D.C. lottery ticket wins $144M Powerball jackpot

Comment #24

sirbrad — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:51:15 GMT

Negative? Where? I am factual and just bored of the same old line of crap. You don't know what negative means obviously.

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charmed7 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:16:29 GMT

LOL LOL! good one TODD

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ThatScaryChick — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:12:39 GMT

I was thinking the same thing. Congrats to the winner(s)! I am sure they are very happy at this moment.

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dpoly1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:32:47 GMT

It is a no-brainer !

Take the cash to avoid The Democratic Share The Wealth Plan !!!!!

I wouldn't contribute any more than I had to - to TRICKLE DOWN POVERTY

Comment #20

jarasan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:47:37 GMT

Congrats to the winner(s), I bet it is an individual. The pathetic webmasters of the junk DC lottery new website have yet to comment where the ticket was sold. It wasn't me..............darney! But you know what? There is always Saturday, $20 million ain't chump change.

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Littlemanjen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:50:19 GMT

brad is always negative...Geez!!! Congrats to the winner(s).

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Todd — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:23:16 GMT

It could be poetic justice -- they'll be forcing themselves to spread their wealth around .

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MaddMike51 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:00:33 GMT

If it meant that they would retire,I hope it was a group of democrat senators.

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awwcrap — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:28:59 GMT

I'll make it more depressing- Maybe congress and the senate had a lottery pool-maybe they won the lottery heh heh

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DC81 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:20:50 GMT

It doesn't matter if they had picked the lump sum or the annuity, if they're stupid with the money they're going to end up back where they started or probably worse. There's been many lottery winners who took the annuity and ended up selling it a company for significantly less than it's worth just to cover their bills because they over spent or for some reason thought they paid all the taxes on it to going along with that over spending. The money isn't the issue, the issue is the person who won... [ More ]

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Todd — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:31:40 GMT

Geez Louise, I've never heard such depressing comments after a jackpot win of this size. Did everyone's Prozac prescription run out at once?

Congrats to the winner or winners! Nice to hear about a win from D.C.

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hearsetrax — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:54:12 GMT

is as

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sirbrad — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:44:24 GMT

Blah Blah yeah sure there was one winner. I also bet it was another pool who plans on nothing changing much too. Same old same old.

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Raven62 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:33:42 GMT

Have you ever seen or heard news reports about lottery winners becoming broke? Can you imagine? They have no money left!

Many lottery winners, especially those who take a lump sum are now poor. How could that possibly be? Many people think that if they could just win the lottery, their whole life would change for the best. They think that once they win all that cash, then all their problems will disappear. Therefore, week after week they buy lottery tickets, hoping to win.

Comment #10

frbl — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:12:07 GMT

$144 million?

That's gross...

Sorry - reallly, really bad pun. Probably bad enough to get me kicked off as a member...

Have mercy....

Comment #9

x1kosmic — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:39:18 GMT

I kinda liked, Ravens comments,

Can anyone imagine a time, when you'd have to clear, your own Land,

Raise your animals, Grow your own food, Have big Happy Families? Build yourown Houses?

Now we just rely, mostly, on those little Green peices of paper.

Congrat's to the winner.

Comment #8

OldSchoolPa — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:28:11 GMT

Sounds like Raven62 is just a wee bit mad about having driven all the way to a neighboring powerball state and came up empty....

Well here's hoping the next Mega Millions and Powerball winner comes from the Midwest...namely the states that I play in...and specifically the store I buy my tickets from....and hopefully the tickets I bought for that drawing...that is what I call channeling my inner power to achieve a desireable outcome...and you are darn skippy I will be very materialistic....Can... [ More ]

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Piaceri — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:22:25 GMT

Thanks for the advice.

Now off to buy my Mega Millions tickets for Friday's drawing......

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Todd — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:06 GMT

Who is this, and what have you done with Raven

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BORGUSX — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:35:23 GMT

Maybe the poster played the lottery to pay their bills or to donate the money to a worthy cause like me,lol.

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GamerMom — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:48:12 GMT

um...so then why do you play the lottery

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hearsetrax — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:36:44 GMT

and thanks for the wet blanket

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Raven62 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:19:53 GMT

There is an absolute irony in materialism. When we focus our efforts on acquiring material possessions, it is with the intention of making ourselves happier, but instead we are feeding an obstacle to happiness.

Acquiring material possessions merely suspends dissatisfaction. This dissatisfaction is perpetuated by a culture of advertising that is designed to convince us that we are not happy and need to purchase something that will make us happy. If you examine most any advertisement on tele... [ More ]

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Halle99 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:32:17 GMT

Yeah I am the first one to comment...............................

Congrats to the winner(s).....That is a cool check, do your thing before claiming......

Now back to Mega Millions......

D.C. lottery ticket wins $144M Powerball jackpot

Lottery Post — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:03:56 GMT

One lottery ticket sold in Washington, D.C. matched all 6 numbers in the Wednesday evening Powerball drawing, and is now worth $144 million to the lucky ticket-holder.

The holder of the winning ticket will now have to decide whether to take the 29-year, 30-installment annuity, or the one time cash lump sum amount of $79,681,116.

There were a total of 903,448 additional winning tickets in America's Game Wednesday evening. Those tickets won prizes totaling $8,450,412.

The numbers drawn We... [ More ]