I was just in my local whiskey store. The Powerball jackpot has gone up.

[Moondog]

Now at $600 million. Yeah, the odds are something like 1 in 175 million. Still, I broke down and bought a couple.

It's An Event, you know?

Part of the zeitgeist.

I just felt I should participate.

Even though it is basically a tax on those with poor math skills.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. The last time it went this high

there were two winners. Hope they are both in FL!

[Moondog]

4. Yes. Absolutely.

Good luck to us both, then!

[Callmecrazy]

14. Your lips to God's ear

Maybe it'll be you and me.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

19. Why not us?

[Jeff R]

2. Real astronomical odds:

But hell you could buy you a distillery, the heck with the bottle.

[Moondog]

3. And I could go to Scotland to do it!

[Jeff R]

20. And to think.

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You could buy the little castle next door to have a berth, until your private jet came to take you on the next adventure.

[Moondog]

23. Tempting . . . .

[rocktivity]

5. I once had to insist that I wanted to enter the liquor store to buy liquor

and not to cut in front of a lottery line!


rocktivity

[Moondog]

6. That's the weird thing.

There wasn't a lottery line. The guy that came in behind me, though, said that there was a line several dozen people long in the grocery store next door. There's a lesson there somewhere . . . .

[In_The_Wind]

7. It's just for fun.

[Moondog]

13. Exactly!

And if I had a nickel for every time I've said those words to myself, and ended up in deep, deep shit, I'd have a corner on the nickel market.

[Locut0s]

8. Yeah it's in the news up here too. Even thought for a sec of crossing the border...

to buy a ticket or two. Down by Blaine Washington. But only for a second. Might has well play the local lotto with those odds, it's ONLY one in about 15 million here Even with those odds I'd have to play for about 288 thousand years at a ticket a week before being likely to win.

[Moondog]

12. Honestly, if I

hadn't already been in there and saw that there was no line at all, I doubt that I would have bothered. I am the poster child for "the unlucky". It's not that I have bad luck, and bad stuff happens to me. I just don't have good luck, so I never win anything where chance is involved. So, I rarely bother. But today I did.

[Locut0s]

15. Well good luck to you!...

Pssst.. Shoot me a few k if you win

[Moondog]

17. Heh. Thanks.

[Scuba]

9. I bought 175,000,000 tickets. Should be a good investment.

[Moondog]

10. As long as you didn't get any duplicates . . . .

[Scuba]

11. Oooooh, I better check. Thanks!

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. Did you buy whiskey?

I understand the math on whiskey. At least that's what I say after 3-4 drinks.

[Moondog]

18. Yes, sure did.

Bought some good (single malt) scotch, and some rotgut (blended) scotch. Also a bottle of Cointreau - I have a friend that drinks it now and again, and was nearly out - and it was on sale.

[Callalily]

21. YUM! Cointreau! Just saying! n/t

[Moondog]

22. When you're in the mood, it's quite good.

And then, of course, there is the fact that Cointreau is memorialized in a Paul Henreid line in no less a flick than "Casablanca".

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. The Cointreau is on sale because Cinco De Mayo has passed

(widely used in Margaritas)

You sound vaguely like my Dad. He's a single-malt drinker. I'll stick with Johnnie Walker Black.

[Stuart G]

24. I looked at what else can be won...yes indeed...so

I will not be upset, if I get one million. I will take one million indeed...Would you???

[Moondog]

26. Sure. I could find some way or another to piss it away frivolously . . . .

[Arctic Dave]

25. I was in Oakland this week. Had to buy some.

I do anytime I go to a state with power ball.

[Moondog]

27. Worst case is that you

have to go back to CA to cash in the winner. I suspect you could manage that.

[Arctic Dave]

28. I think I could swing that.

It's been twenty two years since I've last been to CA.

[Stuart G]

29. Now I finally figured out, what I got for my two dollars...

For two dollars I got the right to obsess about winning lots of money.

[Moondog]

30. Yeah, for about 36 hours more. Enjoy!

[Baitball Blogger]

32. I am one in 175 million.

Just say'n.