[Newspoetry] winning lottery numbers

Maiko Covington mcovingt at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Wed May 10 18:26:52 CDT 2000


On Wed, 10 May 2000, Joe Futrelle wrote:

> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:56:25AM -0500, Maiko Covington wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Joe Futrelle wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 	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.
> 
> Did you really do that?

	I did indeed! The tickets didn't win, but MY profit was assured.

> 2 kinds of people: those who spell it "doughnuts" and those who spell
> it "donuts" ;)

	Well, they're made out of dough... and these were bought with
filthy lucre...

	Maiko "mmmm" Covington






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