Conference back40::soapbox

    Don`t open the door.
    Disown my family.
    Open brothel and let them take care of my friends.

     Tell them to buy their own tickets.

    
    
    You've got enough there to hire someone for a month or so to screen all
    the incoming stuff...
    
     Make it short and sweet...
    
     If necessary, we'll bet back to you... bye!
    

    Remain anonymous and continue my life as before
    (well...maybe with a few more toys...).
    

    
    $5-million, huh?
    
    $500,000 - to mom
    $500,000 - to my sister
    $1,000,000 - allocated between various charities
    $1,000,000 - soundly invested
    $1,000,000 - divided amongst good friends
    $1,000,000 - house, car, assorted toys, dining out, etc.
    
    ...and a two-four of OV for my dad.
    

>    ...and a two-four of OV for my dad.


OV? O'Keefe's?

    
    Old Vienna.
    

    
    
    	I'd give some to my folks, very little to my brother (cuz
    	he'd spend it on stupid stuff), pay off the medical bills
    	for my grandmother for however much longer she might be here,
    	and then throw the biggest danged party I could.  =)
    

Almost all lotteries are annuities paid out over 20 to 30 years.  Taxes are
taken off the top.  So that $5,000,000 prize is maybe $150,000 a year.

    
    In Ontario the biggies (Lotto 6/49, Super 7, etc.) are paid out in one
    lump sum.  There was talk of making the winnings taxable, but to my
    knowledge the winning are still tax-free.  However, interest or gains
    on any money invested would be taxed.
    

    a BD-10 (aka Peregrine)

                    
    Hummmmm............... if I had that kind of money...........
    
    Be as generous with our families as they have been with us over the
    years
    
    Travel around a bit
    
    Build an indoor riding rink for all my friends
    
    Invest it wisely 
    
    Mary
    

    Don't forget the training to fly the thing...Start with a T-38:-)
    
    Bob

Assuming I'd actuall get 3M out of the 5M:

Set up a trust and invest for alternate income for my youngest brother so that
he may finally become independant.

Educational trusts for my kids, nieces and nefews.

Retirement investments (also alternate income generating).

Charity donations in support of Big Brother/Sister and other organizations
which promote volunteerism in bettering the lives of the less fortunate.


A siginificant change in lifestyle  :-)

Doug.

    Flee for the Caribbean, hopefully one step ahead of my ex-wife's 
    "junkyard dog" of a lawyer.  ;^)

    
    
    1.  Pick up my check
    2.  Head straight to the airport
    3.  Take off to some island
    4.  Send family and close friends airline tickets to 
        come join me.
    5.  Call the boss, tell him I'll be back when I get 
        back (if I even come back) and see if he and his
        family would like to come join us also.
    6.  Decide how and where I want to spend the rest of 
        our lifes.
    
    

    
    pay off lady di to stop giving me $#!+ about the penis thing... :-)
    
    -b

    
    Penis and penis, what is penis?
    

    
>>    pay off lady di to stop giving me $#!+ about the penis thing... :-)

	and what would you do with the remaining million? ;>

    resign and head to Europe... 

    Take a little out of each check to play with, and invest the rest. 
    When the interest yield exceeds my current income, retire.

    .14
    
    Just think...you could change it to:
    
    "Less than 600kts is TOOslow!"
    
    (130kts, for now - it's than dang gear. Seems to be welded in place.)

    interesting that it took so long for someone to say 'quit'...
    
    Loyal DECcie's only, I see.
    
    :^)

    
    $750K for my mother
    $750K for my sister
    $1M to St.Lawrence for a scholarship in my father's name
    $1M for charity - veterans and animals
    $1.5M for me and that special someone to run off to the Cayman Islands
          together
    
    
    

    
    
    I'd keep it all and dole it out as necessary.  Stockpile most of it and
    then invest it.  With the interest I could make yearly donations to
    charity and help family every year instead of all of it going at once.
    
