OT Test[ing again] - No need to reply

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Net Llama!:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Tom Wilson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:22, Jean Sagi wrote:
> > > Lotto? What do you mean?... Baloto perhaps...
> > >
> > > Chucho!
> >
> > 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.
> 
> As someone once said, the Lottery is a tax on the mathematically ignorant.

Right. The Optimists' Tax. That said, if I actually won the Powerball
Lottery (I don't play, so I won't win), you could call me mathematically
ignorant all you want.

But, as I said, I hardly every buy a lottery ticket, so I'm not likely
to win.

Kurt
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