So a new weekend tradition in our house is to play the Saturday night lotto, and then check our tickets as we read the paper and drink our morning coffee on Sunday. As we open up the paper we faux-excitedly proclaim that perhaps we won’t have to go to work the next day. We know the odds are ridiculous, but it’s fun and keeps us entertained. Well this week with Easter we forgot to check the winning numbers, so it wasn’t until last night that I had a chance to check the tickets, and wouldn’t you know it, I got three numbers! THREE NUMBERS! It’s a six number drawing, so I was certain that my three numbers would get me something, so I rushed to the computer to check the payout values. Turns out the jackpot was $33 Million and there was no winner. What do I get for my three numbers, you ask? One dollar. That’s right folks, one lousy dollar. For three numbers! The payout for four numbers? Twenty-Nine dollars. Could you imagine my disappointment if I got four numbers? Five numbers? $2,000. Seriously. If I got five numbers I probably would have called up my job and quit before I even checked the payout values. Isn’t that ridiculous? Don’t these jackpots just carry over to the next drawing if nobody wins? Why not spread the $33 Million throughout all the minor winners? Wouldn’t that be an awesome economic stimulus? Why let it build up to $700 Million just to have some 98 year old man win, who ends up dying the next day (ironic, don’t ya think?). Clearly I’m just being a sore loser. Or a sore semi-winner with a lousy dollar.
Screw You New York Lottery!
Filed under Peeves
Woohoo, coffee on Craig today. Oh wait, that’s not enough money for a coffee.
In our lotteries 3 numbers will get you a free ticket (value $2) and 4 numbers is $10. I got 5 out of 7 once, I got $89. Whoopdeedoo. I think the biggest lottery win in Canada was something like $42 million, we never get those big huge ones. I only buy tickets when the jackpot is big. I haven’t bought any for quite a while, hence one of the reasons I am not rich I suppose.
I try to play the mega million and the lotto numbers every week but can’t pick my own numbers because if i did I would always pick the same ones and this would drive me insane with my OCD. If I ever missed a day (which I do) I know that my numbers would come up and it would destroy me. I always do a quick pick (let the computer decide the numbers) to keep my sanity…
Tam: Can’t wait for tonight!
Everyone: I have a hot date with Tam tonight!
Hayden: I always do quick pick too for that very reason!
I think in Florida we get $5 for 3 numbers, but I haven’t played in so long I could be wrong. Sorry you got so hyped and then so disappointed. Have fun on your hot date!!!!
Craig: I’m jealous of your date! But that’s okay — I get her when she comes through Ohio in a bit.
And I never play the lottery. I should, because those dollar wins add up. Y’know, to maybe a Hostess snack cake and a cup of water…
Sorry, Tam…that sounded kinda dirty…
Craig: There better be an post about your hot date.
I rarely play the lottery, only when the jackpot is significant. I’ve never won more than a free ticket.
Craig: I’m looking forward to tonight too. If I look kind of draggy its because if I have to go into one more store my brain will explode.
Tam: I thought you’d look draggy because you accidentally ventured into RuPaul’s boutique…
Speaking of drag, I got an email today about a drag show being put on by two of the schools in Providence and they were looking for performers and volunteers.
So Craiggers gets Tam tonight, Dave S. gets her “in a bit” and I get one day next weekend! Wow, Tam, you dating the whole Puntabugang one date at a time?
We play the lottery here at work when it gets to be a large amount. We never win, but we always talk about how we’re not gonna come in to work the next day. I don’t know what we’d do if we actually won!
john: So, you’re gonna volunteer right? you could go in drag as Vagina Girl!
HUGS…
Polt: I’m hoping Enrico can come into the city Saturday – e-mail me E – so one more notch on my belt. Or whatever.
I’m going to see David’s play Friday night too, so I’m just racking up the Puntabupoints. There should be a contest.
Hey everyone, just so you know the next numbers will be 5 -19 -24 -36 -39 44….If you don’t play these numbers it is your own fault.
I think the best economic stimulus would be for the federal government to pay off my student loans.
Bradford: YES!!!
Polt: Nope. Sure, I have the legs for a skirt, but I hate shaving my face, I’m not going to shave 1/3 of my body.
john: I wasn’t aware shaving was necessary for drag. I mean, good professional drag, yes. But I’ve seen a few amatuer shows where some of the ‘girls’ had more facial hair than i do!
Tam: I think you need to get photos of yourself with each and every Puntabugang member you meet! That could be QUITE the photo album!
HUGS…
Polt: See, I learn something new every day. I thought shaving my legs was a requirement.
I’m not a performer. I couldn’t get on stage dressed as a man never mind dressed in drag. Even if I had the body of Dave S. (which at this point is only going to happen with a plane trip to Ohio, a bottle of chloroform and a length of hose) I could never have done that runway show, I’m way too shy.
