[Newspoetry] winning lottery numbers

[Bill Wendling]

Also sprach Maiko Covington:
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} On Tue, 9 May 2000, Joe Futrelle wrote:
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} > 33 million Americans below the poverty line.
} > 
} > 2 kinds of people; those who buy lottery tickets and those who find
} > that it's not worth their time to buy lottery tickets.
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} 	Well, 3 kinds of people. There are those of us who bought tickets
} for crazy people living in the Bay Area for a fee and used that small fee
} to buy huge, jelly-filled, sweet, frosted DOUGHNUTS to go with our morning
} coffee this AM.
} 
Joel (co-worker) and I had a discussion about this yesterday. My family
liked to buy tickets and day-dream about what we'd do with the money.
Just day-dreaming wasn't enough, we needed that infinitesimally small
chance of winning before it could be fun :).

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|| Bill Wendling			wendling at ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu