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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

Lod  posted on  2012-03-30   16:09:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Lod (#1)

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.

Perseverent Gardener
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-03-30   16:16:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Lod (#1)

Lotto's - self-imposed taxes on the weak minded.

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.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2012-03-30   16:39:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Original_Intent, Esso, gamblers, 4 (#2)

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

Lod  posted on  2012-03-30   17:00:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Lod (#4)

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.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2012-03-30   17:08:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Esso (#3)

He was penniless & dead less than a year later in his 30s.

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.

Perseverent Gardener
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-03-30   17:15:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#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...

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.

Perseverent Gardener
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-03-30   17:20:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

"If you don't play, you can't win!!!!!!11"

My money is staying in my wallet, it's a sucker's bet.

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2012-03-30   17:31:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: X-15 (#8)

If I win, I will share with all my friends whose first and last names begin with Z.

Cynicom  posted on  2012-03-30   17:34:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Cynicom (#9)

You know Zolla Ziegfield?!?!?

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2012-03-30   17:38:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: X-15 (#10)

Good heavens...

Checking my Z list of friends, I find none.

Oh well, they had their chance.

Cynicom  posted on  2012-03-30   17:41:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Cynicom, X-15 (#9)

I will share with all my friends whose first and last names begin with Z.

Zoe Zigbowbowbinski?

" 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

abraxas  posted on  2012-03-30   17:55:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Original_Intent (#7)

...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.

Sweet! Great luck with it.

Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson

Lod  posted on  2012-03-30   18:05:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#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. :-)

Perseverent Gardener
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-03-30   18:26:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: abraxas (#12)

Zoe Zigbowbowbinski?

Nope.

Guess I will have to find new friends.

Cynicom  posted on  2012-03-30   18:27:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Cynicom (#15)

Guess I will have to find new friends.

Don't worry OM, you hit that lotto, you'll have close to 7 billion of them. I pity whoever gets that money.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2012-03-30   18:59:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#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.

Cynicom  posted on  2012-03-30   19:05:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#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" Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith

tom007  posted on  2012-03-30   19:20:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#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

Lod  posted on  2012-03-30   19:35:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#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

Eric Stratton  posted on  2012-03-30   19:37:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: X-15 (#8) (Edited)

"If you don't play, you can't win!!!!!!11"

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.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2012-03-30   23:25:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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