    Mike

    Shoot! I wouldn't give any of it away.  I'd buy an island off the coast
    of Scotland, a satelite dish, an Eazy-Boy Recliner, and a 2000 gallon 
    tank for the Harvey's Amontillado (sherry).

    educational trusts for my four daughters
    set aside money for four weddings, downpayment money for four houses
    create a major investment portfolio
    tour the Loire, c�te d'or, rh�ne, Alsace, Bordeaux, Rhine, Mosel,
    Tuscany, Piedmont, Kaliph
    stock my cellar
    buy a new car
    put in a pool for the kiddies
    buy prime vineyard land in Russian River Valley or Dry Creek

    Here's my list:
    
    1.  Buy a great big house with inground pool.
    2.  Buy hubby new truck.
    3.  Buy me a new car.
    4.  Buy me a new Harley.
    5.  Set up a "The MacFawn Girls Need to Go To College" Fund.
    6.  Set up a "You Have Girls Who Will Want "In" Clothes and Makeup and
        CD's and stuff" fund.
    7.  Buy mom and dad a vacation cottage on the lake.
    8.  Invest (if I have any left).
    
    
    
    
    

    re: .23 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Bob

    5 mil over 20 years in MA.  50K/year/mil pretax, figure you will net 50% 
    so 125K/year.  Not a lot of money in future $ speak.  The Doctah and
    Binder have the plans that will most likely net the best return.  Don't
    plan on retiring if you are under 35 and wish to provide for a
    comfortable future for your family.  On the other hand, you can buy
    some time to look for other employment if you find you are in a
    situation you do not enjoy.  
    
    I would do the following.  
    
    1st, get an unlisted number.
    2nd, speak with my accountant and attorney.
    
    Year 1: the stabilizing year
    
    Retire the debt on folks house.
    Sell my house and build buy new one.  
    Pay off nephew's school loans
    Pay for niece's schooling.  
    Invest remainder with the goal of retiring by 45.  
    
    After that, manage it wisely.  
    

	Give to the family, give a set amount to charity, give to the people I
USED to owe money to, give to new items, give to uncle sam. With the latter it
means I only have $2 to spend on the 1st 4 items.... :-)

    
    
    closer to .31 (brian's)
    ... take care of business - investments etc
    ... take care of parents
    ... upgrade/buy new sailboat
    ... complete circumnavigation (half done) - leasurely!
    
    

    >>> ... complete circumnavigation (half done) - leasurely!
    
    Heals a LOT faster if ya do it all, and QUICKLY.
    

    
    
    re .34
    
    ha, ha, ha!!! talk about putting doubt in my linguistic
    ability... I actually double-checked the word! and thank
    goodness it was the right one! whew!
    
    yeah - we did the Boston - Panama Canal -Hawaii - SF route,
    so one of these days, I'd like to completely sail ONE ocean.
    (instead of parts of many).
    

    Get very drunk.

 I don't play the lottery, so I'll never win, thank you.



 Jim

    I'd still eat Kraft Dinner

    1. hold a VERY large box-bash!
    2. make large contributions to favorite charities
    3. develop a strong portfolio
    4. travel to europe
    5. build a large, secluded house in maine

    
    1.  Fall to my knees and thank God.
    
    2.  Quit job, and take my documentation of grievances between
        the contract employees here and the contractor that employs us
        to the New Hampshire Labor Board (which I intend to do anyway 
        when I quit this job.  I will not be the first to have done this,
        but hopefully I will have been meticulous enough in my record-
        keeping that I will be able to finally persuade the Board to 
        do something.  I owe that much to the guys who work here.)
    
    3.  Call my brother and sister together, and split the money so that
        each of us has enough to be able to scrape by for the rest of our
        lives without ever having to work again.  Anything left over goes
        to my mother, so that she is able to enjoy her retirement.
    
    4.  If I have enough, buy guitars for my musician brother and nice
        prezzies (jewelry, perhaps) for my sister and mother.
    
        Buy a small house (I have vowed never to get married, and never
        to trouble the unhappy world with a new generation of Cashmons)
        up in the woods of rural New Hampshire.  There, I can live as a
        hermit, raving in my incoherent, incomprehensible delusions, and
        have a sand berm out back where I can shoot my new toys -- the
        current government-acceptable versions of the M16 (Colt Sporter?), 
        AKS, MAC-10, Schmeisser machine pistol, Thompson submachine gun, 
        and perhaps a few other goodies.  :-)  I will also have a power
        rack with a few Olympic barbells and loads of black iron.
    
