Maine lottery scratch tickets may get new controversial name

Comment #64

HaveABall — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:16:40 GMT

Hum, Gerry Reid, director of the Maine Bureau Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, and his naming thinktank must be a bunch of idiots. Plus, even paid a lot for commercials to be made, using the negative slang word! Guess that's what's required to be, or remain, a high-paid employed these last two decades, too many employees must be watching the cruder, non-caring reality shows

Comment #63

Artist77 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:58:43 GMT

OMG lol lol

Comment #62

alsports2000 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:43:03 GMT

Just hire girls that don't mind getting paid for a Kwikie...

Comment #61

dpoly1 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:09:13 GMT

People will complain about anything and everything

Comment #60

dallascowboyfan — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:27:22 GMT

LOL... you soooo crazy

Comment #59

psykomo — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:26:10 GMT

Gimmie ...... one of them thar hunting license ana

KWICKIE

Comment #58

rdgrnr — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:11:25 GMT

I don't think Sugarbritches would understand if I told her I was goin' out for a quickie.

Comment #57

sandia — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:05:04 GMT

.Holy snap! , you did not disappoint. When I first read the story I yelled.... Seriously? You are kidding right?

I noticed, the best the luxuries in life, come from our happy desire to obtain them............

Comment #56

Coin Toss — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:01:26 GMT

An Expedite ?

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whiteballz,

Somewhere between Bangah and Bah Hahbah

Comment #55

jamella724 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:50:59 GMT

I agree most female will definitely feel uncomfortable with the name. It will be nice to change the name, something that is catchy but at the same time comfortable for both gender.

Comment #54

sully16 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:14:41 GMT

Yep, someone at Maine lottery clearly needs to rethink things through.

Comment #53

dallascowboyfan — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:31:29 GMT

Good one

Comment #52

mcginnin56 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:29:20 GMT

For you sir.........your kwikie will be a freebee.

Comment #51

JAP69 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:07:10 GMT

How much you charge for a kwikie mam

Comment #50

whiteballz — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:18:00 GMT

did this story happen in Bangor, Maine

Comment #49

Coin Toss — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:48:31 GMT

Dear Penthouse,

Recently while traveling in Maine I stopped for gas and while I was in line to pay I was looking at the lotto slips for the Maine lottery and an attractive female in the line said, Do you like Kwikies?

I had seen the bumber sticklers and souveneir license plates in Kentucky that said Kentucky- Fast Horses and Faster Women- and for a moment thought, This is incredible, they've outdone Kentucky...... Well, she and I started talking and ............

The next day I went to... [ More ]

Comment #48

sully16 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:28:02 GMT

hehehehehehehe lmao

Comment #47

sully16 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:26:25 GMT

Yep, makes me wonder how the person who came up with the idea got the job in the first place ? Or was it something that transpired that day? Another dumb idea born from the janitors room, hehehehehe

Comment #46

haymaker — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:53:55 GMT

yea, you a right, I guess that's why I did'nt make it as a car salesman.

Comment #45

rdgrnr — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:08:23 GMT

Comment #44

mcginnin56 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:10:32 GMT

The sheer ineptitude of it all!

Why is Maine protracting this ineptocracy.

Comment #43

Artist77 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:52:29 GMT

They knew it was way too provocative and they thought they were being cute. (Quote: I fully understand that when someone saw this word in isolation, they thought, 'Oh, these guys are getting a bit racy,' said Reid. We're actually doing everything we can possibly do to not lead you to that place in your mind. ) Oh come on. However, they did not get the disrespectful part at all and that is of greater concern.

I nominate them for the 2013 LP hall of shame.

Comment #42

Ronnie316 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:32:21 GMT

The whole idea really stinks, and shows what ineptocracy produces.

Comment #41

maringoman — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:23:42 GMT

The thing about it is scratch tickets are family items and thus the uproar. The kids would be exposed to all the jokes that go with those tickets and don't think the kids will not notice.

Comment #40

MADDOG10 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:19:11 GMT

What about renaming them:

High / Low Mane

Hi Mane - Lo Mane

Not Maine.....

Comment #39

maringoman — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:18:22 GMT

Am I right or am I right lol

Comment #38

Ronnie316 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:17:07 GMT

Comment #37

Ronnie316 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:16:50 GMT

Or is it only men that like kwickies

Comment #36

Ronnie316 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:14:50 GMT

Perhaps they just reasoned. Who doesn't like a Kwackie

Comment #35

sully16 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:05:33 GMT

lol,

Comment #34

maringoman — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:04:12 GMT

Had they waited only 14 days they could've had a chance to gauge public opinion by pretending this is an April fools day joke. Thinking things through costs nothing yet lots of organizations and individuals love to skip this crucial step.

Comment #33

Ronnie316 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:47 GMT

BTW hay, I remember that drink......

Comment #32

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:59:37 GMT

Yeah, Im sure Win a dollar for every 100 you spend would sure move sales along.....

Comment #31

haymaker — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:38:13 GMT

Back in the 70s there was a popular nightclub drink called a sloe comfortable screw

The bartenders got a kick outta women asking for that drink,

the name came from the ingredients, OJ vodka, southern comfort sloe gin.

Now I guess that's okay in a nightclub but this doesn't work in lottery,

how about naming the tickets longshots

that's what scratchers seem to be.

Comment #30

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:30:53 GMT

With the right lawyer, I think it would work.

