The author of BEATING UP DADDY and ''The Other Worst-Case Scenario'' web site shares his random insights.
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Tuesday, July 8
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
by Gene
I caved. I now have a Facebook account. Forgive me.
Is that cruel? I don't know. I just don't really understand what was expected here. I mean, this isn't like the lottery, where a single drawing is done after everyone's gotten their ticket and so on. It's a scratch ticket with multiple winning tickets including one with a very large payout. If you're buying a scratch ticket seriously thinking you have a shot at the grand prize something has already gone terribly wrong in your life.
Who is in first place, again? No, seriously.
The Tampa Bay Rays are in first place in the American League East. If I had just woken up from a coma and you'd told me that it was July and the Rays led the East, I would be counting my medication to see if you'd been sampling.
Comments:
you may think him a loser, but the guy has a point.
People buy lottery tickets with the hope that they'll win the advertised prize. People don't buy them hoping for "congratulations! you won another ticket" or "you won $3."
He's definitely got a point; one valid enough that Otto said that it's no longer possible to buy tickets with no top prize as advertised.
People buy lottery tickets with the hope that they'll win the advertised prize. People don't buy them hoping for "congratulations! you won another ticket" or "you won $3."
He's definitely got a point; one valid enough that Otto said that it's no longer possible to buy tickets with no top prize as advertised.
All right Bob. So would you sue McDonald's for not canceling their Monopoly game as soon as the grand prize was awarded?
The difference is the McD's actively advertises the winnings & winners.
Years ago when a third-tier Prize was a Saleen Mustang (my then-favorite car), and I was a game piece away, it was nice to know when it became pointless to keep looking for that peice because some jackass in KY had won it :-(
In this guy's case, they didn't used to advertise it, but instead kept selling tickets as if "you could WIN XXXXX!"
When the reality was you couldn't.
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Years ago when a third-tier Prize was a Saleen Mustang (my then-favorite car), and I was a game piece away, it was nice to know when it became pointless to keep looking for that peice because some jackass in KY had won it :-(
In this guy's case, they didn't used to advertise it, but instead kept selling tickets as if "you could WIN XXXXX!"
When the reality was you couldn't.