On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:44:36 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 10:02:14 AM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 10:28:26 PM UTC-5, Cheryl wrote:
>> >
>> >> I think I'll buy a few more chances this week since no one won.
>> >
>> > Mathematically speaking, the difference between buying 1 ticket
>> > and 5 tickets is not worth the extra $8.
>> >
>> > (Of course, mathematically speaking, the ROI on even one ticket is
>> > so close to zero that no statistician would consider it worth buying
>> > even one.)
>> >
>> > But if it makes you happy, go ahead and buy more. My husband does.
>> >
>> > We don't buy tickets very often; just often enough to give our
>> > "what I'd do with the money" fantasies a little more immediacy.
>> >
>> > Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> Nobody that buys a ticket cares about all the math and statistics, if you
>> play you have a chance at a dream, if you don't...
>
>Nobody? Really nobody? Zero people in the entire pool of Powerball
>bettors? That's a sweeping generalization.
>
>I care about the math and statistics, and I occasionally buy a ticket.
>Your thesis is disproved, without malice.
>
>I'm still hoping I win. Retire on Thursday? Oh, heck yes!
>
>Cindy Hamilton

I'm already retired, been retired for ten years, I'm lacking
nothing... I can't think of one gotta-have with the winnings... only
reason I bought a ticket hoping to win was to rub it in the wannabe
retired faces. Now if winning the lottery could make me 16 years old
again, now yer tawkin'! Heck, I'd settle for forty. Someone like
Bwrrryan has squandered his youth, winning the lottery wouldn't change
his life style, he'd still be whining about China and Walmart, he'd
lose it all within six months because he's dumber than a load of cow
flop. Money has no value without the youth and the knowledge to enjoy
it.