Hey Marlow MEGA MILLIONS' is now at $82.8 MIL

[Marlow]

Our net proceeds of $53,820,000.00 is pretty impressive but I want you to know, I will still continue to be the humble, soft spoken, moderate person you have come to know. !

I'll send you the info to wire my part into my numbered account in the Caymans.

[Jack Slocombe]

Our net proceeds of $53,820,000.00 is pretty impressive but I want you to know, I will still continue to be the humble, soft spoken, moderate person you have come to know. !

I'll send you the info to wire my part into my numbered account in the Caymans.

What!!! no hand delivery of $100 dollar bills in Jacksonville?

[Marlow]

[quote=Jack Slocombe]

Our net proceeds of $53,820,000.00 is pretty impressive but I want you to know, I will still continue to be the humble, soft spoken, moderate person you have come to know. !

I'll send you the info to wire my part into my numbered account in the Caymans.

What!!! no hand delivery of $100 dollar bills in Jacksonville?[/quote:3szdmocr]
Too tacky. That's sooooo 20th Century. With my Caymans account, everything is in gold bullion, so when MattMarriott's End Times draw near, I'm ready to capitalize!

[wineturtle]

Me, Me, I, I, Mine, Mine, Me,Me

I hate to rain on your landingstrip guys but I have a ticket and expect to cash it in for the top prize. 8-) :!: .

[Jack Slocombe]

Re: Me, Me, I, I, Mine, Mine, Me,Me

I hate to rain on your landingstrip guys but I have a ticket and expect to cash it in for the top prize. 8-) :!: .

You will get the 1st five numbers but will be one short on the mega. Sorry.

This baby is all mine.

[gh]

What a letdown. I would have thought the average person on our Boards was too smart to (not to mention classy) than to indulge in this kind of sucker's game. Bernie Madoff loves guys like you!

[Marlow]

What a letdown. I would have thought the average person on our Boards was too smart to (not to mention classy) than to indulge in this kind of sucker's game. Bernie Madoff loves guys like you!

Then please notice that I ain't expending a nickel!
On the other hand, I'm sure you NEVER do anything to 'waste' your money, huh? :P

[Jack Slocombe]

What a letdown. I would have thought the average person on our Boards was too smart to (not to mention classy) than to indulge in this kind of sucker's game. Bernie Madoff loves guys like you!

It's the chase Garry. You must be having a bad day, lighten up.

[Jack Slocombe]

There was a winner, but not in Calif. Sigh. Could it be Wineturtle?

Winner was in Queens, NY. Wineturtle says he's from Queens, NY.

[tandfman]

What a letdown. I would have thought the average person on our Boards was too smart to (not to mention classy) than to indulge in this kind of sucker's game. Bernie Madoff loves guys like you!

Nah, Madoff stole lots of people's money--in some cases all of it. The lottery has nothing to do with reality. It's buying three days of fantacizing for a buck. It's a bargain.

Of course, for some, it's a bonanza. Someone did, after all, win that $130 million, or whatever it was. Too smart not to play? I'd love to have been that smart.

[Marlow]

As they say, ya gotta enter to win, and SOMEbody's gotta win, sooner or later. Sure, it's a sucker's bet (I think the odds are much better that you'll be struck by lightning), but as noted above, for those three days, the Fun Factor is very high. I have never bought a ticket, but I sure don't begrudge those that do it OCCASIONALLY (I do have a problem with the fact that some people are gambling addicts and can't afford all the tickets they're buying).

When I was deployed to Iceland one winter, I played the quarter slot machines in the Officers' Club, winning sometimes, losing most of the time. Probably lost $100 in 6 months. The guys who went to the bar and bought booze spent a lot more than I, and didn't have as much fun! And I had no hangover in the morning. :twisted:

[Jack Slocombe]

Have not heard from wineturtle. He either had a heart attact or is doing a ton of paperwork.

[gh]

What a letdown. I would have thought the average person on our Boards was too smart to (not to mention classy) than to indulge in this kind of sucker's game. Bernie Madoff loves guys like you!

Then please notice that I ain't expending a nickel!
On the other hand, I'm sure you NEVER do anything to 'waste' your money, huh? :P

I waste more money than god can make, but a least I make sure I spend it that things that guarantee some bang for the buck rather than contributing to a selective tax on the poor.

[Marlow]

I spend it that things that guarantee some bang for the buck rather than contributing to a selective tax on the poor.

It's all in the perspective. Everyone does something that somebody else thinks is unconscionably stoopid. Buying the ticket is some people's idea of a big bang.

[BisonHurdler]

Virtually every time I go to the Sunoco station down the street for milk or a quick drink, the owner gives me a free MegaMillions lottery ticket. His assumption, presumably, is that I'll share the Millions with him, should I win.