Hey Marlow MEGA MILLIONS' is now at $82.8 MIL

[lonewolf]

The Conoco station where I buy my weekly ticket actually had a $1,000,000 winner this spring. I don't know if this means it is a hot spot or has used up its statistical probability of selling another winner. :?

[Marlow]

gh--you really do have to lighten up. For the price of two beers(domestic), I got plenty of bang for my buck(s). And this might be the closest I'll ever come to winning the "big one"-

Bingo. The sugar and caffeine in one Pepsi and Snickers bar is all the excitement I can handle. Life is good. Live and let live. It's the little joys in life (like buying a potentially WINNING ticket) that sustain us.

[Walt Murphy]

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.

gh--you really do have to lighten up. For the price of two beers(domestic), I got plenty of bang for my buck(s). And this might be the closest I'll ever come to winning the "big one"--I not only live in Queens, I live in the Jamaica section of the borough where the winning ticket was sold!

[tandfman]

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.

How can he possibly afford to do this? I doubt if his profit on what you buy is greater than what the ticket costs him.

[wineturtle]

got none

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

Drats


If by Shel Silverstein

If I had wheels instead of feet
And roses ‘stead of eyes
Then I could drive to the flower show
And maybe win a prize.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Jack Slocombe]

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

[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:

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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!