Catch-All Anything Thread

[southsider2k5]

540 or 250. I would still be pretty excited to win that.

 

 

By excited I mean running down the street screaming like a mad person.

 

I'm taking all of Soxtalk to a patio party.

[farmteam]

I'm taking all of Soxtalk to a patio party.

 

Just buy a share in the damn team, at that point.

Edited March 29, 2012 by farmteam

[southsider2k5]

Just buy a share in the damn team, at that point.

 

That is actually my big goal. It would be my dream to buy a piece of the team and sit on the Board of Directors.

[Iwritecode]

Cash option is $389 million, meaning you would come into the neighborhood of $250 million in cash after taxes.

 

I joined in with a pool at work. It cost me $2 and we got $40 worth of tickets. $250 million / 20 = $12.5 million.

 

Yea, I can live with that.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Forget office pools. I'm a greedy bastard, I want it to myself! Ok, but seriously, $12.5 million is a nice return on $2.

[Iwritecode]

Forget office pools. I'm a greedy bastard, I want it to myself! Ok, but seriously, $12.5 million is a nice return on $2.

 

Yea, it would be nice to have it all for myself but it would really suck to be the one guy that didn't get in on it when everyone else in the office is taking an early retirement.

[southsider2k5]

Yea, it would be nice to have it all for myself but it would really suck to be the one guy that didn't get in on it when everyone else in the office is taking an early retirement.

 

My boss who never buys in, threw in his $5 today because he didn't want to be the only left in the office on Monday.

[HuskyCaucasian]

My boss who never buys in, threw in his $5 today because he didn't want to be the only left in the office on Monday.

HA! THat's an awesome reason.

[LittleHurt05]

$640,000,000

[southsider2k5]

$640,000,000

 

$462 cash option, or $280m cash, after taxes.

[gatnom]

Forget office pools. I'm a greedy bastard, I want it to myself! Ok, but seriously, $12.5 million is a nice return on $2.

 

If I had $12.5 million for every time I invested $2, I'd be a rich man.

 

 

[knightni]

http://www.sbnation.com/2012/3/30/2913582/...-mascot-vie-for

 

VOTE!

[bigruss]

As much as I love the facial expression of the UM punter, that raptor falling is something you'd think was thought up in a movie.

 

The fall was just so perfect, between the still "chomping" mouth, the face plant, and the tail that deflates after the fall, it's just perfection.

[Milkman delivers]

If I had $12.5 million for every time I invested $2, I'd be a rich man.

 

[Texsox]

My boss who never buys in, threw in his $5 today because he didn't want to be the only left in the office on Monday.

 

 

When I was working in Mexico the owner wanted in the office pool so he could "piss on his desk with the rest of us on Monday"! Funniest thing he ever said

[SoxFan1]

Fogo de Chao is heaven on earth.

[bigruss]

 

The mariachi band had me cracking up.

[southsider2k5]

Fogo de Chao is heaven on earth.

 

Lunch there is the best idea ever. Half the price, same amount of food.

[Brian]

 

The mariachi band had me cracking up.

 

Teacher was a good sport. What did he do on the chalkboard at the end? Looks like some kind of stuff only Will Hunting would understand.

[Balta1701]

Teacher was a good sport. What did he do on the chalkboard at the end? Looks like some kind of stuff only Will Hunting would understand.

It's in the middle of an organic chemistry class, and he treated the corner of the Z as though it was a carbon-carbon bond, so he put an H and an OH group onto that corner, with one of them coming out of the board towards the class and the other one going into the board. (Organic chem, you typically don't write out every C when you are drawing a molecule, you just show connecting lines like that. It's a decent quick reaction by him, I liked it).

[SoxAce]

My sister is pregnant. Gonna be a first time uncle. (at first excited and wanted to kill her boyfriend all mixed in, but calmed down later on)

[LittleHurt05]

 

Md. woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McD's co-workers

 

 

Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald’s into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.

 

Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought for herself and has no intention of sharing.

 

“We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The ‘winning’ ticket] wasn’t on the group plan,” McDonald’s “winner’’ Mirlande Wilson 37, told The Post yesterday, insisting she alone bought one of the three tickets nationwide that will split a record $656 million payout.

