If I had a million dollars...

[Possegal]

I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)

I like that line, because my canadian mother always called the couch the chesterfield.


Pssst, DB - they are lyrics to the barenaked ladies song "If I had a million dollars".

[7rider]

I like that line, because my canadian mother always called the couch the chesterfield.

I always wondered what a Chesterfield was. Thanks!

[Zen]

ches·ter·field (chěs'tər-fēld') n.

1. A single- or double-breasted overcoat, usually with concealed buttons and a velvet collar.
2. Chiefly Northern California & Canada A sofa.


[After a 19th-century earl of Chesterfield.]
Chesterfield, a term for a sofa, especially a large one with upholstered arms, was probably brought down from Canada, where it is common. In the United States, it was largely limited to the trade region of San Francisco in northern California. According to Craig M. Carver in American Regional Dialects, the word probably comes from the name of a 19th-century earl of Chesterfield and originally referred "specifically to a couch with upright armrests at either end." It appears to have come into use in Canada around 1903 and in northern California at about the same time.

Source: Dictionary.com

[Tuckervill]

Dijon ketchups.

(I have almost every version of that song that has ever been recorded, including Steve and Ed singing it on a table in the dining room of a cruise ship) so that might not be in your version.)

Karen, Arkansas' only BNL fanatic

eta: sorry for the thread-jack

[divingbiker]

Pssst, DB - they are lyrics to the barenaked ladies song "If I had a million dollars".

Oh, no wonder I didn't get it. Never heard a barenaked ladies song...if it wasn't popular in the 70s, then forget it.

[Tuckervill]

I'll bet you HAVE heard a BNL song, and just didn't know it. Think Toyota commercial.

They do the theme song for a newish sitcom called Big Bang Theory, too.

Karen

[HillSlugger]

A monkey! Have you forgotten about the monkey?!?

[Veronica]

If I had a million dollars, I'd hire 5 more teachers at my school so we could reduce our class size. I'd also bring our librarian back to full time and hire an art teacher.

Veronica

[Trek420]

If I had a million dollars, I'd hire 5 more teachers at my school so we could reduce our class size. I'd also bring our librarian back to full time and hire an art teacher.

Veronica

V's right. Seriously, if I had a million dollars I'd pick a school, any school and take it off the grid with solar. I wonder what our schools could do with the money they'd save by not having an electric bill and earn selling power back to the grid? Maybe bring a librarian back, have art and sports and more teachers? Maybe some bike racks? Who knows.

Because I'd be poor really, a million's not that much compared to some people, like Bernie maybe I'd ask that school to take the money they save and earn to help another school to do the same. And maybe this could snowball.

Everyone debates "solar's great but where are we gonna put it?" blah blah blah. Well how about on our schools? They have roofs, they could use new roofs anyway.

Before you know it you'd have a lot of schools saving and earning a lot, a lot of green jobs, and a lot of solar power.

And that's what I'd do if I had a million dollars. Seriously.

I'd also buy a green dress. but not a real green dress, that would be cruel.

[Zen]

A monkey! Have you forgotten about the monkey?!?

I've always wanted a monkey.
At least until that recent unfortunate chimpanzee thing