Reply to: Making a million.

[Mich the Tester]

I'd go for Headingley '81 - England at 500-1 to eat the Aussies, which we did.

Bung £20k on at the right time as the odd's hit that, wait a couple of days for Botham to butcher the Aussie bowling and Bob Willis to smash their batting, job done.

Picking correct lottery numbers on a big jackpot would surely be smarter?

Alexei, let me introduce you to a peculiar aspect of English culture. Given the choice of a multi million pound jackpot you KNOW you're going to get, or watching England thrash Australia at cricket having put a large bet on the game and pretending not to know the result, many of use would choose the second just for the sheer pleasure of watching Ian Botham walk in to bat in a no-hope situation, then smashing the Australian bowlers to every corner of the Headingley field and a few corners of the carpark outside, and of course seeing Bob Willis running in like a demented giraffe and flinging a hard ball so fast the Aussies couldn't even see the damn thing coming at them.

I was nine when I saw that and I will NEVER forget it. Yep, the recent Ashes wins were great, and the players were fantastic, but for that one season, Ian Botham in 1981 was quite simply the best cricketer I have ever seen. He might not have been great in other years, but 1981 he could have played cricket as a one man team to save the world against a team of invaders from the rest of the universe and he'd have won.

Credit to the Aussies for turning up and winning the first two games, because in hindsight, once Botham got his act together they didn't stand a chance.

Of course, if you don't follow cricket...

[AtW]

I'd go for Headingley '81 - England at 500-1 to eat the Aussies, which we did.

Picking correct lottery numbers on a big jackpot would surely be smarter?

[BA to the Stars]

That was always my plan as well. If I had a time machine, obviously.

I'd start with Foinavon '67.

I'd go for Headingley '81 - England at 500-1 to eat the Aussies, which we did.

Bung £20k on at the right time as the odd's hit that, wait a couple of days for Botham to butcher the Aussie bowling and Bob Willis to smash their batting, job done.

[AtW]

Make that £1000200 I now need.

[MarillionFan]

You are requesting luck wishings. Please to be specifying;
- type of luck
- form of wishings

We can then raising ticket for change request. Please be doing the needful ting.

Make that £1000200 I now need.

[original PM]

Yes, I've found that they're really good at 'not supplying' too.

lol but thats not what I meant and you know it!

[Mich the Tester]

and it was not supplied by bobs .....

Yes, I've found that they're really good at 'not supplying' too.

[Mich the Tester]

To answer the original question: Go back 20 years and start saving 10% of your income. Invest it in stock market index funds and you have over a million today. It works, believe me.

That's what the nice man from the pensions company told me 15 years ago and I now have about 2500 euros. Hint; that's not because by income was really low.

[original PM]

believe it or not I am currently perusing a thirty page change document for something which contains no actual changes - I hope we do not go down the route of have to produce documents when something is not changing that would be crazy!

and it was not supplied by bobs .....

[istvan]

To answer the original question: Go back 20 years and start saving 10% of your income. Invest it in stock market index funds and you have over a million today. It works, believe me.

[rob s]

Luck is working as design. Please be raise changing request.

It's not a change. It's just a change to something which isn't being changed, therefore I don't need to follow the change management process, because even though it's a change requiring a 20 hour data load and modifying 30 drop-down fields, it's an actual change....

[Bunk]

Oh, and I suppose you'll tell me you've carried out 4000 test cases to prove that. 4000 bloody identical happy flow test cases with 200 variations on the spelling of 'shawadiwadi' and 3800 different sums of money ranging from 1000 to 4800 when the bloody system only does anything interesting for sums over 5000 or under 1000, but 4000 test cases it is and it says so in bloody HP QC so you cannot be arguing with the QC system as we have been agreeing it is sourcing of truth for all in project, please to be raising change request.

We really need a machine gun smiley around here.

Test cases are not be running presently. Please be advise if you are require tests to be switching on?

[AtW]

We really need a machine gun smiley around here.

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

[Mich the Tester]

We can prepone your change if it is requirement?

Luck is working as design. Please be raise changing request.

Oh, and I suppose you'll tell me you've carried out 4000 test cases to prove that. 4000 bloody identical happy flow test cases with 200 variations on the spelling of 'shawadiwadi' and 3800 different sums of money ranging from 1000 to 4800 when the bloody system only does anything interesting for sums over 5000 or under 1000, but 4000 test cases it is and it says so in bloody HP QC so you cannot be arguing with the QC system as we have been agreeing it is sourcing of truth for all in project, please to be raising change request.

We really need a machine gun smiley around here.

[Mich the Tester]

Do what I do.

Place ten contractors at £100,000 a year, fob them off about paying them and then close/liquidate the company after a year.

Then spend the million on bodyguards, a home CCTV system and an electric fence when you wake up to find your daughter's pony's head next to you in bed.

<MTT in 'I'll get that last agent' mode>