http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2013/03/23/tax-on-320-million-powerball-jackpot-millions-more-than-in-2012/

too bad i didn't win

 

I was gonna pay for Raider's gastric bypass surgery. Sorry bro… keep saving up 

Not much would change for me.  I'd pay some things off and keep doing what I'm doing.  Eventually I'd be that creepy guy with the long beard that hangs out on the porch with a cooler next me and a worn out old cowboy hat with a hole in it. 

I'd move into the house to the right of slonezp.

Oh and a helicopter landing pad.  I'd need one.  Sometimes I get a yearning for tacos at 2 in the morning.  Would it be difficult to obtain a permit to build a platform?  Say, over Slone's house?  Or maybe his front yard.  I don't know where it would look better. 

I would put most of it away for a rainy day. I would buy a boat and something to haul it with.

I would spend 100% of my time enjoying myself, with the company of my peoples who would be well taken care of.

I would give the 500 million to the government to pay off .000027% of our nations debt...

 

Yeah, and three minutes later the national debt will be right back where it was!

Is that ICP in the pic? GWAR? Another day at the Raider Retreat?

No but that's me on the right

I remember reading (and am too lazy to try and find it again) an analysis of the odds of winning the Powerball lottery when buying 5 tickets (or some small amount like that).  Statistically, there is no difference in the odds when you buy that number of tickets and when you buy no tickets.  Bummer.

 

We go to Vegas a couple of times a year, & often grab a bite to eat in the casino's café, where you can play keno as you eat.  I know the odds of keno are horrible, but I enjoy messing with numbers, so I often will just play numbers to the side (not actually betting, just keeping track of what I would have won or lost).  Something to do while waiting for the food.  One of the things I like to track is how often the numbers split between the top 40 numbers & bottom 40 numbers.  No matter how it begins, a majority of time the split will be 10/10 or 9/11, which in the payout is a loser.  Well one time, I was pretending to play $5 a hand and betting the top/bottom.  The first 3 drawings were true to form, losers.  I was talking with my wife as the 4th drawing began and looked up at the board about 30 seconds or so after the numbers began to come out.  The first 15 numbers had been drawn & all 15 were on the top.  Number 16, on the top.  17 & 18 on top.  I was totally flabbergasted, I wasn't sure if I was seeing what I was seeing.  Number 19 was a bottom number and number 20 was a top number.  19 of the 20 numbers were in the 1-40 grouping, which has a payout of 5000 to 1.  So I won a pretend $25,000.  No one congratulated me.  I don't do that stupid pretend gambling anymore...

When it reaches monumental levels I usually buy a few tickets.  You just never know....

Oh and a helicopter landing pad.  I'd need one.  Sometimes I get a yearning for tacos at 2 in the morning.  Would it be difficult to obtain a permit to build a platform?  Say, over Slone's house?  Or maybe his front yard.  I don't know where it would look better. 

Are you saying you already have the helicopter but no place to park it?

I remember reading (and am too lazy to try and find it again) an analysis of the odds of winning the Powerball lottery when buying 5 tickets (or some small amount like that).  Statistically, there is no difference in the odds when you buy that number of tickets and when you buy no tickets.  Bummer.

 

We go to Vegas a couple of times a year, & often grab a bite to eat in the casino's café, where you can play keno as you eat.  I know the odds of keno are horrible, but I enjoy messing with numbers, so I often will just play numbers to the side (not actually betting, just keeping track of what I would have won or lost).  Something to do while waiting for the food.  One of the things I like to track is how often the numbers split between the top 40 numbers & bottom 40 numbers.  No matter how it begins, a majority of time the split will be 10/10 or 9/11, which in the payout is a loser.  Well one time, I was pretending to play $5 a hand and betting the top/bottom.  The first 3 drawings were true to form, losers.  I was talking with my wife as the 4th drawing began and looked up at the board about 30 seconds or so after the numbers began to come out.  The first 15 numbers had been drawn & all 15 were on the top.  Number 16, on the top.  17 & 18 on top.  I was totally flabbergasted, I wasn't sure if I was seeing what I was seeing.  Number 19 was a bottom number and number 20 was a top number.  19 of the 20 numbers were in the 1-40 grouping, which has a payout of 5000 to 1.  So I won a pretend $25,000.  No one congratulated me.  I don't do that stupid pretend gambling anymore...

Pretend gambling sounds about as much fun as pretend drinking.

I had friends that lost their house to uncontrolled gambling. Their rich aunt passed,left a small fortune to  them and they lost that too..

 

We hit the casinos  once a month or so just for fun. SO one nite I had to show my wife the merits of drinking beer.I was done with the slots and ordered a beer.Just then she shows up ready to leave.I said hold on ,sit here and play this fishing related slot while I finish my beer.Long story short,she wins a little over $400 waiting for me.

 

Power Ball Win==I would get me some new teeth,new glasses,new hair and a good hearing aid. Next I would buy a gross of Viaga pills ,hire a full time medical team to to travel with me on the road to Vegas.

Id have a nitro dragster team

Or

Id fish every tourny i could find lol

Are you saying you already have the helicopter but no place to park it?

 

After building the platform, the helicopter would be the easy part. 

Well, I would retire.  I have some medical issues/complications.

 

10% to church

 

I'd buy a house in CO, or WY, or MT for the summer to fly fish for trout, and a house on Toledo Bend for the winter months.

 

Fix up a couple of my cars, send my wife to school full time to get her degree and send my mom to Alaska, she has been talking about going for years.  The rest, I would save, play guitar, tie flies, fish, sleep all day.

 

Wdy

After building the platform, the helicopter would be the easy part. 

If we build it in Chicago it's going to cost. Union labor isn't cheap. We'll need laborers to dig the hole, Teamsters to deliver the cement. Cement masons to finish off the pad and painters to paint the big X on the pad, and electricians to light up the pad for those midnight taco runs.(Still can't figure out how to get the helicopter thru the drive -thru but I guess we'll cross that path when we get to it)  Almost forgot. Corruption tax

If we build it in Chicago it's going to cost. Union labor isn't cheap. We'll need laborers to dig the hole, Teamsters to deliver the cement. Cement masons to finish off the pad and painters to paint the big X on the pad, and electricians to light up the pad for those midnight taco runs.(Still can't figure out how to get the helicopter thru the drive -thru but I guess we'll cross that path when we get to it)  Almost forgot. Corruption tax

 

"Yes hi, I'm here to pick up that tacos to go order please for Robert, thank you"

Well, there goes my houseboat on the Mississippi River which I planned to keep in Wisconsin until Oct. and then have a crew take it down to KY. lake on the Tenn. river. Fish all the lakes on the Tenn. river system and arrive on Guntersville in late summer for the frog bite. Then fish back to Wi. for the great Oct. fishing. Rinse and repeat. Guys gotta have a dream don't they?

After building the platform, the helicopter would be the easy part. 

I heard Raider has one. Only he would buy a cold war era, Russian helicopter. Then Paint a eagle on it. 

Raiders helicopter is more like this. This is Alabama after all.

That's perfect.  I'll take 2. 

Lotteries are nothing more than legalized numbers racket, which help build organize crime.  The odds of winning was probably better when the Purple Gang ran the racket.

The lottery is not gambling, it's taking a shot for a few bucks to see if you can get lucky. Real gamblers don't rely on luck, they know the game and their skill level when it comes to one on one gambling like pool or poker.  Las Vegas wasn't built on people winning house games.

Which is why I don't gamble.  I'm not smart enough.