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I won $2. Maybe I'll hold onto that until the next time I play the lottery in about 3 years from now.

Boston listed as one of the safest? That absolutely shocks me. People out here view red lights as optional. I guess cars who just have to beat out that red light and wind up blocking the intersection because of it don't actually lead to accidents since no cars are moving in that situation.

Ahhh, for whatever reason I was thinking this one had 6 numbers and THEN the money ball. That just shows how much I pay attention to this. Just divide 175,711,536 by the number on the right side of the listed odds and that's how many of each of those prizes there are. I did it really quick so I'm sure I screwed up (lots of rounding), but I got something in the neighborhood of and additional $32 million won through all of the other prizes. Take away taxes and any of that other fun stuff and that disappears a bit.

Great stuff.

I just scanned the story quickly and I don't think they mentioned one other thing. All of your other tickets will win the 2nd/3rd/etc... prizes. So it's what, 6 balls and then the mega ball? Right there you'll have 6 different tickets where you get the second prize by having all but one of the six numbers. So that would cut your losses a bit depending on what all of those other prizes pay out.

And then if you wind up splitting the jackpot with a couple people you're quickly down a couple million dollars.

I know the chunky that left these Chunkys... Newman!

A tax on math idiots, I love it. I really wish I had thought that one up because it's exactly how I feel about the subject. My dad's hooked on his numbers and on slot machines. My guess is he could probably have a pretty good car or two with the amount of money he's thrown into all of this. I guess that at least with the slot machines you get the entertainment of all the flashy lights, if you're into that kind of thing.

And with that change you've increased your chances from 1:124123451235235 to 1:124123451235230 (not real numbers obviously). If you want to play birthdays I say go for it. Either way you're still throwing away your dollar.

My dark horse would probably be the Nestle's Crunch. It's pretty basic, but damn is it good.

It's definitely being used for that exact reason, but white hispanic isn't a new term in any way. I've seen the designation show up on a lot of surveys. I've got one set of data in front of me right now that has ~6% of the subjects falling under that label.

It's amazing what a little confidence can do. You can see it in so many of these players right now.

Exactly, there has to be. Shot during the struggle = Martin's blood on Zimmerman. But we won't hear about this part because then there is nothing to talk about.

We're still missing the most important detail here, which I think we never will hear, the actual moment of the shooting. Did Zimmerman shoot Martin during this struggle or did Zimmerman shoot him after Martin stopped and was leaving due to the anger of being beaten up (and of course there are other possibilities)? I'm leaning towards the first possibility at this point, but I'll almost guarantee that we never hear it because it would put the story to rest (goodbye ratings). The moral of the story for me for both Zimmerman and Martin is that if you do stupid things, they are far more likely to end badly (kind of like me deciding to post over here).

The rangers announce team may be the best in the league. I can't think of many that I enjoy more.

An earthquake caused by aliens.

With all the Hunger Games stuff I'm seeing, it makes me wonder if Arnold shows up in the end and kills everyone. Either that or maybe they can have him be an announcer who is forced to come out of retirement, only to be killed by the main character.

Avatar changes and username changes throw me for a loop for at least a week. I hate it.

They said they were trying to round them up a bit and then hopefully they could lead them away from the farm. There just wound up being way more zombies than they thought and they had to bail.

George's speech about saving the whale will always be the highlight of the series to me.

Ha, I never would have noticed that.

What am I supposed to be looking at here, the staff member behind Wood who seems to be floating in mid-air? I've never really paid much attention to photoshop screw ups.

What, did something happen today?

A quick question to the mods. I know you try to keep it pretty standard, but you really need to re-word that thread closing post. It needs to read: -Please consider using your eyes before starting new topics.

Forgive me for bumping this, but I officially believe it now.