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The last 3 drawings have had 47, 39 and 68 people go 5-5 and miss the MegaBall - Will Hunting Mar 30, 17:11 5
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  - There was a 3.39% chance that none of those people who hit the first five numbers would hit the mega ball. - Jelly Mar 30, 17:26
  - we'll easily have a few $1 & $2 winners. the big ones, hopefully as well -- nm - peglegpete Mar 30, 17:17 1
    - I'm not sure California has $1 & $2 winners like other places. - the wrong element, bad guy Mar 30, 17:22
  - We won't know the ticket sales...but we've missed 18 times in a row to get to this point. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 17:15
Illinois Lottery site back up -- nm - rollo Mar 30, 17:04
Concentrate everyone $700m, $700m, $700m, release all negativity from your minds...visualize $700m. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 17:03
If nobody wins the lottery tonight the prize will be a billion dollars -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 17:03
If I win Mega Millions, I want a seat in the Shark Tank. -- nm - Dano Mar 30, 17:00 10
- we should do a shark tank for indie film -- nm - pixitude Mar 30, 17:11
- My first purchases tomorrow will be life insurance policies on everyone in the pool. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 17:07 6
  - if we win, Meg said she has a perfect spot where we are all supposed to meet up. 15 miles due west from the 178 & 190 junction at Furnace Creek -- nm - peglegpete Mar 30, 17:15 5
    - I've been there; it offers up a clear view of everything within 1500meters from the heavily fortified rock outcropping in the middle. - Will Hunting Mar 30, 17:17
    - It's a trap! -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 17:16 3
      - the middle of nowhere, Death Valley is NOT a trap :)) -- nm - peglegpete Mar 30, 17:17 2
        
        After I flatten all your tires I will sell 1 gallon of water for 10 million dollars -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 17:20 1
        
        Rat Race 2 -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 17:21
- read Batman #251 and maybe you won't. -- nm - peglegpete Mar 30, 17:06
- We can bid on each other's bad ideas. -- nm - Max Mar 30, 17:05
~He won the lottery and died the next day~ -- nm - Alanis Mar 30, 16:54 1
- and isn't it ironic .... -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Mar 30, 17:08
Good afternoon!! Just checked into my hotel - have a few minutes but not enough time to BB - anything I need to know? -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 30, 16:21 22
- hotel where exactly? - pixitude Mar 30, 16:24 14
  - Why is that important? -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:39 6
    - in case she makes a run with our money! -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 16:40 5
      - spoken like a man who's been swindled more than once in his life -- nm - pixitude Mar 30, 16:41 4
        
        well I was married once -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 16:42 3
        
        "And then I took an arrow to the foot." -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 16:48 1
        
        better there than the knee -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 16:50
        
        LOL! -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:47
  - San Diego - I'm still about 30 miles from the border ;) -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 30, 16:28 5
    - hmmm, *changes trip plans tomorrow from Santa Barbara to San Diego* -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 17:04
    - Mel's been right about you all along! -- nm - David Mar 30, 17:02
    - Not according to GPS..you're in Mountain View...(pic) -- (link) - budice Mar 30, 16:30 [Image] 2
      - she knows enough to put her old cell phone in the wheelwell of a bus heading in the opposite direction as soon as she bought a disposable -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 16:49 1
        
        Rascals! All y'all! Meg's no trixster :) -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:52
  - Las Vegas Caesars Palace Penthouse suite. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 16:25
- Mel wants to be your butler after win we the lotto -- nm - tRu Pad Mar 30, 16:23
- How's your accomodations? -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:23 4
  - Travelodge...'nuf said :/ -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 30, 16:28 3
    - -nods- yep -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:31 2
      - But I'm kinda glad I didn't stay at the conference hotel - cost about 3 times as much and I'm really not impressed with the property. -- nm - MojaveMeg Mar 30, 16:45 1
        
