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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:58 pm
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:Why isn't she pooled up with us, anyway?
She's in with her family.
I've usually got some with work folks too, but forgot today.
Why isn't her entire family pooled up with us?
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:11 pm
by TPRJones
What are you, some sort of commie?
If we win, I think I'll buy a smart car.
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:37 pm
by Leisher
Why isn't her entire family pooled up with us?
Sorry Obama.
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:27 am
by GORDON
Well then I guess if that's how it is...
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:37 pm
by TheCatt
We won $0 last time.
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:58 am
by TheCatt
Maybe someone who isn't cursed needs to buy.
So.... neither lottery gone. Anyone in?
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:11 am
by TPRJones
I think I'm done for now. Two's my limit: I'm driving.
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:14 pm
by Leisher
Catt I'll keep running the same deal with you.
Gordo, you still in?
We're sure to win now that TPR is out.
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:17 pm
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:Gordo, you still in?
I'm thinking about it.
Trying to reconcile how wanting a bigger group going in for tickets makes one a "commie."
I can't be no commie.
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:26 pm
by Leisher
I'm thinking about it.
Trying to reconcile how wanting a bigger group going in for tickets makes one a "commie."
I can't be no commie.
Sometimes you are a woman.
I called you Obama because I was wondering what would happen if we really just kept asking people to join our group person by person. Eventually, the whole country would be in the same pool and we'd all win just enough to pay more in taxes than we'd win.
As for her, I don't have control over her family's thing, that's on them. Still, if you decided to go grab some tickets outside our pool, I don't see the problem. Catt obviously did. Ditto for my wife.
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:51 pm
by TheCatt
Well, I grabbed pre-pool for the drawing before we even pooled, just did a multi-draw on it.
I'm down, will buy this week for whomever.
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:55 pm
by TPRJones
GORDON wrote:Trying to reconcile how wanting a bigger group going in for tickets makes one a "commie."
It makes sense to pool reasources. That's a fine approach for a good red-blooded capitolist and nothin gto be ashamed of.
To a degree. It's when you start to be annoyed with someone who has elected not to join in your group and instead competes with you that you swing over into being a commie. A capitolist doesn't mind competition, and may even invite it in order to better fine-tune their own efforts through the challenge of it. A communist reacts to competition with confusion, anger, and fear.
That all having been said, I was just joking. :p
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:07 pm
by Malcolm
Rockefeller was a capitalist. He fucking HATED competition. From what I've seen, a communist wants people to play by some arbitrary set of rules, usually for the "good of society." The commie is shocked, SHOCKED that someone wouldn't sacrifice themselves for the good of the state, so long as "someone" isn't them. The capitalist understands that goddamn near everything has a price, & when it comes to your own good or your neighbour's good, you pick yours 99.9% of the time when push comes to shove.
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:15 pm
by TheCatt
I'm OK with any pool that leaves me at least $5 million after taxes/one-time payout, etc (so roughly $20 million of the gross)
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:21 pm
by TPRJones
Malcolm wrote:Rockefeller was a capitalist. He fucking HATED competition.
Okay, let me rephrase that: a good capitalist doesn't fear or hate competition. I don't think of Rockefeller as a good capitalist. He was a Robber Baron, and they were not good for or to capitalism as a whole. Those tactics usually do not work out well in the long run, and do not advance the overall goal of fostering a vibrant and profitable marketplace. Even if from time to time events coincide to make them good for a handful of individuals for a time.
In the end, a good capitalist knows that when you damage the marketplace, you damage your own long-term prospects.
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:07 pm
by GORDON
I think it was Carnegie, another robber baron, responsible for putting libraries in small towns all over the country that would not otherwise have them. Thousand, iirc.
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:25 am
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:I think it was Carnegie, another robber baron, responsible for putting libraries in small towns all over the country that would not otherwise have them. Thousand, iirc.
He was different than Rocke.
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:48 am
by GORDON
I guess put me down for $5 for each, and I will owe both of you.
Y'all caught me right after I already spent my monthly discretionary funds, and that particular bank balance is near zero.
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:00 am
by Leisher
I will pick up tickets this afternoon.
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:50 pm
by Leisher
Last call for tickets.
The train leaves at 5:00 p.m. EST.
So far I'm buying for me, Catt, and Gordo.