Lottery winners?

[Sciurus-Rex]

I just learned that one of my (non-fencing) friends won $200,000 in a Powerball lottery drawing. Heck of a deal. I'm happy for her, and mildly jealous at the same time.

Once again, Fate misses me by THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS much. (arms spread wide)

I don't suppose any of you have won big bucks yet in your corner of the world?

[Pauli]

I usually never play lottery.
Then the pot was at 196Mio EUROS, and I thought, hey, what the heck. I'll try. The pot increased to 285Mio EUROS. I played again......
And guess what?

I missed by THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSS much!
(arms so wide spread that it hurts)

So, basically, my chances were THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISS little too:
1: 75'950'000

Actually it was non-sense to play. But you just never know when it hits you.
I wasn't the lucky one this time.

Funny were the discussions we had in the office as to what we'd do with the money if we won. One guy is extremely conscious, he said, he'd invest part of the money in his product (well, our coy's product). I looked at him and smiled and thought: you poor soul.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

you cant win if you dont try.

[_fence(1)]

There was a show on National Public Radio (NPR) about lottery winners. They said that majority of all lottery winners (in USA?) are broke in less than five years...

Quick google search:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/...ney/P99649.asp

"Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be," says Evelyn Adams, who won the New Jersey lottery not just once, but twice (1985, 1986), to the tune of $5.4 million. Today the money is all gone and Adams lives in a trailer.

William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but now lives on his Social Security.

"I wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare," says Post.

[Sciurus-Rex]

But the majority of people in the USA are financial idiots anyway. More money won't magically change that.