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GiveFive

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Jul 11, 2023, 10:16 am

Everybody wants to win the lottery. You'll actually be able to do all the things that you previously could only dream of doing. Having big money gives you freedom that people who aren't wealthy dont have. You can buy an expensive house and car, go on exotic vacations, do anything you want whenever you want. Sure, going crazy with money is usually a recipe for disaster, but for the sake of this post I'll assume that many people wont blow it all in record time.

What are some good but not so obvious reasons to want to win? One reason I can think of is that I'd could "self insure" my property. I wouldn't have to buy insurance on my home if I didn't want to. Don't get me wrong, of course wealthy people buy insurance on their property. It's just that if they incurred a large loss, and their insurance company refused to pay the claim, they can basically absorb the hit and pay for the loss themselves. It's us little people that have to take the insurance company that refused to pay what we believe is a legitimate claim to court.

What else is there that isn't so obvious but is a nice reason to win a big jackpot??? G5

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Jul 11, 2023, 12:05 pm

Convert the winnings to enough gold coins to fill a vault so I can dive in it like Uncle Scrooge.
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Jul 11, 2023, 4:20 pm

Money is number one like everyone else. But for us data driven lottery players. Cracking the lottery would be the ultimate prize. After 100+ formulas, angles, and use of different wheels. If the data we punch in our computers every day got us that jackpot. The money would be great, but the icing on the cake would be..."The Data Driven Jackpot Win". I say it again...that would be the ultimate. I think it can be done. The hardest one is the first jackpot. Got to go..Rolling cash five up over 300k tonight.

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Jul 11, 2023, 7:05 pm

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Jul 11, 2023, 8:51 pm

I would like to win for several reasons...

1. I would like to prove to myself that manifesting works. It has worked for many other things and the lottery or a very large sum of money is one of the final things I would like to bring into my universe. I'm competitive that way.

2. I would like to make my family and a few friends financially free for the rest of their lives.

3. I would love to somehow receive my money and remain anonymous so that I could set up an account at a bank and have the bank call in people (that I choose) that are in need for various reasons and pick up an anonymous check. Same goes with local charities.
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Jul 12, 2023, 11:04 pm

i would like to win so that total strangers on a lottery forum can talk about me.
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Jul 13, 2023, 2:09 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Brock Lee on Jul 12, 2023
i would like to win so that total strangers on a lottery forum can talk about me.

Tell us your secrets, then we can talk about you anyways.
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Jul 13, 2023, 4:38 pm

Quote: Originally posted by sully16 on Jul 13, 2023
Tell us your secrets, then we can talk about you anyways.

ok my big secret is that all my life i thought my dad was bruce l. sprout. but later my mom told me that she had an affair with her optometrist, dr. kent c. goode.
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Jul 13, 2023, 4:45 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Brock Lee on Jul 13, 2023
ok my big secret is that all my life i thought my dad was bruce l. sprout. but later my mom told me that she had an affair with her optometrist, dr. kent c. goode.

Classic case of "who's yer daddy".

Or, maybe, "Hoosier Daddy"?

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Jul 13, 2023, 5:07 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Jul 13, 2023
Classic case of "who's yer daddy".

Or, maybe, "Hoosier Daddy"?
Hermanus104

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Jul 13, 2023, 11:54 pm

To be able to procure massive quantities of $1 bills to check to see if any of them have my date of birth as the serial number.

Today's winning 3-ball is going to be a number between 000 and 999.

In a lot of states, lotteries benefit education. That makes the REAL winners the only people who can't play!
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Jul 15, 2023, 5:38 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Brock Lee on Jul 13, 2023
ok my big secret is that all my life i thought my dad was bruce l. sprout. but later my mom told me that she had an affair with her optometrist, dr. kent c. goode.

OMG I think we may be shirt tail relatives. Dr. Kent C. Goode is my cousins brother in law. My cousin is a gastrointestinal doctor.

Ever heard of Dr. Sten K. Phardder? Look it up...there is a family tree on ancestry!
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Jul 15, 2023, 9:48 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Think on Jul 15, 2023
OMG I think we may be shirt tail relatives. Dr. Kent C. Goode is my cousins brother in law. My cousin is a gastrointestinal doctor.

Ever heard of Dr. Sten K. Phardder? Look it up...there is a family tree on ancestry!

sorry i don't think we are related. i asked my dad if there were any butt doctors in the family tree and he said there is only a proctologist, ben dover.
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Jul 17, 2023, 10:09 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Brock Lee on Jul 15, 2023
sorry i don't think we are related. i asked my dad if there were any butt doctors in the family tree and he said there is only a proctologist, ben dover.

Well Sten K. Phardder is a G.I. guy NOT a "butt doctor". Anyway I can understand why your father is too embarrased to tell you about the tree.

Just look on the tree and you will see "Mia Aiken-Aso" . She married a urologist by the name of "Dick Burns". She was a hooker and, for reasons that nobody in the family can figure out, Aiken-Aso never got pregnant by any of her clients. She quit when she got married and hyphenated her name to "Mia Aiken-Aso-Burns".

I will leave it to you to ask your father and see if he gives you any of the gory and sordid details of that story or if he denies the whole thing.

At any rate I will drop it now cause I don't believe your father ever wants you to find out.

Let this go as an example to everyone never to reveal too much information about yourself on the forums as you can now plainly see what can happen!
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Jul 17, 2023, 11:00 pm

Stanky Farter sure does sound like a proctologist.

To the OP: A few reasons to want a lotto jackpot win: (1) To become an institutional invester (2) To have bank employees treat you right when you walk into a bank (3) To walk out of the bank with a suitcase full of cash (4) To move money around willie nillie and generate a DDOS-flood of SARs (suspicious activity reports)