start their own nation (maybe).
Oh yeah, the money's tax free so you get the entire billion.

My friends and I used to have this conversation in high school and there were always some pretty good-well, at least entertaining answers. My good friend quipped "I'd bone a dog on tv for a billion dollars". Just to give an example.

If you wish to be high-minded and say "I wouldn't do anything to humiliate myself for any amount of cash" then don't bother answering.

Personally, short of killing or injuring another human being, causing blindness, deafness, paralysis, etc, I'd do anything for a billion dollars.

christ-on-a-stick

I'm pretty much with you.

As long as whatever I was doing only affected *me* and I was physically able to do it without inflicting permanent injury (well I might give up a pinky toe or something...heh), a BILLION dollars could do so much good. The possibilities would be almost limitless!!!

elanah

I tend to agree. Though depending on the extent of injury, I'd be willing to cause harm to someone else. I mean, I wouldn't cause lasting injury or anything, but I'd be willing to, say, punch somebody in the face. I'd apologize, of course, but I'd do it for a billion dollars.

HaysooChreesto!

Hmm, punching someone in the face? Sorry, you'll have to do better than that. The spectacle needs to be something that's done to you that's either ultimately digusting or ultimately painful.
The extremely disgusting thing might be in too poor a taste now that I think about it, but that's up to the mods.

But the extremely painful thing could be something like; I'd be willing to have the two small toes of my feet, both pinky fingers, and one ear severed by a nearsighted and violently schizophrenic mental patient wielding a dull butcher knife while being fastened with razor wire to a stainless steel table that elevated vertically and cooled to -10 degrees fahrenheit that gives off high voltage shocks that last 10 seconds every 3 seconds. With no anastesia of course. I'd do that for a billion dollars.

elanah

In this case, you have better imagination than I do. I was just looking for a quick example of something that wouldn't cause lasting damage- I wouldn't expect it to be worth a billion dollars.

christ-on-a-stick

Wow that's quite the imagination you've got there Lamma!

Ouchie.

Mecha_Dude

I'd be filmed in a shower playing with my own shit

HaysooChreesto!

Now that's more like it. But how 'bout a shit shower?
Oh well, at least it's a start.

ex-xian

I was going to post that I would ejaculate into my mouth for a billion dollars, but....I don't know....that's a tough one

edit to add: Yeah, I would! It is a billion dollars that we're talking about here!

Jacey

Wuss. I'd do that for half a billion.

There isn't much I wouldn't do for a billion dollars. I'd probably even sacrifice an eye. Knowing all the good I'd do with the money, the self-sacrifice aspect wouldn't be that big of a deal.