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my office wins its (probably illegal to do from a workplace) MegaWhosits Lottery Pool.

The few others of you I am buds with, best or otherwise, I will buy a nice dinner with a nice-dinner-sized fraction of my 15th (unless someone dropped a dollar in after me) of the gillion dollars in the MegaWhosits this week.

ghostjmf wrote:my office wins its (probably illegal to do from a workplace) MegaWhosits Lottery Pool.

Why would it be illegal?

See- this is what I don't get about you. Even when you're fantasizing about something that would be REALLY REALLY GOOD for you, you bring something negative into it.

It's almost as if you can't post about a single thing without something negative in the post.

Why would you do that?

Wow, just for a second, I thought you guys already won! How cool would that be? Ya'll can win MegaWhosits and I'll win the Powerball, deal?


t.

tlynn78 wrote:Wow, just for a second, I thought you guys already won! How cool would that be? Ya'll can win MegaWhosits and I'll win the Powerball, deal?


t.

Will you invite me to a nice dinner when you win?

I am sure about the lack of the other invite.

tlynn78 wrote:Wow, just for a second, I thought you guys already won! How cool would that be? Ya'll can win MegaWhosits and I'll win the Powerball, deal?


t.

Sorry- Powerball is MINE!!!!

I'll laugh all the way to the bank.

SteelersFan is in a PowerBall pool with about 10 other people, including the owner of his company. The "Closed" sign goes up Sunday morning if they win.

I'm in my own pool. If I win, I'm calling in rich on Monday.

I am going to have to rely on all of yous guys being generous, as I never play.

Will you invite me to a nice dinner when you win?

You will be invited. But you still can't do me.

Sorry- Powerball is MINE!!!!

You keep that dream alive, buddy. I will invite you, too.


t.

peacock2121 wrote:I am going to have to rely on all of yous guys being generous, as I never play.

I'll invite all y'all to dinner when I win -- someplace near the Millionaire studio in NY. You can pick the place, Pea.

tlynn78 wrote:

Will you invite me to a nice dinner when you win?

You will be invited. But you still can't do me.

Sorry- Powerball is MINE!!!!

You keep that dream alive, buddy. I will invite you, too.


t.

I will keep my dream alive.

SportsFan68 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I am going to have to rely on all of yous guys being generous, as I never play.

I'll invite all y'all to dinner when I win -- someplace near the Millionaire studio in NY. You can pick the place, Pea.

Hot Diggity Dog!!!!!

Jeemie says:

See- this is what I don't get about you. Even when you're fantasizing about something that would be REALLY REALLY GOOD for you, you bring something negative into it.

(a) involved in constructing a scientific experiment, where you have to cover all the contingencies, including the not-happy-ones

(b) involved in risk management, lawyerly-fashion (same diff, only that group can't always control the environment as closely as scientists try to)


In point of fact, there have been people who were sternly warned by their workplace that betting pools are not allowed. In fact, I've read "March Madness" articles giving examples of how, technically, whoever is running the pool could get prosecuted for running an illegal gambling operation, but that, of course, is because the person running the pool accumulates the money, & disburses the winnings.

In the lottery-pool case, the money is being collected by the nice MegaWhosits lottery agent. And the person buying the tickets will of course escort us all to the state to collect our winnings, if, that is, we ever hear from them again.....

tlynn78 says:

Wow, just for a second, I thought you guys already won! How cool would that be? Ya'll can win MegaWhosits and I'll win the Powerball, deal?

Deal!

I'll be buying 2 or 3 MegaMillions tix on the way home tonight.

I'd love to call in well on Monday.

As in, "Well, I'm just not coming in today"

Or tomorrow, or the next day . . .

ghostjmf wrote:Jeemie says:

See- this is what I don't get about you. Even when you're fantasizing about something that would be REALLY REALLY GOOD for you, you bring something negative into it.

(a) involved in constructing a scientific experiment, where you have to cover all the contingencies, including the not-happy-ones

(b) involved in risk management, lawyerly-fashion (same diff, only that group can't always control the environment as closely as scientists try to)


In point of fact, there have been people who were sternly warned by their workplace that betting pools are not allowed. In fact, I've read "March Madness" articles giving examples of how, technically, whoever is running the pool could get prosecuted for running an illegal gambling operation, but that, of course, is because the person running the pool accumulates the money, & disburses the winnings.

In the lottery-pool case, the money is being collected by the nice MegaWhosits lottery agent. And the person buying the tickets will of course escort us all to the state to collect our winnings, if, that is, we ever hear from them again.....

LOL!!!

I'm just going to go back to my latest tack of finding the humor in stuff like this.

Jeemie says:

I'm just going to go back to my latest tack of finding the humor in stuff like this.

Oh yeah;

(c) Jeemie has obviously never written a computer program

ghostjmf wrote:my office wins its (probably illegal to do from a workplace) MegaWhosits Lottery Pool.

