anybody buying a powerball ticket?

[jennlin]

record high jackpot, currently at $550M

Lottery officials put the odds of winning Wednesday's Powerball pot at one in 175 million, meaning you are 25 times more likely to win an Academy Award.

Skip Garibaldi, a professor of mathematics at Emory University in Atlanta, provides additional perspective: You are three times more likely to die from a falling coconut, he says; seven times more likely to die from fireworks, "and way more likely to die from flesh-eating bacteria" (115 fatalities a year) than you are to win the Powerball lottery.

i'm still taking the chances. can't win if you don't buy a ticket.

[dana86]

I went out and got one. First lotto ticket I have ever bought.

[Deleted]

Me? No. In fact, I just spent $1 on cheetos and I feel like my money was much better spent on that.

H keeps joking that he's going to get one on his way home from work.

[Deleted]

I think about it but am too lazy to walk over to the gas station at lunch. Maybe on my way home if I think about it. Last time I thought about buying a ticket I was actually at FM, but then the line at the machine was INSANE so I said fuhgeddaboutit

[picksthemusic]

I'm probably going to get $5 worth or something. Even if I win part of a prize, that'd be fine.

[jennlin]

Nov 28, 2012 16:41:10 GMT -5 @uwhuskygirl said:

Me? No. In fact, I just spent $1 on cheetos and I feel like my money was much better spent on that.

H keeps joking that he's going to get one on his way home from work.

1) cheetos are really good.

2) i think of it as a donation to public schools.

[jennlin]

just found a link that sorta talks about the other beneficiaries from lotto (college scholarships, paying for the CLINK). i've seen a pie chart before...can't find it right now..

seattletimes.com/html/edcetera/2019783173_550m_powerball_lottery_fever_g.html

[fiddles]

A CW & I went in on it. We are planning on telling our boss we quit when we accept our check on live TV.