Entries Tagged as 'Opinion'

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Scottish Woman Wins the Euro Millions

An ordinary postal worker in Scotland has just suddenly surpassed the wealth of some of the most well known names around the world, including Princes William and Harry. Angela Kelly, a former postal worker in East Kilbride bought a Euro Millions lottery ticket for 1.50 a week before at Sainsburys. She found out she was [...]

Friday, August 10th, 2007

So You’ve Won The Lottery?

This is it, the dream that countless people have always had. You just won the lottery big time! So what are you supposed to do next? You have heard of all those horror stories about lottery winners. There are countless variations, lost lottery tickets, winnings lost due to taxes and improper handling of the money, [...]

Monday, July 30th, 2007

More Things to Do With A Lottery Ticket

Alright, I know some of you may not agree with me regarding my last post but I just couldn’t help it, here’s another installment on radical things you can do with a lottery ticket.
Why not pool together a group of parents from your kid’s school and form a lottery syndicate with them? If you already [...]

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Things to Do With A Lottery Ticket

Let’s deviate from the numbers and all that math that people tend to focus on when talking about the lottery.  For you avid lottery enthusiasts out there, have you ever thought of revolutionary ways you could put a lottery ticket to use?  This post may strike others as funny, others useless.  It is up to [...]

Monday, July 16th, 2007

David Lee Edward’s Lottery Winner’s Story

We’ve all heard stories about how lottery winners become one day millionaires and in the end become worse off than they actually started. Yet many of those stories are nothing but urban legends. Here’s one man’s real story, David Lee Edwards, an ex-con who won in the 2001 Powerball.
According to a feature done on him [...]

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Do lotteries exploit the hopes of poor people?

Of all forms of gambling activities, why are lotteries so popular? Why do most people prefer to take their chances on lottery tickets instead of other forms of gambling / entertainment? Why is it that, of all kinds of gambling activities, lottery seems to be the game of choice among those who belong in the [...]