3/9/2006 11:52:05 PM

Is that Sapphire Lake in the first picture?

3/9/2006 11:55:10 PM

pretty

3/10/2006 12:09:33 AM

call me crazy, but im partial to the gawdy/tacky ones like the tic-tac-toe and blackjack

3/10/2006 12:10:47 AM

5000 bucks?

3/10/2006 12:11:04 AM

Lets play Find the Clipart!

and

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"CONTRIBUTING TO NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

3/10/2006 12:20:49 AM

give me the lotto or give me death. screw scratch tickets.

3/10/2006 12:21:21 AM

they make me want to cry they are so ugly

3/10/2006 12:25:02 AM

I like the first four. The last ones are ugly.

3/10/2006 12:28:11 AM

Designed by the best secretaries money can buy.

3/10/2006 12:32:05 AM

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"CONTRIBUTING TO NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION"

yeah, this has become a joke

3/10/2006 1:11:21 AM

we are well on our way to having the best collegiate athletics ever

3/10/2006 1:18:21 AM

let me get a hand on that black jack

3/10/2006 1:32:09 AM

CONTRIBUTING TO ANOTHER TEAPOT MUSEUM

(I think easley's mansion needs another rennovation as well. This time for the mold in the container in the back of the fridge.)

3/10/2006 1:35:05 AM

great, so now there will be tons of broke nigz at the gas station dropping 40 bucks worth of crumpled up dollars on this crap like they do here in virginia

ima git me rich biatch!

3/10/2006 2:48:40 AM

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"CONTRIBUTING TO ANOTHER TEAPOT COUNTRY DOCTOR MUSEUM"

3/10/2006 3:17:38 AM

Jesus, if you don't like the lottery, don't fucking play it

3/10/2006 3:58:23 AM

^^^^
OMFG ... somebody else knows about that. A wonderful $400,000 teapot museum in NC. I want to see the revenue of that thing after so many years [/rant]

Is anybody else slightly creeped out by the fact you have to rub out the bird's head to play the one ticket?

[Edited on March 10, 2006 at 6:28 AM. Reason : .]

3/10/2006 6:25:31 AM

Bird skulls always have prizes inside.

That's what they taught us in school...good thing it's an education lottery!

3/10/2006 6:35:38 AM

3/10/2006 8:21:57 AM

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"great, so now there will be tons of broke nigz at the gas station dropping 40 bucks worth of crumpled up dollars on this crap like they do here in virginia"

maybe in the rural areas. I've lived in states with lottery's all my life before college and I never saw this yet people talk about it like it's commonplace when you have a lottery...

3/10/2006 8:23:11 AM

^no shit, people need to venture out to other places, i have never seen this before

3/10/2006 8:33:23 AM

^^ those people are called racists.

3/10/2006 8:37:57 AM

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"no shit, people need to venture out to other places, i have never seen this before"

Ny fiancee worked as an assistant manager of a grocery store in upstate New York back when she was in highschool. She handled pretty much every lotto purchase and by in large it was the elderly, minorities, and the poor (or some combination of all three) that played the games. Usually it was spending like $25-$50 at a time.

Here is a snippet from a post I made in SB:

Just did a quick search and found this demographics report on the Texas lottery. They removed a couple outliers in the lowest economic bracket because they spent an exorbitant amount of money on lottery tickets (find this a bit convenient but even without them the numbers are evident).
http://www.txlottery.org/info/demographicreport2004.pdf

Income		Spent/Month	% Monthly Income
<$20,000	$76.50		9.18%
20-29,000	$106.04		5.09%
30-39,000	$79.32		2.72%
40-49,000	$112.11		2.99%
50-59,000	$39.24		0.86%
60-75,000	$34.37		0.61%
76-100,000	$28.96		0.39%
>100,000	$71.42		0.57%

< HS diploma	$173.17
HS diploma	$82.04
Some College	$64.74
College Grad	$48.61

White		$55.02
Black		$108.96
Hispanic	$102.20
Other		$103.90

3/10/2006 9:24:14 AM

completely believe that ^. i see it all the time in louisiana. my favorite is people using fema and red cross money to buy lottery tix.

