It is said that the odds of one getting killed on the way to buy a lottery ticket , are better than the odds of winning the lottery (er….provided one buys a ticket)
wicky, many years ago for a humerous essay I calculated that if you drove something like a half mile to buy a lottery ticket in New York you were more likely to be killed or injured than to win, but that it didn’t really matter because there was no need to drive so far to get one
Richardelguru, thank you and I reckon it matters where one lives, what you say is true, and out here on the left coast if I want a ticket I gotta drive about five miles, but I could be kicked by a mule.
Shoe never wears a shirt because he lost them all!
I sure wish Common Sense was! (It is no longer common and what IS common is not sense!)
I also miss Dr. Demento.
Guilden_NL - I agree! It’s a 4-year catastrophe based upon knotheads who “just wanted to see what would happen”. Now we’re seeing - as we rush headlong into Big Brother on steroids!!
Rush fans: the economy is turning around. Stock market is going up and layoffs have slowed down for the first time since the huge monthly tally when Bush started the collapse. There’s more to life than what you see on Fox News.
Yukoner over 15 years ago
Lotteries and other betting schemes are simply a form of taxation reserved for the mathematically challenged.
Jml58 over 15 years ago
I never said that I did the math.
quinones.felix over 15 years ago
A lottery is a form of a retirement system that never seems reachable.
lewisbower over 15 years ago
Gambling let the poor enjoy supporting the government
sarge112751 over 15 years ago
My ‘Pappy” once told me; “sonny, if you WANT to double your money - FOLD IT IN HALF and stick it BACK in your pocket!”
(Pssst! - it WORKS too!)
TiggerLeBounce over 15 years ago
::ROFL!:: Good point about horse sense!
wicky over 15 years ago
It is said that the odds of one getting killed on the way to buy a lottery ticket , are better than the odds of winning the lottery (er….provided one buys a ticket)
Silverpearl over 15 years ago
So true.
crazyolnick over 15 years ago
W.C. Fields said the same thing.. Look up his gratest quotes…..
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member over 15 years ago
wicky, many years ago for a humerous essay I calculated that if you drove something like a half mile to buy a lottery ticket in New York you were more likely to be killed or injured than to win, but that it didn’t really matter because there was no need to drive so far to get one
ted.hering over 15 years ago
There was a song by Kay Kaiser in the 1940s called “Horses Don’t Bet on People.”
aerwalt over 15 years ago
The Track: Where the windows clean the people.
benbrilling over 15 years ago
ted.herring:
I used to listen to that song on the radio when I was a teenager. Doctor Demento played it all the time.
BlackHatDude over 15 years ago
If birds can bet on horses, I guess its a good dis that horses don’t bid on birds.
caddy.1957 over 15 years ago
Ben Brilling….I hated to see Dr DeMento go off the local radio station here Sunday evenings are so boring now.
KinkyTurtle over 15 years ago
He never even wears a shirt!
ArtyG over 15 years ago
I find my chances of winning the lottery are the same whether I buy a ticket or not.
wicky over 15 years ago
Richardelguru, thank you and I reckon it matters where one lives, what you say is true, and out here on the left coast if I want a ticket I gotta drive about five miles, but I could be kicked by a mule.
Guilden_NL over 15 years ago
A bunch of horse’s patoots bet on a person based on hopey, changey and boy did they (and their neighbors) lose big time!
treBsdrawkcaB over 15 years ago
Shoe never wears a shirt because he lost them all!
I sure wish Common Sense was! (It is no longer common and what IS common is not sense!)
I also miss Dr. Demento.
Guilden_NL - I agree! It’s a 4-year catastrophe based upon knotheads who “just wanted to see what would happen”. Now we’re seeing - as we rush headlong into Big Brother on steroids!!
treBsdrawkcaB over 15 years ago
p.s. - I always prefer to get my information from the horses’ mouth - instead of the other end of the horse…
benbrilling over 15 years ago
Rush fans: the economy is turning around. Stock market is going up and layoffs have slowed down for the first time since the huge monthly tally when Bush started the collapse. There’s more to life than what you see on Fox News.