    I think that about covers it.  Pay off my debts, move to the woods, 
    lift, shoot, hunt, eat red meat, drink whiskey, kill the pain of 
    reality, and die having made my peace with the world as much as is
    possible.
    
    
    
    Rob

    well, i'd:
    
    	pay off any bills i had
    	buy a decent car
    	buy a modest home
    	buy a house for my father
    	pay off my grandparents house
    	set up some sort of trust for my 3 youngest siblings
    	pay off/buy something for my brother
    	give a given amount to a couple of charities
    	with whats left, find a lawyer and accountant and manage the rest 
    	  so that i am not broke in 5 years.
    
    

	i'd hire ::markey to teach me the jerry riff.

    
      I win the lottery every day.  It's easy, abstain.
    
      bb

	A guy I used to work with said he would come into work in a ripped
t-shirt, shorts, sandels, and holding a 16 oz can of Bud. He would stand up on
a table, pointing and laughing at all the poor people. :-)

    
    I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I think I've got
    it....

    1) purchase suitable pieces of jewelry for each of the GORGEOUS 'BOXBABES
       ( yes I know that GORGEOUS 'BOXBABES is a tautology. :-) )
    2) pay off my current debts.
    3) donate a big chunk o' money to NRA-ILA
    4) buy my mom an Mercedes 600 SC
    5) buy my self an Ferarei (sp?) F40 .....NICE, NICE, CAR
    6) and I have my eye on a nice little (private) island somewhere in the 
       tropics... Of course I'd send first class airline tickets to the
       'boxbabes so they could vacation with me....

    etc, etc, etc.... I could go on for days....

    :-))))))))

re .45:

You forgot the part about buying the world's most expensive vacuum cleaner.

    zzzzzZZZZZZZZINGGEROOOOOOO!!! :-)
    

    
    1. Hire someone to do my Notesfile entries.
    
    2. Throw my state-of-the-art Microvax 3100 out the nearest 8th floor
       window.
    
    3. Park myself, my family, and the cash offshore.
    
    4. Sit on a beach, drink in hand and ogle my aerobics-instructor wife 
       in a bikini (she in the bikini, not me).

    I think hell has a better chance of becoming an ice-skating rink than
    having me win the lottery.
    
    Let's see...no chance of winning the lottery, no rich relatives with
    big estates, married for love not money, no movie-star fathered my
    children, Digital doesn't give raises...yep, that's it...I'll be poor 
    for the rest of my life!
    
    

    sounds like Dan is in dire need of companionship...

| <<< Note 526.46 by NOTIME::SACKS "Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085" >>>


| You forgot the part about buying the world's most expensive vacuum cleaner.

	I think he already has that.....

>    4. Sit on a beach, drink in hand and ogle my aerobics-instructor wife 
>       in a bikini (she in the bikini, not me).

You have something in common with Rush Limbaugh.

Rush is after Moore's wife???

     1.) Get an unlisted number
     2.) Use it to call my lawyer and
     3.) hire an accountant
     4.) Pay off my debts
     5.) Pay off my ex-husbands' condo (AFTER his 2nd divorce is
         finished - she don't deserve nothin' :-) and set up a 
         trust fund so his newborn daughter will get to the 
         college of her choice (the condo is currently in my name
         too with an upside down mortgage, lest someone think I
         am a.) extremely generous or b.) have spent far too much
         time in the sun :-) :-)
     6.) Send the family to Florida for Christmas (we have other
         relatives there)
     7.) Set some money aside for SO's kids' college, college bills, lives,
         etc.
     8.) Invest and hold the line a year. 
     9.) Second year - build new house.
    10.) Third year - buy antique shop
    
    Around the tenth year I'll quit working for someone else.
    
    I expect it will only change the quality of the toys, not the
    number :-)
    
    I expect it will change the size of the donations, not the 
    quantity.
    