[Edited on March 10, 2006 at 9:40 AM. Reason : i buy one tix per week. ]

3/10/2006 9:40:06 AM

Apparently the South has this problem. I never saw anything like it in CT..

3/10/2006 9:45:58 AM

they need to find a way to let me purchase one from the pump
i always pay for my gas with a credit card so i never go inside
but i dont' see them rushing to put that in place for the $1/2wks they'd get from me

3/10/2006 9:51:08 AM

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"So the lower your income and less you are educated the more you spend on lottery tickets. Of course if you are minority you spend twice as much so basically the most active participants are poor and uneducated minorities."

what happened to freedom to do what you like with your money? Because poor people do something stupid, that doesn't mean it should be illegal. It means they should be better educated by those who DO know better.

I heard on the radio today about a woman making 2 grand a month who was given a loan on a house that she had to pay off at 1 grand per month. Firstly, they shouldn't have given her that loan, but she DEFINITELY should have been better educated as well.

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"they need to find a way to let me purchase one from the pump"

probably will soon. lots of companis are currently working on a gas pump with in-pump internet, purchasing, tv, all sorts of shit

[Edited on March 10, 2006 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on March 10, 2006 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

3/10/2006 9:52:52 AM

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"It means they should be better educated by those who DO know better."

Making a lottery illegal doesn't educate them? Or should I say... what does making the lottery legal after all these years teach them?

3/10/2006 9:55:51 AM

yeah this is a stupid arguement


i am sorry they use their money to play games, they have a mind of their own to do what they want, if they dont maybe they should be commited or something for bieng insane, i dunno this is dumb

if the NC lotto is gonna be true to form, the money they make off it should go back to educating these fools who supposedly shouldnt be buying lottos tickets in the first place

rich people/eople with money to live dont play cause they dont need the money as badly, not because they are SMARTER, so fucking stupid

my mom makes plenty of money and she speends like 200 bucks a month on that crap in NY

[Edited on March 10, 2006 at 10:00 AM. Reason : ]

3/10/2006 9:57:43 AM

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"if the NC lotto is gonna be true to form, the money they make off it should go back to educating these fools who supposedly shouldnt be buying lottos tickets in the first place"

The lottery... the cause of and solution to all of our problems.

3/10/2006 10:00:35 AM

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"Of course if you are minority you spend twice as much so basically the most active participants are poor and uneducated minorities. "

But if you play more you win more, and by winning they can stop being so poor.

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"< HS diploma $173.17 HS diploma $82.04 Some College $64.74 College Grad $48.61"

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"rich people/eople with money to live dont play cause they dont need the money as badly, not because they are SMARTER, so fucking stupid "

It looks like the people who are smarter spend less. Smarter people also make more money on average. To me the idea that one would play the lotto because they need the money seems to be one of the more stupid things I've heard. "Lets see I need 5k to buy that used car so I'm going to spend the $500 I have on lotto tickets so I could win that 5k" Of course there are people who agree with with that logic.

[Edited on March 10, 2006 at 10:18 AM. Reason : blah]

3/10/2006 10:08:26 AM

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"what happened to freedom to do what you like with your money? Because poor people do something stupid, that doesn't mean it should be illegal. It means they should be better educated by those who DO know better."

Then why do we place limitations on where welfare money/foodstamps can go? The whole point is not that I have a problem with playing the lottery, or even gambling, its that you are getting your extra money not from an equal spread of society... you are "taxing" the people that we spend so much money and time trying to help. Instead of a lottery could we not simply add a sliver of income/sales/whatever tax? A lottery only benefits me as an upper-middle class individual... I will never buy lottery tickets because I am educated enough to understand the odds and what makes better economic sense for myself. If the government needs a larger income base then they've done so in a way that disproportionately takes from the "lower" segment of society (as evident in the numbers) instead of getting it equally from everyone (or even more from the wealthy, like with income tax). THe government is flat out exploiting the lower-middle class.