        Do the same thing myself when I have those things - besides you're only in the room a third of the time - if that! -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:50
- All we talked about today was winning. WINNING! -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 16:22
Bishop pressures college to rescind offer to Victoria Kennedy to speak at commencement. -- (link) - CovingtonCat Mar 30, 16:21 1
- This would be why some Catholic women are feeling increasingly disenfranchised from the Church. -- nm - the liioulu with lakish effect Mar 30, 16:34
STIS: do you know a tool that can insert the EXIF time into a picture as an analog clock? - marcel Mar 30, 16:18
heh, the real Hunger Game districts of 2012 -- (link) - pixitude Mar 30, 16:14
So we watched Super 8 last night. I want to go back now and count up all the swearing in the movie because the PG-13 for this movie makes the Bully - oblique Mar 30, 16:01 4
- Just guess but would it be Spielberg factor? -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:19
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  - Ah, yes, the colorful phraseology of Detective Manners. - TWuG Mar 30, 16:23 1
    - "He didn't actually *say* bleep..." -- nm - Tim Mar 30, 17:16
I am back from Hunger Games. The movie was good, but the director sucks. Every shot was with a shaky camera. there are things called tripods, asshole! -- nm - peglegpete Mar 30, 15:58 15
- a lot of that was done to represent a mental state. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 16:50 1
  - Exactly. It was used well. -- nm - Iron Spawn Mar 30, 17:09
- well, that nixes this movie for MrsCY...she gets seasick. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 16:06
- C'mon... -- nm - kelly Mar 30, 16:05 7
  - shaky camera is a huge deterrent to me with movies and HG is filled withn it -- nm - peglegpete Mar 30, 16:26 5
    - It made me enjoy Bourne 2 a lot less, that's for sure. So I know what you mean. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 16:30 4
      - I agree on Bourne, Hunger Games wasn't nearly as bad -- nm - amoxy Mar 30, 16:32
      - Evne though it was 100% perfect for Bourne -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 16:31 2
        
        I liked Bourne 1 and Bourne 3. Bourne 2 was overkill with the shakey. - Beryllium Mar 30, 16:48
        
        agreed, it bbrought you along with the action, wasn't over done -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 16:47
  - it's like the least of its problems anyway -- nm - pixitude Mar 30, 16:15
- Don't I know it! -- nm - Wilmer Valderama Mar 30, 16:00 2
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    - Make it so -- nm - Patrick Stewart Mar 30, 16:33
- it worked for Cloverfield -- nm - marcel Mar 30, 15:59
In other Illinois news, trains from O'Hare to downtown were shut down, as was the Freeway, after...... - ty97 Mar 30, 15:55 3
- And I realy wnat to know how that happened. Traffic is usually pretty slow on there on Firady afternoons. - the liioulu with lakish effect Mar 30, 16:16
- Trying to find the news on this I found out about that emergency on Monday. - the liioulu with lakish effect Mar 30, 16:07
- That was Mop. He was trying to suicide attack the VP - oblique Mar 30, 15:56
It's going to be a little tricky getting adjusted to the lifestyle to which I'll soon accustomed. - prayformojo Mar 30, 15:48 6
- LOL -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:21
- What we ought to do is set up a counseling service for all the disappointed losers. -- nm - David Mar 30, 15:53 3
  - Way ahead of you. *talks Nathan down off the ledge* "You don't even understand money!" -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 16:31
  - a counselling *spa*. With hookers. And blackjack. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 16:23 1
    - That sounds awfully close to groiny's winner's services -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 16:25
- i'd be in rehab before any of you, unless you already are in -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 15:52
lyc, it appears i am Ethical. i passed the ethics exam. i know have to wait until - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:43 22
- ^5 so proud of you! :) - -- nm - b. Mar 30, 16:40
- Yay! Good for you Tru! -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:22
- congrats! -- nm - marcel Mar 30, 15:55
- an ethical monkey? alert National Geographic -- nm - pixitude Mar 30, 15:54
- Woo-hoo! -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 15:53
- Hooray! We knew you could do it! -- nm - CovingtonCat Mar 30, 15:52
- Congrats, Mr. CPA! Woo hoo! -- nm - Krusty - In it to win it Mar 30, 15:49
- lottery = already won -- nm - TFox Mar 30, 15:46
- Congratulations, your CPA-ness! -- nm - David Mar 30, 15:45 9
  - as my first order of cpanessness, i command crash to not drive warthogs so close to cliffs. or things that can explode. or hills. or roads. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:46 8
    - I have to do some system upgrades in a few minutes but I should be on later, like after the drawing later - oblique Mar 30, 15:47 7
      - heh. after the day i have had, the bad and now the good, - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:48 6
        
        drinking alcohol on Friday night after you foundout you passed an important professional exam is for losers -- nm - con_carne Mar 30, 15:52 1
        
        yeah, winners never quit. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:53
        
