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   Yukoner said, 3 months ago

   Lotteries and other betting schemes are simply a form of taxation reserved for the mathematically challenged.

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   jml58 said, 3 months ago

   I never said that I did the math.

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   q-bud0621 said, 3 months ago

   A lottery is a form of a retirement system that never seems reachable.

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   Lewreader said, 3 months ago

   Gambling let the poor enjoy supporting the government

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   sarge112751 said, 3 months ago

   My ‘Pappy” once told me; “sonny, if you WANT to double your money - FOLD IT IN HALF and stick it BACK in your pocket!”

   (Pssst! - it WORKS too!)

6. 

   TiggerLeBounce said, 3 months ago

   ::ROFL!:: Good point about horse sense!

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   Richard said, 3 months ago

   It is said that the odds of one getting killed on the way to buy a lottery ticket , are better than the odds of winning the lottery (er….provided one buys a ticket)

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   Silverpearl said, 3 months ago

   So true.

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   crazyolnick said, 3 months ago

   W.C. Fields said the same thing.. Look up his gratest quotes…..

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    FishStix said, 3 months ago

    Lotteries and legal gambling are simply a tax on fools.

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    richardelguru said, 3 months ago

    wicky, many years ago for a humerous essay I calculated that if you drove something like a half mile to buy a lottery ticket in New York you were more likely to be killed or injured than to win, but that it didn’t really matter because there was no need to drive so far to get one

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    ted.hering said, 3 months ago

    There was a song by Kay Kaiser in the 1940s called “Horses Don’t Bet on People.”

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    aerwalt said, 3 months ago

    The Track:
    Where the windows clean the people.

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    SQUIDBREAKER said, 3 months ago

    @crazyolnick:

    His gratest quotes? Was he a closet cheesehead?

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    benbrilling said, 3 months ago

    ted.herring:

    I used to listen to that song on the radio when I was a teenager. Doctor Demento played it all the time.

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    OldHipster said, 3 months ago

    One of these days, Ol Shoe is gonna lose his bleeep, then his face is gonna look weird with out his beak!

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    BlackHatDude said, 3 months ago

    If birds can bet on horses, I guess its a good dis that horses don’t bid on birds.

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    caddy.1957 said, 3 months ago

    Ben Brilling….I hated to see Dr DeMento go off the local radio station here Sunday evenings are so boring now.

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    KinkyTurtle said, 3 months ago

    He never even wears a shirt!

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    ArtyG said, 3 months ago

    I find my chances of winning the lottery are the same
    whether I buy a ticket or not.

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    Richard said, 3 months ago

    Richardelguru, thank you and I reckon it matters where one lives, what you say is true, and out here on the left coast if I want a ticket I gotta drive about five miles, but I could be kicked by a mule.

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    Guilden_NL said, 3 months ago

    A bunch of horse’s patoots bet on a person based on hopey, changey and boy did they (and their neighbors) lose big time!

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    treBsdrawkcaB said, 3 months ago

    Shoe never wears a shirt because he lost them all!

    I sure wish Common Sense was! (It is no longer common and what IS common is not sense!)

    I also miss Dr. Demento.

    Guilden_NL - I agree! It’s a 4-year catastrophe based upon knotheads who “just wanted to see what would happen”. Now we’re seeing - as we rush headlong into Big Brother on steroids!!

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    treBsdrawkcaB said, 3 months ago

    p.s. - I always prefer to get my information from the horses’ mouth - instead of the other end of the horse…

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    benbrilling said, 3 months ago

    Rush fans: the economy is turning around. Stock market is going up and layoffs have slowed down for the first time since the huge monthly tally when Bush started the collapse. There’s more to life than what you see on Fox News.