Close is only good for horseshoes and hand grenades.

[mbriant]

A former business associate of mine, Andy Donato ( Torontonians will know him as the Sun's award-winning political cartoonist and some older Americans might remember his best-selling poster, inspired during and by the Iranian hostage situation...a caricature of the Ayatollah lying on his stomach with American soldiers hoisting Old Glory, Iwo Jima style, onto his backside ) missed out on Wednesday's $54,000,000 lottery by only one number ... in fact, by only one digit ... the last winning number was 43 and Andy had 42.

How depressed would you be?

One would think that having 5 of the 6 winning numbers correct would still result in a hefty win-fall, but the fact is his close-but-no-$54 million dollar cigar ticket won him only $1,800 . I realize $1,800 is much better than nothing, but in a situation like this I'm pretty sure I would rather have been miles off than so painfully close to $54,000,000.00 . How about you? Would you be thrilled and satisfied with the $1,800.00 consolation prize, or would you rather not have to obsess about coming so close to such a huge lottery jackpot?

PS: Don't worry too much about Andy. He's done fine with the stock he's owned in the newspaper he works for.

 

[Oink1]

I'd take the $1800 and be happy about it - better than nothing...

 

[Kirosia]

I'd be a tad peeved to say the least . . .

 

[VicAjax]

i'd take the $1800. (mostly) free money is (mostly) free money.

actually, a U.S. congressman (from new hampshire, i think) recently missed the $350mil jackpot by one number... and he won $850,000. i guess americans just have better consolation prizes.

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Originally Posted by mbriant <snip> Torontonians <snip>

i always thought they were called Torontoids.

 

[mbriant]

Quote:

a U.S. congressman (from new hampshire, i think) recently missed the $350mil jackpot by one number... and he won $850,000. i guess americans just have better consolation prizes.

Actually, they just have less winners.

I believe there were something like 512 second place winners in this $54,000,000 lottery. Had there only been 1 second place winner, he/she would have recieved $1,800 x 512 = $921,600 .

 

[markkr]

Lotto ticket = $1

matching 5 of 6 lotto numbers = $1800

The story of missing the jackpot by only one digit = priceless


for everything else, there's... OH WHO AM I KIDDING, I'D BE PISSED!!!!!

 

[HiWire]

I'd take the money, thank you very much.

A balanced Gilmore, AKG K701 / Alessandro MS-Pro / or electrostat heaven later... yes, $1800 is a "good thing."

 

[VicAjax]

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Originally Posted by HiWire I'd take the money, thank you very much. A balanced Gilmore, AKG K701 / Alessandro MS-Pro / or electrostat heaven later... yes, $1800 is a "good thing."

for me, it'd be a pair of ASW Genius 200:

 

[Homeless]

Quote:

Originally Posted by markkr Lotto ticket = $1 matching 5 of 6 lotto numbers = $1800 The story of missing the jackpot by only one digit = priceless for everything else, there's... OH WHO AM I KIDDING, I'D BE PISSED!!!!!

It's actually $2...and anyway, I played and got nilch...so you're damned right i'd take the 1800...because he could have been like the millions of others and got nothing...

 

[eyeteeth]

I'd rather forgo the hefty pocket change and never think of it again.

Illogical, but I'm not Spock.
I'm more of a Mcoy, "damn it Jim!-we could have been saved!"

 

[warubozu]

I'd take the $1800 but I'd also be a little sick in missing the $54 mil payout by 1 digit. Like Oink1 said, some money is better than no money.

 

[Nisbeth]

I'd take the $1800 and spend it on a world-class bender

When I got off that, I'd hopefully have forgotten the rest

/U.

 

[elrod-tom]

$1800 is a pretty big deal...is this US or Canadian $$?

Hey, it's only money...right???

 

[braillediver]

A loser will take the $1800. You’d go through life thinking “ Man I was that close”. It’s like God needed a messenger, he points into the crowd, you step forward expectantly and he say’s “no the one to the right, maybe next time”.


Mitch

 

[zachary80]

Quote:

Originally Posted by VicAjax i'd take the $1800. (mostly) free money is (mostly) free money. actually, a U.S. congressman (from new hampshire, i think) recently missed the $350mil jackpot by one number... and he won $850,000. i guess americans just have better consolation prizes. i always thought they were called Torontoids.

Congressman Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has actually won the lottery a couple of times