    Mary-Michael
    

    
    1.  Pay off bills
    2.  Buy the huge awsome TopKick (big truck) w/matching horse trailer
    3.  Share the $ w/ my family
    4.  Move to Kentucky
    5.  Buy a horse farm
    
    Lkp

    .53
    
    About the only thing I have in common with Rush is that we both despise
    Sliq.

You're both married to aerobics instructors.

    I know. Rush just can't enjoy his. On top is no good, since Rush's wife
    has a fear of heights, and from behind put her through the headboard.
    
    >^)

    Hmmm, wonder if there's a market for anaerobic instructors?

Sure, among bacteria who want buns of steel.

    hangh?

    I'm still going with 'get drunk'!

    Film at 11.
    

    Ohh puleaze... not that <r.o> boring film called 'It could happen to
    you'. I'm sorry I hated that movie more than... well let's just stop
    there.

    
    
    Okay.. then how about...'The Mickey Mantle Story"?
    

    re: .65
    
    There's a surprise...  8^)

    .65
    
    Martin,
    
    We all assumed that was a foregone conclusion :-)
    
    
    

    Fix the house without having to take out a frogging mortgage.
    
    Start hunting  for decent acerage with reasonable irrigation rights,
    making sure there is space on the far end of the farm for my mom, if
    whe wants to move in.  Has to be enough space for barley, as well as a
    long-enough growing season for veggies.
    
    Go to school for something I want to learn, for a change.
    
    Radical change of carreer within 7 years of "winning"
    
    meg  
    
    

    Radical change to....????

    Blade the Teknoman !
    
    Sorry...guess I should quit watching cartoons in the am.

    
    1. Make sure check clears!!
    2. Quit
    3. Change name and move 
    4. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I'd probably keep working for a bit, until I snap one-day.
    I'd rent a prominent billboard somewhere and put on it 
    	"Don't buy lottery tickets!  They're just taxing you! Don't you get
    it?!"
    Just to counteract the 'propoganda' the lottery ministeries put out!  
    I'd change my will.  Buy a cemetery plot, just in case it all gets
    blown away, there's some place to go to at the end of it all.
    Put a bunch into GIC/CD's. buy a cottage, new car, bitchin' computer
    (for games of course)  play a lot more computer games.  That sort of
    thing.. Give some away to charities, some to family, etc.

    I'd create a huge electronic billboard, twice the side of the "gun
    deaths" propaganda machine, and place it across the street of the first
    billboard.  I would label it "firearms used legally in self-defense".
    
    It would not take long for the total on my sign to eclipse that on the
    "gun deaths" sign.  
    
    
    -steve

    I think the Times Square "gun-deaths" billboard got taken down...its
    sponsor is apparantly in the midst of some several-million-dollar
    legal squabble with the gu'ment.

    Oh.  In that case...nevermind!

    Buy a top player for Reading F.C.
    
    Pay my mortgage off,leave my job,and become a dustman or something.
    
    

    Buy an island, a yacht. Sail to the island, set fire to they yacht in
    the lagoon. Run around naked on the island.:)
    
    

    
    
    Alone??
    

    Certainly not!:) But, certainly,,.... no relatives, in-laws/outlaws.:)
    

    You could build a really Cruel Spa on that island.

    
    re: .80
    
    >Run around naked on the island.:)
    
    George.... I've seen you...  
    
    Please re-consider...
    

    .83 A Huge Cruel Spa!!! :) 
    
    And .84, you dont have to look. Less you plan on crashing upon the island!:)
    
                                                     

        One with spikes in it, and razor blades! And a guy handing you towels
    and telling you how ugly you are and insulting your family. etc.

    Gee, I sold some shirts like that. You bought a shirt, with of coures
    the logo, 'I survived the Cruel Spa'. And got a razor blade to
    customize your shirt. :) Wanna buy one?:)
    
    

    I would buy a series of $200 cars driving each of them into the busiest
    intersections and park them and leave. 
    
    I would cause as much trouble as I could. Without harming anybody of
    course.
    
    I would send a group of drug addicted homeless people to a posh beach
    resort so that they can see how the other half lives.
    
    oh boy would I do some sneeky things. tee hee hee.
    
