Admit it. Since it was first announced a winning Powerball ticket worth $110 million was sold in South Carolina, all of you have talked about what you would do with that kind of money had you won.

Talk has discussed it over and over again with family and friends. Unfortunately, none of our tickets had a set of numbers that was even close to the winning combination. But that hasn’t stopped us from dreaming about capturing the lottery’s big prize.

Talk’s dad is a Clover native, so when we first heard the winning ticket was sold there, we were really hoping that maybe his brother, Uncle Dean, who still lives there, had gone by the Clover Stop and Save and made the key purchase.

It goes without saying, if that had been the case, we would have been on the phone immediately to tell Dean that he always has been our favorite uncle — by far.

Alas, Uncle Dean didn’t win. Neither did any other Clover residents. For the second time in eight months, a North Carolina couple claimed a huge Powerball jackpot with a ticket bought in the Palmetto State.

Now don’t get us wrong. Talk’s thrilled North Carolinians continue to flock to our state to help fund college scholarships for South Carolina’s students. But we are getting a little tired of Tar Heels cruising back across the state line with the multi-million dollar prize in their pockets.

We’d like to see someone from South Carolina take home the big bucks. OK, to put it more bluntly, we’d like to win.

Talk already has a pretty good idea of how to spend a $110 million jackpot. After all, we’ve spent the last five days thinking about it. Here’s what we would do with our winnings, right after, of course, we quit our job.

• Spend $20 million for a new Vista baseball stadium just so we could make USC coach Ray Tanner, Bombers president Rich Mozingo, and a whole lot of area baseball fans very happy. Talk About Town Field has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

• Pay New York City $10 million for its slogan, The Big Apple. That would once and for all solve our city’s slogan problems. And if it would help close the deal, Columbia could even kick back both The Big Friendly and It’s Happening Now to New York at no charge.

• Offer the NCAA a $20 million payout to stage a real national championship game between Southern Cal and LSU this Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium.

• Buy the governor’s mansion and surrounding grounds for $22 million as the new digs for the Talk family. The state could use the money, but even better, then we’d have a fancy home and fancier title — the King of Arsenal Hill — befitting our stature. (Naturally, we’d also be willing to help the Sanfords out by giving them $2,000 to relocate to Barkoot Luxury Apartments on Beltline Boulevard.)

• Give a $1 million bonus to USC basketball coach Dave Odom for directing his hard-working squad to a completely unexpected 13-1 record to start the season. While we’re at it, let’s throw in another $1 million to get Frank McGuire’s name back on the arena floor.

• Spend $1 million on a fleet of luxury automobiles. The kids have already put in their orders — a Hummer, a Mercedes, a Jeep Wrangler — and they’re not even old enough to drive yet. Like all rich people, we’d have about 15 luxury cars, including a Jaguar, a Porsche and a Lamborghini. But just to keep up that image of rich people being slightly eccentric, we’d do all of our driving around town in a ’75 Ford Pinto.

• Donate $10 million to a variety of deserving national charities, such as the Britney Spears Annulment Fund, the Pete Rose Reinstatement Foundation and the Barney Rubble Home for Retired Cartoon Actors.

• Drop $5 million on luxury vacations to all the places we’ve always wanted to go: Hawaii, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Nebraska, Japan, the Netherlands, Quebec and, of course, Lake City.

• Spend $5 on new Powerball tickets in hopes of hitting it big again.

• Give away $20 million to close relatives and maybe a few select friends. Distribute it as fairly as possible, with those who have shown us the most love getting the largest shares. It probably goes without saying that we’d give Uncle Dean at least a couple of million.

Because we know he would have done the same for us.

Reach White at (803) 771-8643 or ntwhite@thestate.com.