You won't win if you do play.

The only time I play is when PowerBall gets to like $150 mil, then I piss away $5 on tickets and daydream about all of the stuff I'd buy for a few days. That's about all it's good for.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

(insert your state name)

What has six balls and screws Texans?
The Texas Lottery.

OR

“The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math”

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

This sounds like a pretty good come back to me.
You answered your own question

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I'm sick of .sig files

"well the jerk store called, and they're all out of you"

George Costanza.

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Jonathan

2011 Mazda2
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1994 C280 (retired)

"That's the same thing that nice Nigerian prince said in his last email."

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

Odds for those lotteries are generally in the 1 in 20 million range. Houston has 3 million people in it and it's a big freakin' city. So I imagine 6 Houstons with six times the people, then I imagine God reaching from the sky and randomly touching a single person on the head. There's your lottery winner, and why I don't play. Lotteries are voluntary taxes; no thanks.

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

I assume the lottery is based on those numbered balls.

Here's a test: http://www.webmath.com/lottery.html

I entered a simple lottery with the following constraints:

You must choose a sequence of 5 numbers correctly to win.
The lowest number you can choose is 2
The highest number you can choose is 55
A given number can only be chosen once per try (per lottery ticket, etc.)

The resultant chance of winning is 1/54 × 1/53 × 1/52 × 1/51 × 1/50 = 1/379,501,200 or one chance in about 380 million.

Now let's say the lottery ticket costs $5 and I buy 1 ticket per week, 52 tickets/ year for say, 20 years. 52 * 20 * $5 = $5,200 spent on tickets.

How has purchasing 1020 tickets improved my odds?

Basically, 380,000,000/1,000 = 380,000. In other words, after 20 years of buying weekly tickets my chances of winning are about the same as dying from a fireworks discharge in the USA (http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm)

Somebody who knows how to compute compound interest from regular deposits can probably provide you with the 20 year investment return from $5/week. I'll bet it's $15k-$20k at say, the S&P 20 yr average change.

oh you know him too, huh? he emails me at least once a week. seems like a nice enough guy.

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Jennifer
90 350sdl

That IS a snappy comeback, Bot. Now, if only Jentay can remember all of that and rattle it off the next time the subject arises . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Yep. He says the lottery is for suckers, and your more likley to break even if you work with him on getting some of that oil money out of country, but you've got to be willing to play.

Do you still have that horse trailer for sale btw, I can have courier delivey of bank check for $8,724.06 for imediiate pay! ONLY IF YOU CAN FEFUND DIFFERENCE CAN WE DEAL MAKE A. God blesses you very much more to make this deal fastest possible by the way. Oh and remember don't by lottery tickets those guys are never paying me.

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

Busted!

Crap.

Oh well.

That's the kind of argument that works for me. But then... I don't buy the damned things because my chance of winning is about equal to the chance of dying by being frozen to death. And I live in Louisiana.

I invest in several broad-based mutual funds. That's my gambling. And it doesn't look too good this week!

B

Yeah, this week a lottery ticket might have been a better investment.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

my brain hurts.....Vanguard Wellington Fund....
did you know there are 281 million people in the US and only 637,000 are pilots?

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

You and your love of numbers . . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Tell them they would be better off putting it into a Roth IRA, over say 40 years it adds up...

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200