    

| <<< Note 526.88 by POLAR::WILSONC "A dog is a womans best man" >>>


| I would send a group of drug addicted homeless people to a posh beach resort 
| so that they can see how the other half lives. oh boy would I do some sneeky 
| things. tee hee hee.


	So.... this must mean you're gonna run for a Democratic office? 

    
    Good one Glen!

    re:.88

    > I would buy a series of $200 cars driving each of them into the busiest
    > intersections and park them and leave. 
    > 
    > I would cause as much trouble as I could. Without harming anybody of
    > course.

    Hate to rain on your parade, but before you park that car in the
    intersection, you better make sure that no ambulances need to get
    through there.  Otherwise someone could very definitely be "harmed".

    
    
    If I won the lottery in a big way... (ie: Over $1,000,000.00)
    
    
    
    Come in to work, get all my pictures, my berry basket, and my big
    purple bunny out of my office. (Everything else could be replaced.)
    I'd take everyone in my group, less three people, out to lunch, then
    have the limo that drove me here take me shopping. (I would NEVER EVER
    make this drive again!!)
    
    I'd start with a new car for Alan, then one for me.  Then I'd buy my
    parent's condo in Millis, MA.  I'd buy them a large home on Marco
    Island in Floriday, large enough for family visits.  I'd buy myself a
    log cabin in Maine, and keep the condo in Millis as rental property. 
    I'd spend 6 monts in Maine, and 6 months in Marco every year. (I'd buy
    a house for us there too, since I couldn't live with my parents for 6
    days, never mind six months!) :*)
    
    Any money left after that would go into a trust account for the kids.
    
    
    Terrie
    

    Why would you wanna by a condo in Millis Mass?:( Former native of the
    area.

    
    	Terrie never claimed to be normal.
    
    	8^)
    

The real question is why she would want to keep a condo as rental property.

    
    
    I would buy my parent's condo in Millis to save them the hassels of
    trying to sell it before moving to Marco.  Then, I would rent it out,
    because I could make more from renting it than I could if I tried to
    sell it.
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    After all it's only a fantasy.  With a $1m jackpot, you would only
    see about 30K/year after taxes.  That would afford a modest home in ME,
    or a condo in Millis, but not property on Marco x 1 let alone x 2 plus
    trust funds for kiddies etc.  Maybe with a $10m jackpot but not $1m.
    
    

    
    
    I was thinking more on the idea of getting it all at once, and the
    $1M figure was meant to be after taxes.
    

    Last saturday's loto 6/49 jackpot was 25 million. 4 people won.
    
    Imagine 25 million all in one shot, tax free?

  that's alota condos in Millis.

    I've won a SNARF!

    Re .90
    
    I suppose everything you do, everything you buy, etc., etc., is done
    with the foreknowledge of any impending doom that will result from your
    actions. Give me a break. 
    
    

    .88
    
    Since you have the money to blow, use $20,000 cars. People will be less
    likely to bulldoze them out of the way using redneck pickups.

    
    	hey, where can ya git one o' dem rednecked pick'emups?
    
    
    

    I'll sell you mine for $3K.
    
    Comes complete with an assortment of useless tools that I can't quite
    throw away.

    	
    	I've got tools like that....:)
    
    

    
    
    The minute you get rid of them, you need them.

    Exactly, which is why I still have a sprocket-end left handed
    defribulator for a '69 Volvo.

    
    > Exactly, which is why I still have a sprocket-end left handed
    > defribulator for a '69 Volvo.

    WOW you've got one of them!  I've been lookin' for one for years....
    :-)   I'll trade ya me reverse threaded, open-end pneumatic wrench for
    it.

    BTW on redneck pickups... I's got one too.  '84 4" suspension lift, 33
    inch tires... rides like a bear, but way cool.  All I need now is a new
    confederate flag.... Some pinhead stole my last one when I parked in
    Cambridge.

    >BTW on redneck pickups... I's got one too.  '84 4" suspension lift, 33
    >inch tires... rides like a bear, but way cool.  All I need now is a new
    >confederate flag.... Some pinhead stole my last one when I parked in
    >Cambridge.
    
    Why not just stamp "idjit" on your forehead and be done with it?
    
