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[smick]

I've always enjoyed Onstad's blogs over the 'real' characters. Sometimes there's just a limit to the enjoyment I can get out of knowing the lives and backstories of cartoon characters, whereas most here relish the prospect of finding out just that little bit more about Achewood.
 

That's really weird.   When you mentioned that, I realized that I've never thought of Onstad's blog as anything other than a character blog.   He's the cartoon legs that picked up the cartoon cat that one time.

And falls... 8 dollars a week to rent the fantasy that everything is going to be ok, is better than the $6 a day for a pack of smokes.  Cheaper anyway.

[goldenchurchhill]

yea, I really enjoy the lottery as well, nothing like that hope for the first couple days.  God, I wish I could win it though.

[Lister]

I purchased lottery tickets when the Mega Millions was over $300 million, when the return finally favored the odds.  I had plans for this money, oh yes.  I figured out how much I would have after taxes, then I determined what portions would go to investments, etc.  Except for the world of technology, I am not a man driven to excess.  I would have been the most boring lottery winner ever, but I would have had a PHAT computer system.

I would probably have created a foundation of some type and been the sole employee of it.  I don't know exactly, because financial planners will not talk to you about the money you are going to win in the lottery.  Not for free, anyway.

This is important to know.

[Mite]

I've never played a powerball-type lottery. I just don't see the point. Every once in awhile I'll do the scratch-offs, but at least those give you something to do for the 20 seconds you're scratching.

Humans just aren't wired to really understand statistics. Sure the odds are 40 trillion to one, but it's hard for our little ape-minds to grok that. As long as people aren't using up the rent money there's no harm.

[robot_god]

I hate the lottery.  One of the worst ways to gamble.  But I love to play it.  Despite the poor return for the risk, someone does win once in awhile.  And they don't deserve it.  So I play it now and then.  Gambling is probably the Greatest Thing.  American dreaming at its purest.  Stay gold.

Onstad is a bullshit artist, he most likely plays the lottery compulsively, or at least fairly often.  I will refer to Cornelius' blog entry on gambling.

[theinevitable]

no no no
we learned from NPR (when they started the first ever NC Lottery last week) that compulsive (ie: addicted) gamblers rarely play the lottery. They normally favor games that allow them to think a measure of skill is involved.

although, I don't know how legitimate that is.

[pmcd9]

no no no
we learned from NPR (when they started the first ever NC Lottery last week) that compulsive (ie: addicted) gamblers rarely play the lottery. They normally favor games that allow them to think a measure of skill is involved.

although, I don't know how legitimate that is.

They've overlooked the fact that there are people so fuck*ng stupid they think winning the lottery involves skill.

~Paul

[AlohaDawg]

I thought the objection was not the gambling aspect as much as the disproportionate amount of spending per household dollar on the lottery by the poor - the people I've heard talking about it consider it more-or-less a tax on the poor.

My argument would be that it's a dollar not spent on what? Since it's unspent you don't know if it would have went into the kids college fund or to cigarettes and bundled copies of Mayfair and Oui at the local beer-smoke-porn-lotto shop.

[robot_god]

no no no
we learned from NPR (when they started the first ever NC Lottery last week) that compulsive (ie: addicted) gamblers rarely play the lottery. They normally favor games that allow them to think a measure of skill is involved.

although, I don't know how legitimate that is.

I have a friend of mine who is a very compulsive, habitual gambler, that plays scratch off tickets constantly ever since I told him losing lottery tickets are tax deductable.

I have another friend who gambles less habitually, but is very addicted to scratch offs.  One of those 'scratch-em in the store' dudes.

There is a dude down the block who comes into the deli in which I work who is a GA-recovering-lost-almost-everything gambler and he keeps himself away from any kind of lottery because he says he could just as easily get addicted to buying tickets as he could calling a bookie.

So, in my experience, it really varies from person to person, but alot more people are addicted to the lottery than you may think.  Lotto addicts seem to try to keep their playing very secretive.

I'm a mildly compulsive gambler, but I only buy tickets every now and then.

Shit.  Now I have to gamble tonight.

Awesome.

[AugustWest]

...losing lottery tickets are tax deductable.

Mmmmm, sort of.  You can deduct gambling losses from your gambling winnings.  You can't deduct gambling losses from any other income.

[wombat]

It is perfect that Beef doesn't say a word about the fight in his blog entry.

[CortJstr]

It is perfect that Beef doesn't say a word about the fight in his blog entry.

What fight? He was with Showbiz, remember?

[Beatrice]

how the hell does Lyle manage to correctly find and sign into his blog site?  seriously, this dude can hardly read, much less write.

[Hobot]

That junkie has the same real-life name as me.

[littlefox]

how the hell does Lyle manage to correctly find and sign into his blog site?  seriously, this dude can hardly read, much less write.

He might have it bookmarked. Maybe his password is just "lyle." Dude can spell his own name.
B'sides, Phillippe is 5 and he writes a damn fine blog.