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Monday: Lottery Win

Oct 31, 2011 09:40

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tigriswolf October 31 2011, 13:08:49 UTC

Highlander, Methos, sometimes he plays the lottery just to donate all his winnings to a kids' charity or orphanage

Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy marbleglove October 31 2011, 23:23:38 UTC

Methos goes through periods of wealth and periods of poverty ( ... )

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy tigriswolf November 2 2011, 01:02:03 UTC

Thank you so much! The pragmatist lives forever. And of course he won't let Mac know.

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy lita_of_jupiter November 7 2011, 02:38:23 UTC

Oh how lovely!!

But I am still convinced he has a secret stashes everywhere full of cash... or easily convert-able assets I like how when he dies he leaves things to everyone and sponsors charities whitout saying anything

also loved his views ob money and what it really is, he has lived since before it existed afteral

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy marbleglove November 7 2011, 04:24:41 UTC

Thanks. And yeah, i agree that he knows where stashes of things are, but he's never sure, decade to decade or century to century, if it's still there or if he'd be able to access it or make a legal claim to it without making himself too visible to the Watchers. Plus, some of the stashes were probably never his to begin with. (Amanda is deeply suspicious regarding one of her suddenly depleted stashes.)

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy lita_of_jupiter November 7 2011, 19:40:32 UTC

hey having the memories of all those he has been forced to kill recently has at least gotten him a nice cushion in different tax heavens....

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy freddie_mac November 8 2011, 00:28:53 UTC

very nice --- love his attitude to charity.

"a dozen other disasters have all impoverished him" -- Pompei comes to mind as a rather random, unpredictable event. Now, if he could just remember exactly where the house was, and was prepared to do lots of digging ... but the authorities would accuse him of robbing an archaeological site, and does he really want to dig through the remains of his dearly departed? Well, eventually he'll be able to visit parts of his Pompei cache in the museum (and laugh at the pretentious explanations of bewildered archaeologists). Methos has lived long enough that many, many of his old belongings are safely ensconced in museums as items of (rather dubious, if you ask him) great historical significance.

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy marbleglove November 8 2011, 03:18:46 UTC

Exactly. It would be a great deal of effort--physical, emotional and legal--to access a lot of his old caches. Most of the time, it's easier to just earn more.

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy harpijka May 2 2012, 08:26:17 UTC

Ohh, how I like this. If I were to cpy and paste here my favorite lines, it would have to be most of this story.
I like very much its structure: like a good anecdote with a punchline.

Re: Fill: Money is only as useful as what it can buy marbleglove May 2 2012, 15:30:12 UTC

Thanks!

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