I'm in the office pool but I'd rather hit it big on a ticket I bought myself and several others around the country because most of my coworkers suck ***.
So who is buying a Powerball ticket?
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They'd sue you like crazy. That seems to be what happens a lot with those things.
I think everyone has fantasized about hitting the lottery and then telling their job/bosses to EAD.
I'd actually submit my 2-weeks notice. Thereafter, hire a couple big-*** bodyguards and make arrangements for delivering catered, outrageously awesome breakfasts and lunches for all 180 of my co-workers, except 2 particularly lazy d!ckheads. On the last day after work, throw a party from hell across the street at Flying Saucer-Austin, complimented by the most amazing craft beer selection ever seen in North America. Hire taxis to transport everybody home after the party.
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That would be hilarious especially if you reiterated that those two people were not allowed at all or simply cater to them but on their plates would simply be [poop]
I hope one of us hits it big so we can create our own brewery and set the craft beer world on fire.
Austin you are by your posts an interesting cat, pun intended.
Icarus. He flew too close to the sun.I'd say there's a huge population like that.
I remember when I lived in Ashland, this redneck criminal, David Lee Edwards, won the lottery. He would go to the mall and to Wal-Mart in a limousine and dressed in a trench coat. He bought some big house in Florida and lost it within five years. He also got a personal jet and so many cars his house looked like a car lot.
He was a meth-head though and died with no money after getting HIV.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...niless-12-years-scored-27million-jackpot.html
Who could have foreseen this guy going bankrupt and having a problem with drugs?
Oh, this is how it turned out for him.
I'm not in charge of the office pool so if I had a winning ticket on my own f'em.
The lottery! A tax on people that are bad at math.
Having said that, I'm in an office pool with about 40 others and I bought 5 numbers for myself on the way home today. When I win it I'm buying the island of Bora Bora and kicking everyone but me, girlfriend and a personal staff of about a dozen off it. :sunglasses:
Having said that, I'm in an office pool with about 40 others and I bought 5 numbers for myself on the way home today. When I win it I'm buying the island of Bora Bora and kicking everyone but me, girlfriend and a personal staff of about a dozen off it. :sunglasses:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...0-million-powerball-jackpot-article-1.1364075
She was 84 actually. And this is the lady the guy let go in front of him, and she bought quick picks. Unreal bad luck.
Her purse strap slung over her shoulder, she left the lottery offices in a silver Ford Focus with her son, Scott, and a financial advisor, ignoring questions shouted at her by reporters.
http://mashable.com/2016/01/07/reporter-powerball/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#sulJytxrOuqA
This guy is now my personal hero. He has the best way to spend the money.
This guy is now my personal hero. He has the best way to spend the money.
Lol, great show. I love how he honestly looks up and says I'd buy hookers and cocaine, as though it's the normal response lol
I was wrong. Jack Whitaker is alive. His daughter and granddaughter died. Her boyfriend as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_(lottery_winner)
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I still don't know why someone hasn't created a reality show around instant millionaires and following them around to see what they'd do. I think it would be hilarious tv. The Kardashians don't count.
I'd buy all the houses surrounding my wife's ex boss & move in meth addicts. I'd rat hole that rotten sumbitch. Of course, it would all appear as charity on my part.
Saw this graph a few years ago when the Mega Millions was 650+. Statistically more likely that 2, 3, 4, or 5 winning tickets are sold than just 1 winning ticket. Odds may be slightly different for Powerball, but probably not much.
I always buy one ticket because I feel if you win its just destiny. Those who spend hundreds of dollars are complete idiots. I stood behind a woman about 5 years ago when the PB was at a huge amount and this lady literally spent $200 on tickets. Saw her outside when I left and she is driving some beat up car with 3 kids and very obvious she had no business spending $200 on tickets.
I am torn on winning it. That kind of money could be a complete curse. Everyone will want a piece of you. My family would be vultures. Criminals would plan strategies on how to get your money. List is long.
If I won it, I would have to come up with a way to claim it but not get my name out there. Maybe legally change my name or something like that. Probably even work for a length of time not to tip folks off that I won. Its one of those things that is easy to think about, but if you won that kind of money who the heck knows how your mind reacts. If you did it right, that kind of money would take care of you and family for generations to come.
I am torn on winning it. That kind of money could be a complete curse. Everyone will want a piece of you. My family would be vultures. Criminals would plan strategies on how to get your money. List is long.
If I won it, I would have to come up with a way to claim it but not get my name out there. Maybe legally change my name or something like that. Probably even work for a length of time not to tip folks off that I won. Its one of those things that is easy to think about, but if you won that kind of money who the heck knows how your mind reacts. If you did it right, that kind of money would take care of you and family for generations to come.
Most of us do not buy a ticket expecting to win. Most of us buy a ticket to daydream.
A guy I work with won 200k on cash ball last month. Got me interested in this powerball. I bought a ticket for the last drawing and I'll buy one tomorrow. But I don't do it regularly.
Was discussing this at work. I'm not in the office pool. But IF I win, I will have a nicely typed, double spaced list of all the people that can kiss my rich flat black ***.
Throw out a generation, no. But steroids CERTAINLY (not Maybe) made a huge difference to many stars of that era. In the first 14 years of his career, Barry Bonds averaged 31.8 HRs per season. Then at age 35 he starts taking steriods with BALCO and averages 51.6 HRs per season for the next five seasons. That is a 62% increase in production at a time when most players are in rapid decline.
BTW, I think that your post and my response fit better in the Griffey Jr. thread.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bondsba01.shtml
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No big deal. You can buy your son all the steroids he needs if you win Powerball.
Just met with our financial planner last night. He was telling us about a client who was a large powerball winner within the past couple of years. She sounds like a pretty messed up (but now rich) woman.
I bet Jonathan would buy $700 million worth of children's board games to play at his adult parties.
Now, now Dsmith. Jonathan is a family man. I'm sure his kids and wife would not appreciate him having a $700 million dollar talking Taylor Swift sex robot
Sorry, I was thinking of Mossip and his "Talor Swift Appreciation" thread. Apologies to Jonathan.