Honeymooners episode...made me think of lotto and some threads here at LP

Reply #8

Coin Toss — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:50:44 GMT

Lucky Loser,

Oh I hear you. I wish, as I'm sure many others do, that there was a way for the $1 - $5 Pick 3 player to know they could make even just a couple of hits a week, box or straight.

No taxes, np paper work, nobody knows anything. Might even be tempted, of that was the case, to make a deal with the Lottery Fairy and stop chasing the big jackpots as long as the Pick 3 payoffs kept coming.

I remember reading that when all is said and done the average American finishes the year $50... [ More ]

Reply #7

Lucky Loser — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:11:30 GMT

That's pretty good! Things like that do happen and I never said they couldn't. As far as I know, most people that have won a jackpot did, in fact, win on a QP. I'd never attempt to try and arrange numbers on such a larger scale. Why? Because, just a month ago, I got (5) QP's and got within 1-2 of all the winning numbers! Go figure.

In the end, though, it does pay to apply some common math to these smaller games...that's what they're based on. I'd love to spend $20 on a str8 and get it even se... [ More ]

Reply #6

joker17 — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:37:16 GMT

Ha ha.....I'm learning all about the pups, and in reading this, I couldn't help but laugh so hard...lol

Considering the dogs weigh an average of 60 to 80 pounds, and the average time is about 30 seconds...lol

Reply #5

Coin Toss — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:28:28 GMT

Oh, all true, LL. I don't know how many times I've seen things where knowledge of a game and knowledge of the odds couldn't touch plain old luck, to the point it makes you wonder where's the justice, you know?

I've told his story before, but for a brief period one summer there was a dog track near Vegas. Our pit boss went out there and couldn't do anything wrong. He'd never bet on dogs before and was having a ball.

After about five straight wins one of the guys sitting near him asked how h... [ More ]

Reply #4

Lucky Loser — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:42:20 GMT

I hear ya, buddy, and there are no hard feelins'. Mind you, that hitting a JACKPOT with a system is much different and extremely harder than hitting Pick 3/4 with some regularity. I really hope you understand this because it's based solely on the total number of possibilities.

I will respect your views on the systems because it falls in the same category as I told someone else. Also, DeltaDown made it very clear. Just because YOU understand numbers and/or the lottery ONE WAY doesn't mean that... [ More ]

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:32:53 GMT

LL,

I think the deal was Ralph heard about the new road at the bus company, in fact, but yeah, didn't get all the info.

Until one of our systems advocates here hits a kackpot I'll consider all the systems still sitting under the overpass.

And when our first member that hits a jackpot with a QP, they'll be permanently under the overpass.

Officer, there's a young child over here spiking his lemonade with liquor.

Reply #2

Lucky Loser — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:05 GMT

Proper information and planning is vital in most everything and this is where they fell short. Actually, Ralph should've been briefed on the highway at his workplace because he was a bus driver...AND IT'S HIS JOB TO KNOW THE CITY, what's going on, and routing directives based on developments.

Man, looks like EVERYBODY dropped the ball on that one!! Oh, that's right. We're only talkin' television here. In Ralph's famous words!!...BANG...ZOOM!!!!

You know, I had a little lemonade/cool-aid st... [ More ]

Reply #1

hearsetrax — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:57:13 GMT

thanks I needed the grin this morning after getting skunked by the powerball once again

Honeymooners episode...made me think of lotto and some threads here at LP

Coin Toss — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:53:52 GMT

There's an old episode of the Honeymooners where Jsackie Gleason and Art Carney.....Ralph and Norton hear about a new highway coming into the neighborhood and think that it would make a great location for a hot dog stand.

They borrow $300 which was big money back then, and buy a hot dog cart. They think about all the money they are going to make, what a great deal it's going to be, and why no one else had thought of it.

At the end of the episode they are sitting next to their hot dog cart,... [ More ]