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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
You really just want the people who piss it away to have a good time doing it.
A storied ancestor of mine was one of the lithographers on Audobon's prints, built a smaller printing empire before the civil war, and then managed to both fight in the civil war (reading his own obituary at one point) and print maps of battles (after they were over) making another fortune during the war. After the war, his wife died in one of the periodic fires that flattened large sections of Brooklyn, he married a woman much much younger than him and spent all his money partying with his war comrades, various NY politicians, and his young wife, and on various Scottish causes. He frittered it all away before he died, but it sounds like he had a blast. When one of his maps or prints surfaces now and then it fetches a small fortune, but there are only a couple left in the family.
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A storied ancestor of mine commanded the Revolutionary Army before George Washington showed up to take over. If he'd just said, sit down George, I've got this, then we coulda been someone. Instead it's been all downhill from there.
Actually, not even an ancestor, just a cousin, but so close.