I play the same numbers every drawing, but I do the online subscription, so I only have to renew it every thirteen weeks. I know my numbers will most likely never come up. But if they do I’m covered, I don’t have to kill myself for forgetting to play.
I get Tam on Friday night!
California requires all prizes to be based on the jackpot. Your three numbers would win you $7 in last Friday’s Mega Millions drawing. Five numbers would have got you $527,697. $2,000 for five numbers is crap.
David and Craig: Just be nice to Tam. Don’t walk all over her. Because that would be…
Tam as a mat.
john: Don’t worry, Dave S. was pretty shy about the whole thing too. That’s why I was there. For support…and to photograph all the sexy hotness.
And if Dave S. insists on the palindromes, maybe somebody ought to go to Columbus with some chloroform!
HUGS…
Polt: I appreciate the effort, but chloroform can’t really be made into a palindrome. But thanks for thinking of me!
Jersey Swap: CLICK HERE
Sexy, shirtless guys.
Ryan Cupcake: That’s damn funny!
The Ryan: Oh. My. God. Now I know what I’ll be doing the rest of the afternoon…and this evening when I get home. Just as soon as I wipe the drool off my keyboard……
HUGS…
It even has a slow motion option.
Funny, Dave S.? There’s something ‘funny’ about that? oooooo….*shudder, shudder*……Pardon me, I went to look again, just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything….
HUGS…
The Ryan: slo-mo I KNOW!!!!! ooooo…………
You’ll need to wipe more than that off the keyboard.
No there is not slow motion. That is hysterical!
Craig: Perhaps saran wrap over the keyboard is in order?
john: Speaking from experience I presume? lol
What!?! I’m not on the Tam Does Puntabulous Tour???? So much for family loyalty.
Lotteries: I think if they shared the money equally people would realize how awful the odds are and would stop playing.
Xi_Heather: I’m not on the tour either. Perhaps we can get on the next cycle.
Dave S.: No. I have good aim.
I’d comment on your comments but I’m too busy watching slo-mo (which is in actually just a close up, and which is in actuality even better than slo-mo!)
HUGS…
Must…resist…urge…to ask: wouldn’t it be better if they were another kind of ‘mo.
john: Yeah, but that would just be slow motion gardening…
john: In my mind, as I watch them, they ARE other kinds of ‘mo!
Dave S.: If these guys are slow motion gardening, AND changing jerseys, that’s just fine with me too. (gardening leads to…..sweatiness…….ooooo)
HUGS…
I appear to have hijacked the comments section.
Polt: Actually, slow motion gardening would be hoe-mo.
b’dum bum chhh.
Craig: You need to improve the subtlety of your stalking if you ever want to be a ninja (which of course you do because every guy wants to be a ninja).
Craiggers: “Craig is excited for his dinner tonight!” Are you truly excited FOR your dinner? Or are you excited about your dinner? Not that I’m usually a grammar snob like this or anything, but this one made me laugh. “Oh, I was going to have fish for dinner, but now its jumped back into the water and is free and won’t be eaten after all! I’m so excited for my dinner!”
HUGS…
Dave S.: I was hoping you weren’t going to point it out. It took me a minute, but when it hit me I totally groaned and totally laughed.
I’m waiting for Craig to do the same with the name of some of the cds I sent him.
Heather: I’m passing right by your house this summer. We’ll do lunch. Blood is thicker than water and all that jazz. Swear. It would be a two-fer. Two Puntabugang in one stop. Bonus.
Craig: I hope you are excited for the company and not the dinner itself because I am dealing with limited tools and ingredients here. Its not very well stocked but I have the kidlet working on it, she’s quite the chef.
The wireless internet here sucks big time so it won’t load the shirtless hotties. Waaahhhh.*grumble grumble*
Tam: Of course I’m more excited about the company!
Plus I’m gonna try and bring something fun (read: chocolatey) for dessert. And are you and Heather really related?
Craig: Heather and I share a common surname, well someone in her family. Are we really related? Probably at some point. Puntabulous – meet your long lost relatives. It could be your motto.
I be loving the chocolate.
The cloud header cracks me up.
Have a great time with the guys Tam! I’m happy for you.
And totally not jealous. Nope. Not jealous at all. |: \.
Cupcake – thanks for the eye candy.
Here’s another time waster for the Star Trek fans: CLICK HERE
I like the Keanu Reeves one.
Oh my. I finally got the link to work. I’m feeling warm, but I need to replay the slow-mo I think. LOL Thanks Ryan or are we calling you Cupcake now? That works for me.
Michelle: We love ShamWow (we own ShamWow).