    -b

    .108
    
    I used to have a Honda rear suspension spring adjuster, but I can't
    seem to remember where I put it...howzit work?

    
    re:.109
    
    > Why not just stamp "idjit" on your forehead and be done with it?
    
    'cuz then they may not be able to tell me from you... :-)
    
    oh yeah they can, I forgot you da guy who always talks about his
    penis.  I forgot.
    
    re:.110
    
    Jim, that wrench works "wicked pisser"!  Thanks man!
    

    >oh yeah they can, I forgot you da guy who always talks about his
    >penis.  I forgot.
    
    And I even get to use it from time to time, which is why
    I don't behave like you...
    
    -b

    From time to time?
    
    How do you hold it in that long. My teeth are floating just thinking
    about it.

    
    > >oh yeah they can, I forgot you da guy who always talks about his
    > >penis.  I forgot.
    > 
    > And I even get to use it from time to time, which is why
    > I don't behave like you...

    Ya see Bri, the reason I don't need to talk about myself as you appear
    to is because I believe in using the equipment I was given, not ranting 
    about it.  All things considered, I'm glad I don't behave like you. 
    That would be FAR more embarrassing than allegedly "over-complementing"
    the ladies here in the 'box.

    allegedly?!?!!!!???!!!
    
    {thud}

    
    Yeah yeah yeah, whatever Kirby.
    
    If you ever met the woman I'm married to, you'd no doubt try
    to impress her with a display of native sucking noises. But
    the closest you'll ever get apeboy is drooling, when I put
    her picture in my web page.
    
    -b

    
    Glenn, you mean you think that I over-complement the ladies????  If
    anything, I thought I didn't complement them enough.

    {thud}
    
    huh?
    
    {thud}

    Compliment. NNTTM

    
    Glenn, {slap}, Glenn, {slap},  Wake up!
    
    Even after meeting the lovely 'box babes, you think I over do it?  Gee,
    one of the two of us needs glasses, and I think it's you.... :-))))
    

    huh?
    
    ohno!
    
    {bluuuuuuuuuuurgh}

    
    > ...among Those Who Count....
    
    Donny, that is the stupidest thing you've ever written, and that is no
    mean feat.
    
    HTH
    

    Hey, pass me some o' dem needles, will ya?

    
    Here, and I'm using this really nice Icelandic wool if you'd care to
    share that.
    
    

    Wool, schmool. I just need sumtin' to click.

    
    Ah, I see Dan continues to fight his own personal Thermopylae, 
    beleaguered by the terrible hosts of the fabled Those Who Count.
    
    Cannon to the left of him!  Cannon to the right of him!
    
    Courage, Dan!  I'm a rootin' fer ya!
    
    
    
    Well, it's good entertainment, anyway (certainly better than the
    latest installment of the Silva/Krawiecki feud...yawn...)
    
    
    
    Rob
    

    
    "That's alright, I like killing Persians in the shade..."

    
    I'd kill everyone who pissed me off that day and hire The Squeam Team
    to get me off scott free.

    Hey Colin, wouldn't you use some of the money to follow your idea
    of taking the Royal Family and bringing them to Disney World and
    turning them into a ride?
    
    

    
    I don't recall having that idea, but it's tempting.  Very tempting.
    Must think up a catchy name.

    
    
    	Anyone know what the Mass Millions numbers were last night?
    

    
    	You didn't win.
    

	there were 6 of them, with a bonus one.

Herald reports MMillions
7 10 43 44 48 49   bonus 31

    Any wieners?
    

    
    	Frankly, I'm not sure.
    

    
    
    I'm dog tired of these puns....

    
    
    	T'anks.  I'll have to check my tix when I get home.  I
    	did all quick picks so I have no idea what my numbers are.
    
    	(though these are lousy numbers!)
    

    
    	Lousy numbers?
    
    	If your numbers were the winning numbers, and they were differ-
    	ent than the numbers I played, then I'd think those were just
    	as lousy.
    
    	8^)
    

    
    
    	Well I suppose that's true......  just yucky odds
    	when four of the numbers are in the 40's I guess....
    

