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Florida Lottery joins Powerball
S.E.Iowa United States Member #59008 February 18, 2008 247 Posts Offline |
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I wonder if they're moving the whole operations to Florida or just the drawings? Although I prefer living near the mountains I'd surely take Florida flatlands if the move were paid for to escape the Iowa winters!  I'd rather live in Iowa and suffer through the long cold winters than live in Florida and put up with excessive heat,hurricanes,blue haired old ladies by the thousands and millions of people packed into the state like sardines in a can.I don't call that living.
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Sunny SW Florida United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4068 Posts Offline |
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I'd rather live in Iowa and suffer through the long cold winters than live in Florida and put up with excessive heat,hurricanes,blue haired old ladies by the thousands and millions of people packed into the state like sardines in a can.I don't call that living. Do you realize you are stereotyping an entire state? There are miles and miles of undeveloped land in FL, thousands of acres of ranches too.
BTW, I have lived here for 14 years and I've never seen a woman with blue hair. I've seen a lot of 20-something girls with tattoos and body piercing however.
Weather: So far this year we haven't had a hurricane and AFAIK no major hurricanes hit last year or in 2006. For your information: In over 100 years there has only been 7 category 4 hurricanes. Is it my imagination or has most of the tragic news lately been about the floods in Iowa?
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United States Member #61017 April 21, 2008 126 Posts Offline |
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excessive heat (thinks he watches too much Golden Girls)
LMAO i think that's the only thing you got right. but we have excessive heat here in Alabama. Florida has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. I won't ever live far from the Panama City Beach area.
Plus...wasn't it IOWA that had some pretty severe weather this year? hrmmmm
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Sunny SW Florida United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4068 Posts Offline |
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To OldSchoolPa - I honestly think the winners who say "next time I'm spending $3" are asked to say that for the press release. The 2 people you are talking about won $16M (with a $2 ticket) and $12M (with a $1 ticket) Seriously, if you won $16 million would you care? I doubt if someone who just won $12 million by spending $1 buck on his family's birthdays is disappointed he didn't win more. The only people I hear that from are posters on this board!
I don't think it's a dumb idea because it generates more money, but I agree with GamerMom about the concept. If you have $3 to spend on a Saturday night and you're going to bet on Lotto, it makes more sense to me to buy 3 tickets and give yourself 3 different chances to win something.
GamerMom - I'm pretty sure they'll keep the Lotto 6/53 game.
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S.E.Iowa United States Member #59008 February 18, 2008 247 Posts Offline |
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Do you realize you are stereotyping an entire state? There are miles and miles of undeveloped land in FL, thousands of acres of ranches too.
BTW, I have lived here for 14 years and I've never seen a woman with blue hair. I've seen a lot of 20-something girls with tattoos and body piercing however.
Weather: So far this year we haven't had a hurricane and AFAIK no major hurricanes hit last year or in 2006. For your information: In over 100 years there has only been 7 category 4 hurricanes. Is it my imagination or has most of the tragic news lately been about the floods in Iowa? I'm in my late 50's and I can't remember a year that Florida didn't make the news because of hurricanes...not one.They might not have been catagory 4's,but they were hurricanes just the same.
Yeah,Iowa had some terrible weather this spring and the flooding in some areas of the state was tragic.But I'd still choose to live in Iowa over just about any other area of America.Most other parts of America don't amount to much more than tourist destinations,in my opinion.Nice places to visit,but I wouldn't want to live there.
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United States Member #4963 May 30, 2004 2254 Posts Offline |
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sweet!! I know nothing about powerball. How much do the tickets cost?? GamerMom:
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fruit & supplie's most of the 50 state's with WATERMELON'$$$$$$$$$$$
GULL's eat the red meat "ONLY">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
BUOY's eat the "RINE" only >>> IF YOU "DARE" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
PSYKO wi$he's >>>>>>>>>>>> ALL of U >>> HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!!!!!!!
LOL
PSYKOMO
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Stroudsburg, PA United States Member #1860 July 11, 2003 2535 Posts Offline |
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GamerMom: Actually the Lotto Plus feature is the smartest thing the Florida lottery has done (aside from joining PB). When I finally got a trip down to Florida, the first thing I did was to purchase an advance play $3 ticket. Perhaps you didn't know that the Canadian lottery tickets are $3, but that is only for the base prize. So I would much rather spend $3 to win the base prize plus an extra $25 milliion. BTW what do you see all the winners who only bought a $1 ticket say when they claim their prize now that the Lotto Plus feature is in play..."next time I will buy the $3 ticket!!! So perhaps you are only speaking for yourself. Fair enough. But I know that if the stars align for me to win the Florida jackpot, I want to win as much money as I possibly can, and the Lotto Plus feature gives me that opportunity...that is all, just the opportunity to win more money. And no one can get mad about that. And in the meantime, when the draws don't match my numbers, I can feel satisfied that I have contributed to the education of Floridian children. But then again, I can see that many of the die hard Florida lottery players are actually retirees or transplants to Florida who currently don't have children in Florida public schools, so I guess they just don't care about that...only themselves and how much they have in the bank to go golfing, cruising, tanning, etc. How selfish. The big Canadian lotteries are $2, not $3. You only need one ticket to win. But you'll win more with one hundred.
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Marquette, MI United States Member #20869 August 20, 2005 193 Posts Offline |
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Well there goes the Florida in state game!
There are 29 other states to buy Powerball in so while the sales might spike in Florida for several months(or years) they will calm back down when everyone realizes that they aren't winning and nobody around them is winning and the jackpots are fewer and farther between in Florida.
PowerBall and MegaMillion are really just Jackpot vampires sucking up all the decent size jackpots that you or people around you have a chance of winning and substituting that with bigger jackpots that nobody except people in certain areas ever seem to win.
If people don't have the disposable income to buy in state games then why do they believe that they can afford powerball more than the other offerings?
I will go out on a limb and say this decision eventually wont work as well as they hope.
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Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 1048 Posts Offline |
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I smell a matrix change; probably bigger than Mega Millions. Hopefully this will result in a bigger minimum jackpot. $20M perhaps. Gonna win. 
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Michigan United States Member #55299 August 31, 2007 474 Posts Offline |
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Isn't there supposed to be a change this fall? In November or something? I thought I read something about that here a couple months ago. With odds like 1 in 175,711,536 how can I lose?!
You can't predict random.
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