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shmokes:
Every year I buy a ticket for each of our stockings. And every year they don't hit the jackpot. This is ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---!

lilshawn:
"they" say one in three wins... i guess i'm the other of the two.  :dunno

Nephasth:
Hoping to win the lottery is a lot like wishing... Wish in one hand, ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in the other, and see which one fills up first.

wp34:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on December 28, 2011, 11:38:11 am ---Hoping to win the lottery is a lot like wishing... Wish in one hand, ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in the other, and see which one fills up first.

--- End quote ---

I've always loved that saying. 

In my Statistics class a few years ago the instructor went through an exercise to show the odds of winning the Powerball.  The zeroes went all the way across the blackboard.

I still play anyway occasionally.  If I won I would build one huge arcade I can tell you that.

shmokes:
Lol . . . I know. For example, people always compare your chances with winning the lottery with your chances of being struck by lightning. It's actually a really terrible comparison that doesn't begin to capture what a bad deal the lottery is. Your chances of being struck by lightning are astronomically better than winning the lottery. Odds of being struck by lightning in the U.S. are like 1 in a million. Odds of winning the big lottery jackpots are usually like 1 in 200 million, I think. So you're hundreds of times more likely to be struck by lightning.

Still, though, I think that of all people, I deserve to win, because I want it the most. So the universe should do this for me. Next Christmas for sure.

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