The winner was bought in Newton

    	Statistically the odds are the same for matching an even 
    	distribution of numbers as they are for matching any specific 
    	6 consecutive numbers.  Chance does not obey human concepts of
    	random.

    The winner is a female college student, and now richer by about 700K +/-
    per year after taxes.  

    Ticket bought on her 30th birthday, with her last 3 bucks...
    She's single and took home, after taxes, $784+K

<---my birthday is Sunday.... all I get to win is the nightly number.... :-(

    I wonder what Monday nights lotto numbers were ? I might be a
    millionaire and not even know it !

A friend told me this story.

A coworker of his was on the phone with his wife.  She had found a Megabucks
ticket on the kitchen table and wanted to know what the winning numbers were.
He looked it up in the paper and read them to her.  She excitedly asked him
to read them again.  It was a match!  He told his coworkers that he'd won
$5,000,000.  He left work early and gave the parking lot attendant a $40 tip,
saying he was now a rich man.  Being a practical fellow, he visited a lawyer
who spent four hours with him telling him how to handle his new wealth.



He later discovered that his mother-in-law had been in a convenience store
and had asked what the winning numbers were.  They gave her a printout from
the lottery machine.  This printout is what his wife found on the kitchen
table.

The parking lot attendant gave him the $40 back.

	Wow...... 

    	Didn't Massachusetts have 20 winners of one Megabucks lottery
    	drawing about 10 years ago?  The winning number was 1 2 3 4 5 6
    	or something like that.  For that particular drawing the pot
    	was the minimum $400K.  Each winner was given a $20K check 
    	instead of annuitizing over 20 years.
    
    	If I recall the story, one 'winner' called up his boss and
    	quit with bridge-burning language.  He had not yet discovered
    	that he would be splitting the pot.

	I'm not sure if this was the same one Joe was talking about, but I know
someone who won with a lot of other people (about the same number Joe talked
of) who gets a check for about 9k every year.


Glen

>    	If I recall the story, one 'winner' called up his boss and
>    	quit with bridge-burning language.

Fortunately for my friend's coworker (a "couldn't happen to a nicer guy" type),
he didn't do this.  The worst he did was this: the company recently cut over
to a new, much hated, computer system.  He was scheduled to get 4 days'
training in this system.  He was so happy at the prospect of not taking the
training or using the system that he went into a currently running class
and said "I'm not going to have to take this training.  I'm a millionaire!"

 Whoops..

    
    ok...that's all fine and dandy but what if someone gave you 20 billion,
    after tax's......hmmmm...that's a lot of cash.:)

A while ago I mentioned that the Mass Lottery was now mailing me
buy-1-get-1-free coupons rather than free coupons for lottery tickets.
Somebody asked for the coupons.  Please step forward (and kindly point
me to the note in which you requested them).

    
    i think that was me...
    
    
    let me go back and find out where that note was...
    
    

    
    i can't find it where i thought it ought to be.
    but i still think it was me...it stemmed from my request for the winner
    powerball number or something like that and someone informed me that
    the lottery was a tax on idiots, or something to that effect and then
    you piped in saying how you always toss the freebies you get and i
    popped in with my mailstop or something asking you to send them my way.
    
    
    does that count???
    
    

    
    oh yeah, and the person who had the 18million winning ticket from a few
    weeks ago finally claimed the ticket.  lives in quincy and manages a
    north shore chinese restaurant...
    
    

    
    lucky guy!
    

    Now he can open that boob cake store he always dreamed about.

    I wonder if he's looking for a wife?   8*)))))))

    
    
      .161  I'll even pose for the cake for that kind of money!!!!!!!

    
    	So tell us ... would that be a big boob cake or a little boob
    	cake?
    
    	Inquiring minds and all that, you know?
    

    Shawn loves to stay abreast of things.

    
    
    	I solemnly promise that one day, I will pinch each and every
    	one of Glenn's personalities.
    
    

    
    
       Ask Glen.

	I only have one, Rose...sick. :-)  Glenn has about 20 or so....

	I've won a 69 snarf!!!

    
       .168   one what?

personality

	and that's rounding up.  

wow...never saw that one coming.... :-)

    
    	.172 just about made my day