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• Karen Nathan

  

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  In the Martin Show, Martin's Lotto Ticket matched the Winning Numbers. The Jackpot was about 2 Million before taxes and fees. So let's say 1.5 Million in take home Winnings. Martin is ecstatic, does backflips and starts drinking a complete stranger's soda (Funny in the 90's, :D  shocking and gross in 2020/2021 due to the ongoing Covid Pandemic, :/ ) and starts showering himself, Gina, and Pam, Tommy, and Cole with gifts BEFORE going to the Press Conference... Uh oh. :/ He gave Pam a Wax Certificate (She was PISSED, LMAO! :D), got a manicure and a pedicure and a massage in his house, gave Tommy a $2,000 check, gave Cole an expensive gift, bought a bunch of Luxurious items for the apartment(One of them was a Luxurious Stairmaster)  gave Gina and himself a snazzy wardrobe. He assumed he would make up the gifts  he splurged on when he got the 1.5 Million. Uh oh.... :/

   

  At the Press Conference, Martin and Gina roll up to it(They literally arrive on a rolling device, LMAO! :D  looking all high and mighty. Gina and Martin are  HORRIFIED that 311 Random Strangers also had the same Winning Numbers making it a 312 tie, the biggest Lottery tie at the time and they had to split the money 312 ways. Ouch. :/ Gina jumped on a Lottery Official's back when those random People came looking for their own cut of the 1.5 Million after taxes and fees, LMAO! :D The Lottery Official understood why Gina was upset and didn't press charges on her for Assault. Martin and Gina are told that Martin gets about $50 a week before taxes and fees.

   

  A Martin Fan was like,"I work for The Lottery and Martin should actually be getting more like $300 a week before taxes and fees, not $50."

   

  $50 before taxes and fees seemed REALLY low to me, but $300 a week before taxes and fees seems REALLY high to me. How much should Martin have been getting a week? :)

  "What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

   

  At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬
• db101

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Karen Nathan on Oct 2, 2021

  In the Martin Show, Martin's Lotto Ticket matched the Winning Numbers. The Jackpot was about 2 Million before taxes and fees. So let's say 1.5 Million in take home Winnings. Martin is ecstatic, does backflips and starts drinking a complete stranger's soda (Funny in the 90's, :D  shocking and gross in 2020/2021 due to the ongoing Covid Pandemic, :/ ) and starts showering himself, Gina, and Pam, Tommy, and Cole with gifts BEFORE going to the Press Conference... Uh oh. :/ He gave Pam a Wax Certificate (She was PISSED, LMAO! :D), got a manicure and a pedicure and a massage in his house, gave Tommy a $2,000 check, gave Cole an expensive gift, bought a bunch of Luxurious items for the apartment(One of them was a Luxurious Stairmaster)  gave Gina and himself a snazzy wardrobe. He assumed he would make up the gifts  he splurged on when he got the 1.5 Million. Uh oh.... :/

   

  At the Press Conference, Martin and Gina roll up to it(They literally arrive on a rolling device, LMAO! :D  looking all high and mighty. Gina and Martin are  HORRIFIED that 311 Random Strangers also had the same Winning Numbers making it a 312 tie, the biggest Lottery tie at the time and they had to split the money 312 ways. Ouch. :/ Gina jumped on a Lottery Official's back when those random People came looking for their own cut of the 1.5 Million after taxes and fees, LMAO! :D The Lottery Official understood why Gina was upset and didn't press charges on her for Assault. Martin and Gina are told that Martin gets about $50 a week before taxes and fees.

   

  A Martin Fan was like,"I work for The Lottery and Martin should actually be getting more like $300 a week before taxes and fees, not $50."

   

  $50 before taxes and fees seemed REALLY low to me, but $300 a week before taxes and fees seems REALLY high to me. How much should Martin have been getting a week? :)

  It depends on how many years he is going to receive weekly payments.
  
  I'm surprised anyone still remembers the Martin Lawrence show!
• cottoneyedjoe

  

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  1.5 mill divided by 312 winners is less than $5000. I advise him to take the lump sum, LOL. Your post reminded me of the Breaking Bad episode where Walter buys a lottery ticket where the numbers are GPS coordinates. You should start a thread of favorite TV show episodes that somehow involve the lotto.
• Karen Nathan

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by cottoneyedjoe on Oct 2, 2021

  1.5 mill divided by 312 winners is less than $5000. I advise him to take the lump sum, LOL. Your post reminded me of the Breaking Bad episode where Walter buys a lottery ticket where the numbers are GPS coordinates. You should start a thread of favorite TV show episodes that somehow involve the lotto.

  Yep, it's about $4,807 in take home Winnings.(Did some calculations after your post. :) At the end of the episode, Martin does calculations and says that even if Martin returns all the Luxurious items he bought, he would still be $1,000 in DEBT, due to the non refundable things he did with the money(Pam's Wax Certificate, the $2,000 Check to Tommy OUCH, :/Martin's Massage, Manicure, Pedicure, I think he gave Cole a Vacation). Martin Fans pointed out on a now deleted YouTube video that Martin was showing signs of being REALLY financially irresponsible judging by the Luxurious items he bought for the Apartment and buying gifts for himself, Gina, and three Friends. The Fans pointed out he could have gotten a better Apartment with the money he used for the Luxurious items and gifts. They pointed out the multiple  Luxurious items in the small Apartment made them feel uncomfortable. The huge Stairmaster in that small Apartment was particularly uncomfortable looking. They pointed out that even if Martin had been the sole Winner, he would have been broke within a year or two with how he was throwing money around and not using that money to upgrade to a bigger Apartment since he had the means to buy all that stuff and the gifts even before he went to the Press Conference.

  "What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?

   

  At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