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Are you going to catch the fever?

#1 Postby sunny » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:05 am

PowerBall fever that is! Record jackpot of $365 million for Saturday's drawing :eek:
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#2 Postby gtalum » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:06 am

No way. The lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged. :lol:
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#3 Postby alicia-w » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:08 am

we dont have powerball here.
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#4 Postby azsnowman » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:09 am

You BET.......I mean, a 1$ chance at 150mil$ CASH, why NOT? :cheesy:

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#5 Postby sunny » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:11 am

Yep, Dennis. It's nothing but freak luck!

lol gtalum - that's what accountants are for!

I'm sorry alice :( If I win I shoot you over a few bucks, how's that :D
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#6 Postby alicia-w » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:31 am

you're too funny
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#7 Postby Pburgh » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:24 am

Sure, I love when the powerball gets this high. That's the only time I play the lottery.
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#8 Postby alicia-w » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:40 am

you guys remember how badly i want to get to NM or AZ and send me a couple of bags of $20s if you win. :D
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#9 Postby nholley » Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:26 pm

Now that I am allowed to play the Lottery again I will be off to buy some tickets.
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#10 Postby Skywatch_NC » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:23 pm

Not the Powerball...but NC will start up their Lottery game on March 30th with a Handee-Hugo's in Raleigh being one of the first stores in the city to have a ticket machine here in The Triangle area. I don't play it myself...but whatever rocks your boat. :wink:

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#11 Postby southerngale » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:14 pm

I don't play the lottery, but I'm gonna catch another fever soon cuz I've got some BAD MEDICINE! :lol:


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#12 Postby vbhoutex » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:26 pm

alicia-w wrote:we dont have powerball here.
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#13 Postby Brent » Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:05 am

Winning Powerball ticket sold -- in Nebraska

Sunday, February 19, 2006; Posted: 2:52 a.m. EST (07:52 GMT)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- One person overcame the 1-in-146.1 million odds to buy a winning Powerball ticket worth a record $365 million, lottery officials said early Sunday.

Only one winning ticket was sold for Saturday's jackpot, the largest in the country's history, the Powerball Web site said.

Nebraska Lottery officials confirmed a winning ticket was sold in Lincoln, spokesman Brian Rockey said. They know where it was sold and will visit the site early Sunday to verify the ticket, he said.

As of early Sunday, no one had come forward to claim the jackpot, he said. "We don't know if the winner knows yet," Rockey said.

If more than one ticket was sold, the jackpot would be split. Rockey said Nebraska officials have not yet been notified they were the only state with a winning ticket from the Multi-State Lottery Association, based in Des Moines, Iowa, which runs Powerball.

The Powerball jackpot topped the previous lottery record, which was $363 million for the Big Game -- the forerunner of Mega Millions. That was won by two ticket holders in Illinois and Michigan in 2000.

Powerball's previous record of $340 million was won by an Oregon family in October.

People with dreams of winning the record jackpot stood in lengthening lines Saturday to buy tickets that flew out of machines at dizzying speeds.

West Virginia retailers cranked out tickets at a rate of 29 per second on Friday, said Libby White, the lottery's marketing director. North Carolina and Virginia residents called the West Virginia lottery asking for directions to the closest retailer, she said.

Sales in South Carolina reached $11,000 a minute on Friday, "pretty staggering," said John C.B. Smith, chairman of the state's lottery commission.

Jerry Bono, a furniture mover from Omaha, said he averages $10 worth of Powerball tickets per week, but goes for the big jackpots and leaves the lesser games alone. "If I lose, I lose, but if I ever hit, I'd get out of here and move to Las Vegas."

Powerball is played in 28 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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#14 Postby conestogo_flood » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:07 am

People here go crazy over $15 million. I wish our lotteries were hundreds of millions of dollars. Usually below $10million :( .
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#15 Postby alicia-w » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:05 pm

A group of eight workers at a Nebraska meat processing plant came forward Wednesday to claim the record $365 million Powerball jackpot.

They all work at a ConAgra ham processing plant near the U Stop convenience store where they bought the winning ticket.
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#16 Postby cycloneye » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:28 pm

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Above pic shows the winners with their checks of $22 millon after the taxes collectman gets a lot of the $365 millon.
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#17 Postby Pburgh » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:41 pm

I'm really happy for them. I hope there are a large number of employees at that plant. Can you imagine 8 good workers never returning to work!!!!! That has to be really bad for production to the point of closing a small struggling company.
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#18 Postby alicia-w » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:09 pm

it's nice to see the common man get somewhere in life.
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