$640 MILLION: MEGA MANIA!

Even if it were rolled into a tube and placed into a small container, say the diameter of an ink pen, it likely would not make it out of the stomach and definitely not past the duodenum. Vomiting would not work, even if someone could try to administer the patient a solution of activated charcoal (last I heard, Doc's stopped using ipecac) they would run risk of the foreign body damaging the patient's upper gastrointestinal tract. Best solution would be surgical removal of the foreign body under general anesthesia.

exactly . I meant to include that.

sure it is exciting to imagine one person (yourself) winning all this, but the excitement diminishes when you realize there will probably be 3 to 4 winners.  after you split the pot it just ends up being another ordinary jackpot that we seen many times.

just the same,i'd be happy w/ a fraction.

I just heard on the nightly news (they said it was based on their research) that 9 of 10 lottery winners burn through all of their money in 5 years???? OMG.

What is doing the 1/10?

sensationalism,

If they said 5 of 10 i would find it more credible,

i can't beleive we have that many idiots.

Just watched the nightly news and they had Suze Orman on there, talking about what you should do. One thing she stated was to imagine you have won and make your plans on how you would handle it.....She also said that money might not make you happy but being broke, surely wont.......I think most of us here on L.P talk about what we would do if we won every day....SO, WE ARE READY....well....I am......  they also mentioned that 14,000,000 tickets are being sold every hour for this jackpot.....wow,,,,,,,,,,Good luck to all

Doesn't your #1 conflict with your #4? If you sign the ticket, your name WILL be out there as I'm pretty sure you can't claim via trust if your ticket is signed with your name.

Also #6... I'll be splitting it up with family to begin with so they'll have their money that's all theirs and have to decide how to protect/spend it and I'll have mine. If they lose it oh well... sorry.

Agreed!

oh I can believe that there are that many idiots out there.  check out your own family... how many of them do you think would NOT be broke w/in 5 or so years?  then look at the odds for the rest of the country. i doubt that many of the 'lower' intellect would be here on LP... so if we are part of the 'not lower' section... and OUR odds are bad within our own families... 

yes 5 years for a NORMAL jackpot... but for this one?  11? 

The news is always negative, and they know that all the losers will want to hear that.

The problem I have with those numbers is - from watching the shows - they report any decent sized lottery win as being a "lottery winner". So if you won $10,000 or $250,000 or $1,000,000 or $250,000,000 you're treated the same way. And if you think about how many more lower amount winners there are it's not too surprising that they've spent it. Also there are flaws in their research, such as the inability to know how those unnamed (those claiming in a trust or some such thing) winners are doing.

Yea, it may still be a high number of JACKPOT lottery winners that burn through their money, but I doubt it's 90% of them.

I looked at a news story about drawing. It's expected to make $1.4 billion in sales.

I think it's all about mind games... making people buy more so they have a better chance to win, thus proving to people that they could handle and keep their winnings for 5+ years.