 

“I was in the group, but this was separate. The winning ticket was a separate ticket,” the single mother of seven said as she and her fiancé left her home in the squalid Westport neighborhood to attend church.

 

The Haitian immigrant refused to show what she said was the winning ticket, claiming she had it hidden in another location and would present it to lottery officials today.

 

Pressed as the day went on, she became more cagey.

 

“I don’t know if I won. Some of the numbers were familiar. I recognized some of [them],’’ she said. “I don’t know why’’ people are saying differently. “I’m going to go to the lottery office [today]. I bought some tickets separately.”

 

With winning tickets also sold in Illinois and Kansas, a single Maryland winner would get an after-tax lump sum of $105 million, or $5.59 million a year for 26 years.

 

If Wilson won, and if it was with a pooled work ticket, the situation would be shockingly similar to that of New Jersey lottery louse Americo Lopes, who tried to screw five former colleagues after hitting a $24 million jackpot before a jury ordered him to spread the wealth.

 

Wilson’s co-workers — who make little more than $7.50 an hour — are sizzling with anger over the notion.

 

“She can’ t do this to us!” said Suleiman Osman Husein, a shift manager and one of 15 members in the pool. “We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!”

 

A man identifying himself as the boyfriend of a McDonald’s manager named Layla, who was part of the pool, said Wilson bought tickets for the group at the 7-Eleven in Milford Mill, where the winning ticket was sold.

 

The group’s tickets — along with a list of those who contributed to the pool — were left in an office safe at the burger joint, said the man, who gave only his first name, Allen, as he stood next to Layla. She declined to comment.

 

Then, late Friday, before the night’s drawing, the owner of the McDonald’s, Birul Desai, gave Wilson $5 to buy more tickets for the pool on her way home from work, and she went back to the 7-Eleven and bought them, Allen said.

 

Wilson took those tickets home with her, Allen said.

 

But Wilson insisted yesterday that she had bought the second batch with an unidentified pal — not for the pool — and that the winning ticket was among them.

 

A day earlier, a delirious Wilson had called co-workers to break the news — tellingly used the first-person singular.

 

“I won! I won!” she cried, Allen said.

 

Another colleague, Davon Wilson, no relation, said he was there when Mirlande Wilson called.

 

“She said, ‘Turn on the news.’ She said she had won. I thought it was a joke or something. She doesn’t seem like a person who’d do this,” he said.

 

Allan said he and Layla went to Wilson’s home and pounded on the door for 20 minutes until she finally came out.

 

“These people are going to kill you. It’s not worth your life!” Allen said he told her.

 

“All right! All right! I’ll share, but I can’t find the ticket right now,” she finally said, according to Allen.

 

Yohannes Michael, a clerk at the 7-Eleven where Wilson bought the tickets, expressed doubts about her story when he said yesterday that lottery officials have reviewed the store’s video and believe that a man bought the winning ticket. Lottery rep Carole Everett would not confirm that.

 

Reached at his Fairfax, Va., home, Desai, the McDonald’s owner, declined to comment except to say, “It’s all bulls--t, if you ask me. It’s speculation.”

[cabiness42]

I have had various friends and co-workers ask me to join regular lottery groups. My response is always the same: If you have something down in writing, I'll be happy to join. None of them had anything in writing, nor were they willing to put it in writing, and this is exactly why I insist on it.

[Balta1701]

I have had various friends and co-workers ask me to join regular lottery groups. My response is always the same: If you have something down in writing, I'll be happy to join. None of them had anything in writing, nor were they willing to put it in writing, and this is exactly why I insist on it.

And now 1/3 of that payment will be spent on lawyers for all parties.

[HuskyCaucasian]

I have had various friends and co-workers ask me to join regular lottery groups. My response is always the same: If you have something down in writing, I'll be happy to join. None of them had anything in writing, nor were they willing to put it in writing, and this is exactly why I insist on it.

Exactly. A written document with signatures and even photocopies of the tickets purchased. Hell, I'd even make two people go to buy the tickets to have a witness.