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"rich people/eople with money to live dont play cause they dont need the money as badly, not because they are SMARTER, so fucking stupid"

Exactly, people with money (or common sense knowledge of gambling odds) know that it is pointless to participate so in essence stupid people and poor people with a dream are being drained of their money by the government instead of everyone equally.

I am amazed that any liberal would support the lottery... it has "fat pocketed Republican" written all over it.

3/10/2006 11:21:24 AM

^ It's not a "tax" because it's voluntary.

I'm not saying I support a lottery or the statistics arent true, but there's no explotation here.

Noone is forcing anybody to go buy a lotto ticket.

3/10/2006 11:27:35 AM

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"Apparently the South has this problem. I never saw anything like it in CT.."

thats because there are no minorities in CT

3/10/2006 11:48:30 AM

^^ Regardless of whether it's voluntary, it's a state run program to get money for the state. Just because it's voluntary doesn't mean it isn't a tax. A piss poor one at that, with a third or less of the money actually ending up going to state programs. It's a tax for legislators who are too pussy to levy a tax.

3/10/2006 11:57:21 AM

Just go to Gasburg, VA the next time the lottery gets really high. It's insane. There will be lines of people buying 50+ tickets in ragged clothes driving ragged cars. Meanwhile, I stop in and buy 1-5 tickets and feel like I'm wasting my money.

I worked with some older guys when I was in college that would drive to VA every week to buy tickets. These guys were probably pulling in $300 - $child support every week and they were spending almost every dime on cigarrettes and lottery tickets. They actually thought of it as a retirement/investing plan. It's very sad.

I'm still in favor of it though. Just because some people can't handle it doesn't mean that the rest of us shouldn't be allowed to participate.

3/10/2006 12:44:27 PM

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"^ It's not a "tax" because it's voluntary. I'm not saying I support a lottery or the statistics arent true, but there's no explotation here. Noone is forcing anybody to go buy a lotto ticket."

I never said it was a tax and there is a reason I put "taxing" in quotes. It is exploitation when you know full well who the target audience/bulk of customers are. Like I said, why is the lottery a better solution than an even tax across the board? Heaven forbid we actually make budget cuts. The goal of the state is to increase income and they are choosing to go a route that is documented as pulling far more money from minorities, the under-educated, and the poor instead of one that applies equally to society.

3/10/2006 12:44:35 PM

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"Is that Sapphire Lake in the first picture? "

Farfield Lake....what do u know about Sapphire Valley?

3/10/2006 12:49:23 PM

I guarantee you I will spend a lot more than I should on this thing.

3/10/2006 12:53:09 PM

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"Instead of a lottery could we not simply add a sliver of income/sales/whatever tax?"

They could ... but look how much opposition comes from increasing student fees. Good luck doing that at the state level. Then you run into the issue of how to spend that money and blah blah blah.

(I don't have a link at the immediate moment, but CT has is one of the highest per capita income states ... WAY above the national average.)

3/10/2006 2:26:29 PM

Like I said.

They need a tax. But politicians are so scared of asking for money they need so they do stupid shit like this, which is effectively an incredibly inefficient, incredibly regressive tax.

DOES NOBODY SEE THE IRONY IN TAKING MONEY FROM THE STUPID TO PAY FOR EDUCATION?

3/10/2006 2:28:09 PM

3/10/2006 3:02:44 PM

lmao

gg

3/10/2006 4:13:01 PM

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"call me crazy, but im partial to the gawdy/tacky ones like the tic-tac-toe and blackjack"

i'm with you on that...it's a lottery ticket, not a tourism brochure

3/11/2006 7:08:31 AM

The first six months are going to be a pain in the ass for retailers, especially since retailers have to pay all prizes from $1 to $599.

Guess I should go buy myself a pistol and take it to work with me in case some idiot decides he wants to rob my ass at night.

3/11/2006 9:43:45 AM