With Powerball at a half-billion (yes, with a ‘B’) dollars, we decided to take the temperature of the Twitter-verse and see what nuggets of wisdom we could gain.

What we found was optimism, pessimism, and apparently the winning numbers from the future.

Let us know what you’re going to do with the money. Comment below, or Tweet us: @1033ampradio

And you thought your college alumni association hounded you for money now…

if any LU alumni, player or staff member wins the powerball , they need to promise to build me my new soccer stadium/field—
Paul Vasconcelos (@pvasco75) November 27, 2012

So if this operating room wins… We might be screwed… At least they’re giving 2 weeks notice…

Everyone I work with in the operating room all pitched in for #powerball tickets. We have over a hundred tickets. #winning=2weeksnotice—
Allison O'Rourke (@ORourkeYourBody) November 28, 2012

Some of us are a little confident…

Finally got my powerball tickets…sucks to be everyone else when I win 😜 jk—
Shannon Winn (@ShannWinn) November 28, 2012

David Wade from WBZ-TV… What are you gonna buy?

If I win tomorrow night's $425M #Powerball jackpot I am going to… buy a bunch of stuff. You?—
David Wade (@davidwade) November 27, 2012

Then there are those who are putting country first…

If I was Obama I'd probably start fixing this deficit by rigging Powerball—
Wicked Pissah (@Boston_Humor) November 27, 2012

It seems more true than not… #CanIBeInTheWill?

I'm not going to even entertain the idea of winning Powerball. Some elderly person always takes home the millions.—
Will D. (@WAD1980) November 27, 2012

Some of us got driven to buy a ticket based on the day we were having…

I consider myself a rational person but after a work day like today there was no way I wasn't buying powerball tickets.—
Christine (@NotoriousCLH) November 27, 2012

Regardless of whether this guy wins or not… Party at his house!

Running out to buy a bottle of scotch to celebrate my powerball win…but even if I don't win t least ill have a bottle of scotch—
Colin T (@templec4) November 27, 2012

It doesn’t seem like an unreasonable request, does it?

Hey if any of you win the powerball and we actually like each other in real life and not just on the internet, all I need is $5,000.—
THA CAPITAL G (@THACAPITALG) November 27, 2012

And then there’s the Onion with an advance copy of the winning numbers:

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/273554740103766016