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Condon Thomas A KPWA
tcondon
Mon May 17 11:53:14 PDT 2004
Tom Wilson wrote:
> Here in America, many states have what they call a Lotto. What
> happens is you go to a local convenience store and purchase a Lotto
> ticket for a US $1 a ticket. They usually have 6 numbers on them
> from 1 to 40 or so. Then once a week they draw numbers out of a
> contraption that has a bunch of numbered ping pong balls in it and
> you hope that the six you picked (or had randomly generated) on your
> ticket are the same six that pop up out of the ball machine. Is so
> you win the jackpot of generally some tens to hundreds of millions of
> dollars.
>
> Most people don't win. Thus you have to pretty lucky if you do.
In some places this is called the "Optimist's Tax".
Tom :-})
Thomas A. Condon
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