The few others of you I am buds with, best or otherwise, I will buy a nice dinner with a nice-dinner-sized fraction of my 15th (unless someone dropped a dollar in after me) of the gillion dollars in the MegaWhosits this week.

it is legal to play the lottery
it may be against compnay policy to collect the money to play said pool on company time(like posting on this board)
but Rich U cant make it "illegal"


i would like to see you win, then complain about the taxes

ghostjmf wrote:Jeemie says:

I'm just going to go back to my latest tack of finding the humor in stuff like this.

Oh yeah;

(c) Jeemie has obviously never written a computer program

When I do, I'll be sure to leave a running commentary on a message board as to all the troubles I had putting out a successful program.

Enjoy life, ghost! It's short enough!

No one's going to rain on your lottery parade (well except the blood-sucking Marxist socialist pig in the White House at tax time!) Put the umbrella away!

Ahem. It's all mine!

Okay, my Socialist ass will be splitting with my sisters, but still........

Jeemie wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:my office wins its (probably illegal to do from a workplace) MegaWhosits Lottery Pool.

Why would it be illegal?

See- this is what I don't get about you. Even when you're fantasizing about something that would be REALLY REALLY GOOD for you, you bring something negative into it.

It's almost as if you can't post about a single thing without something negative in the post.

Why would you do that?

Playing the lottery is not one of her "union benefits".....

lb13

Nope, gonna be us. Either individually (I buy in multi-drawing fashion, and so have some tickets despite not getting out much lately), or as part of GW's workgroup (If my calculations are correct, we'll each get about $5MM cash before taxes).

That's not including our Powerball winnings from tomorrow. (If you're gonna wish, wish BIG!)

gsabc wrote:Nope, gonna be us. Either individually (I buy in multi-drawing fashion, and so have some tickets despite not getting out much lately), or as part of GW's workgroup (If my calculations are correct, we'll each get about $5MM cash before taxes).

That's not including our Powerball winnings from tomorrow. (If you're gonna wish, wish BIG!)

Okay, but you guys are up against Fate. I was talking about running off to Vegas as my reward for wrangling sick kids all month and unwrapping a fortune cookie at the same time. The fortune read, "Soon, you will be on top of the world." So either I will get to go visit Santa "soon" or it related to the conversation I was having.

I bought a ticket using the numbers on the fortune. It will win. We will party.

Or I'm supposed to book a flight to the Arctic Circle....

minimetoo26 wrote:

gsabc wrote:Nope, gonna be us. Either individually (I buy in multi-drawing fashion, and so have some tickets despite not getting out much lately), or as part of GW's workgroup (If my calculations are correct, we'll each get about $5MM cash before taxes).

That's not including our Powerball winnings from tomorrow. (If you're gonna wish, wish BIG!)

Okay, but you guys are up against Fate. I was talking about running off to Vegas as my reward for wrangling sick kids all month and unwrapping a fortune cookie at the same time. The fortune read, "Soon, you will be on top of the world." So either I will get to go visit Santa "soon" or it related to the conversation I was having.

I bought a ticket using the numbers on the fortune. It will win. We will party.

Or I'm supposed to book a flight to the Arctic Circle....

I hope you have a pair of long johns.....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

gsabc wrote:Nope, gonna be us. Either individually (I buy in multi-drawing fashion, and so have some tickets despite not getting out much lately), or as part of GW's workgroup (If my calculations are correct, we'll each get about $5MM cash before taxes).

That's not including our Powerball winnings from tomorrow. (If you're gonna wish, wish BIG!)

Okay, but you guys are up against Fate. I was talking about running off to Vegas as my reward for wrangling sick kids all month and unwrapping a fortune cookie at the same time. The fortune read, "Soon, you will be on top of the world." So either I will get to go visit Santa "soon" or it related to the conversation I was having.

I bought a ticket using the numbers on the fortune. It will win. We will party.

Or I'm supposed to book a flight to the Arctic Circle....

I hope you have a pair of long johns.....

lb13

I do! They were in the hand-me-down bag from the s-i-l from NY.

Did I mention it's about 70 here today.......?

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote: Okay, but you guys are up against Fate. I was talking about running off to Vegas as my reward for wrangling sick kids all month and unwrapping a fortune cookie at the same time. The fortune read, "Soon, you will be on top of the world." So either I will get to go visit Santa "soon" or it related to the conversation I was having.

I bought a ticket using the numbers on the fortune. It will win. We will party.

Or I'm supposed to book a flight to the Arctic Circle....

I hope you have a pair of long johns.....

lb13

I do! They were in the hand-me-down bag from the s-i-l from NY.

Did I mention it's about 70 here today.......?

It was 70 here the last 2 days, which is all the break we need from winter anyway....

I saw real live baseball games on TV the other day, so I know Spring is just around the corner....

lb13