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Title: The largest lotto jackpot ever.....
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Published: Mar 30, 2012
Author: Intertubes
Post Date: 2012-03-30 15:45:27 by Jethro Tull
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Around noon, it was up to 650M with the rubes buying more and more. One stat-guy noted that your chance of winning an Oscar was better than winning this bonanza. The official disclaimer was that the odds of winning was something like 1 in 800M. Lotto's - self-imposed taxes on the weak minded. imo Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson Yeah, the odds are awful - it makes drawing to an inside straight look like a sound bet. However, it is worth the 1 or 2 bucks I spend on it just to dream about what I would do if lightning struck.
Yep. I knew a guy who won the lotto here for a million when it first started, maybe 20 years ago. I don't remember his name anymore, but we always called him Bunky because he was so full of shit. When he won, he quit his job and moved back to Maryland where he came from, I guess. He was penniless & dead less than a year later in his 30s. Several years ago, 11 of us put up $100 each on a big jackpot: each of us got $3 back on our bet. My last lotto... On the other hand, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson has won 2 sizable pots here. Go figger. Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson I don't even know how the lottery works here, I don't think I've ever played. I think the state sold it off to a private company years ago for pennies on the dollar, as I recall. I know they sold off the 80/90 toll road and the MSA tobacco settlement for a pittance just to get fast-cash. Goobermunt is like a 14 year-old girl with a $100,000 limit credit card. I saw the same thing happen in California. A young guy in San Diego won a 4 mil jackpot and took the 200,000 for twenty years payout. Four months later he was broke and in jail. On the other hand, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson has won 2 sizable pots here. Go figger. That's why I never spend more than about $2. Even that is frivolity, but the odds are even worse if you don't play. I know what I'd do - in addition to charitable giving there's a nice little 5,000 acre spread in Chile with two trout rivers and a lake that I wouldn't mind retiring to. I'd raise cattle, apples, and dreams. "If you don't play, you can't win!!!!!!11" My money is staying in my wallet, it's a sucker's bet.
#2. To: Lod (#1)
#3. To: Lod (#1)
Lotto's - self-imposed taxes on the weak minded.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#4. To: Original_Intent, Esso, gamblers, 4 (#2)
#5. To: Lod (#4)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#6. To: Esso (#3)
He was penniless & dead less than a year later in his 30s.
#7. To: Lod (#4)
Several years ago, 11 of us put up $100 each on a big jackpot: each of us got $3 back on our bet. My last lotto...
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#9. To: X-15 (#8)
If I win, I will share with all my friends whose first and last names begin with Z.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
You know Zolla Ziegfield?!?!?
-Alex Kurtagic
#11. To: X-15 (#10)
Good heavens... Checking my Z list of friends, I find none. Oh well, they had their chance.
#12. To: Cynicom, X-15 (#9)
Zoe Zigbowbowbinski? I will share with all my friends whose first and last names begin with Z.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#13. To: Original_Intent (#7)
Sweet! Great luck with it. ...in addition to charitable giving there's a nice little 5,000 acre spread in Chile with two trout rivers and a lake that I wouldn't mind retiring to. I'd raise cattle, apples, and dreams.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson
#14. To: Lod (#13)
Thanks. Even if my shoulder won't let me flyfish anymore I could still have a ball. Not only that Cuban Cigars are legal in Chile. :-)
#15. To: abraxas (#12)
Nope. Guess I will have to find new friends. Zoe Zigbowbowbinski?
#16. To: Cynicom (#15)
Don't worry OM, you hit that lotto, you'll have close to 7 billion of them. I pity whoever gets that money. Guess I will have to find new friends.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#17. To: Esso (#16)
At my age there would be no time to "enjoy" the loot. Therefore the only solution would be to spread it around. Currently I help three students with tuition and expenses, sure could expand that program.
#18. To: Lod (#1)
L, we are selling Mega tickets at an insane rate. Sold over $400 on wednesday, Prolly more today.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#19. To: tom007 (#18)
Hoping that your store sells the winner. Here, anyway, the vendor gets a decent slice of the action.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
America: Israel's Handmaiden
#21. To: X-15 (#8) (Edited)
My money is staying in my wallet, it's a sucker's bet. Right! If you don't play you can't lose. A dollar might not get you much, but I am not going to throw it away. "If you don't play, you can't win!!!!!!11"
God is always good!
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