in reply to Re: Re: Re: Lottery combinations golf
in thread Lottery combinations golf

Do I really need to say that I lead a quiet, industrious life, am buying property, investing, have insurance and so on, but I also play the lottery? It seems like you all think I must be some kind of vagrant or otherwise lead a completely dissolute life simply because I play the lottery.

I used to live, through an accident of fate, in a part of town that was just packed to the gills with millionaires. The average home would have been the other side of two million -- but believe me, those people did their lottery entries every week just the same as the poor people. 


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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Lottery combinations golf
by tilly (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2003 at 05:15 UTC
    I was making no accusation about you. Just commenting on generalities about people who save money, and those who play lotteries.

    Oh. And I also intended that to be my way of pointing out that my odds of "winning" a million dollars are rather good, lottery or no lottery.

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      OK, no offence meant, none taken.

      And real estate being what it is, yes, simply by paying off my mortgage I will eventually have a million dollars, I guess.

      But if I win a million tonight at 8.30, that's nice too. 


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