Comment #29

Artist77 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:16:02 GMT

Can you imagane the future defense for the ladies of the evening. I was just offering to buy him a lottery scratch off ticket.

Comment #28

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:14:18 GMT

It should say, You can have a kquickie when we are ready to give you one

Comment #27

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:10:28 GMT

How do you know its not the clerks who will be saying, Would you like to get a quickie

Comment #26

Coin Toss — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:09:35 GMT

time*treat,

Good one!

Truth be known though that would probably get more lawsuits than any flap over Kwikies.

Clerk: He asked me for a Kwikie

Player: Hello, that's the name of the game from the Maine Lottery.

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On most state lottery websites if you try and fine results fro a game that hasn't ben drawn yet or try and scan tickets the message is Results Not In.

On Maine's site it ays, Not yet!

I think that's funny and ju... [ More ]

Comment #25

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:57:19 GMT

Comment #24

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:56:24 GMT

Comment #23

Jon D — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:51:34 GMT

Kwikies is a pretty stupid name for scratch tickets.

In CA, our scratch tickets are called Scratchers. Same with AZ, NM, MO, other states. Some other states call them Instants.

What's the problem

Comment #22

Artist77 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:49:32 GMT

This is the most ignorant (proposed) lottery decision ever. When I first saw this, I thought is this a joke? They had to have the public decide this for them? I can only imagine what the work culture must be like in the Maine lottery. I hope this makes the rounds of the late night talk show jokes.

Dear Maine Lottery:

You may want to implement some internal anti-sexual harassment seminars. No one with half a brain would have even contemplated a move like this. It is not even a close call.

Comment #21

HoLeeKau — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:34:34 GMT

Maybe that's because the guys who are bent on being obnoxious don't use the suggestive tone with the old ladies. Maybe they save it for women who don't wear granny panties.

Comment #20

time*treat — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:28:08 GMT

Since you're not even likely to win your dollar back, why not call 'em Patels

Comment #19

noise-gate — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:15:00 GMT

In some ways it looks like same sex 69. But then again l have been known to be wrong. Just call the darn thing 69.

Comment #18

rdgrnr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:09:01 GMT

Just don't let the guys who came up with Quickie come up with the replacement name.

They'd probably name the new one Hummer .

Comment #17

david1691 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:03:10 GMT

In the bingo halls around here they sell quickies. (For those who don't know this is a game where they call the numbers fast.) I have yet to see any of these mostly nice old ladies faint or get their granny panties in a bunch.

I can understand the reasoning for this controversy, however. It would be awkward for both the clerk and/or the customer to ask for or offer a kwikie. Perhaps the Maine Lottery should hold a contest to see who can come up with a creative name for their instant lottery t... [ More ]

Comment #16

whiteballz — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:56:16 GMT

if I had to ask some old obese clerk for a Kwikie when all I wanted was a scratch ticket, I think I would barf.

Comment #15

HoLeeKau — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:51:43 GMT

Let's go to the Kwik e Mart is very different from let's get a Kwikie. Even if you shorten it, Let's go to the Kwik-e is hard to take in a lascivious way.

Many men could ask for a Kwikie with no problem. But there are a few uncouth men out there who can make anything sound dirty with no help from the lottery. It's these guys who would put the inflection and facial expressions on it to make the cashiers uncomfortable with it.

I'm generally against all things Politically Correct, but this is... [ More ]

Comment #14

rdgrnr — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:02:55 GMT

It's insulting to the female employees and should be dropped unless the Lottery Muckety-Mucks also make their female relatives and wives available to be asked for quickies (and you know that would never happen).

Comment #13

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:27:18 GMT

They can name tickets after lifestyle choices..... The gay, The Bi, The trans.... The Pot, The Meth, The Doc.

Comment #12

sully16 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:15:41 GMT

What next

Comment #11

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:10:26 GMT

Considering they have at least 6 different scratch tickets, wouldn't they need sub-titles as well? A nice sales slogen like The all new 'Quickie-Lick me' where you can lick your way to a $1 million

Comment #10

mcginnin56 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:09:33 GMT

It would depend on the ultimate payoff.

Comment #9

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:52:21 GMT

I think scratch me would have been a better idea.

Comment #8

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:33:30 GMT

Come on Maine REALLY

Comment #7

LottoBoner — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:06:55 GMT

Comment #6

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:44:27 GMT

Only if I had asked for one....

Comment #5

whiteballz — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:40:34 GMT

would you tip the clerk if she gave you a good Kwikie

Comment #4

Ronnie316 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:38:32 GMT

How bout Stop that clerk, he has my ticket

Comment #3

RedStang — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:36:05 GMT

Must be worst for the male clerks. You might see some of them running out the door.

Comment #2

mcginnin56 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:53:23 GMT

How about renaming them Instant Gratification or Lobster Tails .

Comment #1

helpmewin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:22:33 GMT

Maine lottery scratch tickets may get new controversial name

Lottery Post — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:59:14 GMT

The Maine State Lottery may soon give a name to its scratch tickets for the first time, but the name isn't sitting well with everyone.

A few weeks ago, the Maine State Lottery sent a pamphlet out to its 1,300 retailers, saying it plans to name the tickets Kwikies.

I thought that's going to be real uncomfortable for my girls behind the register to have guys come in and say 'Hey, give me a Kwikie,' said David Welch, owner of Village Market in Fairfield.

In slang terms, a quickie is a sh... [ More ]