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        The hard part is that it's multiple choice: A) A little. B) More than the guy in Seat 3 that answered D to Question 4. C) Not this time -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:54 1
        
        heh -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:54
        
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- Yay! -- nm - mara Mar 30, 15:44
- How can you resist cheating on the ethics exam, just for the pure irony of it? -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 30, 15:44 2
  - It was actually a question on the exam. "Did you cheat on this exam?" - oblique Mar 30, 15:50 1
    - Heh! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 30, 15:52
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- ...fool me twice,... -- nm - future employers Mar 30, 16:17
- When you're herding cats... and the claws come out! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 30, 15:44
LIR: ty97: That sounds about right for IL -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:42 6
- and with the VISA breach, I'm actually a little surprised that we haven't heard of (or I haven't) a lottery being hacked -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:43 5
  - I use my credit card for on-line lottery instead of debit card because I don't trust them to avoid a hack. -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 15:54 4
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      - well, it saves money vs. cash-forwarding and using the money to buy them. - b. Mar 30, 16:37
      - You can't legislate or regulate stupidity away. It's like whack-a-mole. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 30, 16:06
      - agreed. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:58
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- I can't guess if you give the answer. :-) - Krusty - In it to win it Mar 30, 15:52
Safety Not Guaranteed trailer -- (link) - Reagen Mar 30, 15:35 [youtube] 1
- Really want to see this. Couldn't catch it at SXSW but everyone seemed to love it -- nm - ty97 Mar 30, 15:39
only in Austria - marcel Mar 30, 15:34 1
- I like this solution! -- nm - JenBro Mar 30, 16:27
tru, do you know these kids? -- nm - amoxy Mar 30, 15:28 14
- No. after looking again, recognized the mom. i asked them to stop climbing the trees. - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:42 12
  - summer dress and cowboy boots is a very popular look these days. - diva Mar 30, 15:46 8
    - also hot -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:46 7
      - *nods* note - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:47 6
        
        she got a sister? Or a hot friend? -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 15:48 5
        
        a daughter? -- nm - Cappy S.I. Mar 30, 15:49 4
        
        Is Cappy in the pool? Because I'm really looking forward to the "Audi's for everyone!" posts :) -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:50 3
        
        Well I will for sure go get Pip an Audi :) -- nm - Capstern Mar 30, 17:19
        
        I've jumped on his Audi bandwagon after just one month driving this A4. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:52 1
        
        Audis are the best Germans make FINE cars -- nm - Capstern Mar 30, 17:19
  - Sounds super hot -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:45
  - there's your opening! -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 15:44
  - She's got your back. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:42
- Tru...if you don't know them. say something. I've had to do that. -- nm - Remlik Mar 30, 15:31
Neighbor will be pissed when she gets home. HSA is topping off half her tree because it's too tall....and I'm sure she'll get the bill. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:28 7
- A tree "too tall"? Was it interfering with wires? Because that is a stupid rule otherwise. -- nm - TWuG Mar 30, 16:00 4
  - View obstruction. Water view? -- nm - Iron Spawn Mar 30, 17:12
  - Totally stupid rule; not interfering with anything. Trees must not be taller than the first story of the house; the houses are 2 1/2 stories. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 16:05 2
    - They do that around here you're lopping off some of the value of the property. -- nm - the liioulu with lakish effect Mar 30, 16:10 1
      - And it'sa great way to kill a tree. -- nm - the liioulu with lakish effect Mar 30, 16:53
- heh, this should have read "HOA". -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:39
- Wow and wow. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 30, 15:30
My last three songs on Turntable have been - amoxy Mar 30, 15:27 7
- its that time of month? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 30, 15:47
- No you are all wrong - amoxy Mar 30, 15:45
- Next up: Pink Floyd's Money -- nm - oblique Mar 30, 15:42
- Walk Like An Egyptian -- nm - con_carne Mar 30, 15:31
- Next up "Because I Got High". -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:29 2
  - No, actually it will be Styx "Mr. Roboto" -- nm - amoxy Mar 30, 15:30 1
    - then it should be "Too Much Time On My Hands". -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 30, 15:34
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- Release the robotic Richard Simmons! -- nm - Reagen Mar 30, 15:28

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