Who wants to be a Millionaire?
Maybach 57S
This weeks Euromillions is €88 Million! or A$132,132,000. Woah baby...beaucoup fric! You wanna be in it to win it? Join my syndicate. Be quick. The draw is this Friday night. Go here to play for a lousy ten shekels or something - yespleaseiwannatellthebosstogofuckhimself.com It's a cheesey-looking site - but who cares as long as the money is good. Read all the crap they bombard you with if you like but the quickest and easiest way to play is to click the "JOIN NOW" button, tick to play Euromillions and/or U.K. Lotto (I'm going for both) fill in your credit card details and voila! If you don't want to do that and still want to play you can pay via ClicktoPay or MoneyBookers. And if you're worried about putting in your home phone number, like they ask, put in a bodgie. They're gonna email you anyway.
They reckon the syndicate increases your chances of winning the Euromillions (€88 Mill this Friday night) by 3600 times. Whatever. I'd be happy to win a thousand bucks, quite honestly.
Here's how they do it: "If you’ve played the EuroMillions game normally on your own or in a conventional syndicate before, you're probably thinking: "Hold on a minute! You don’t play EuroMillions with just the five numbers from 1 to 50, you play with the five numbers plus two Lucky Star numbers picked from a separate set of 1 to 9, as well"...
And you'd be right.
But that's the really great thing about the e-Lottery... effectively, you only need to play with just the 5 numbers. All because those numbers — 'Main’ numbers as we call them — are combined with all permutations of the 9 Lucky Star numbers in a strict mathematical pattern so you know before every draw that you’re going to match both Lucky Star numbers in every draw.
And with two less numbers than normal to have to match, not only will you have a 3,600 per cent greater chance of scooping the jackpot, your chances of winning any prize jump to only 1 in 4...
In fact, you qualify for a prize even when you match just 1 Main number!
How have we arrived at those odds?
Well, we could show you the computations, but for simplicity, best just to say that the figures aren’t ours; we consulted a university Professor of Mathematics to work them out for us when developing the system." More details on the cheesey site.
p.p.s. See the car on the left - the Maybach57S? List price in the U.K. is £289,090. Top speed 171 mph. 0-62mph in 5 sec. V12 engine. You don't wanna know the fuel consumption. OR for the same dosh you can buy a Rolls-Royce Phantom with £32,490 to spare. OR four new Mercedes-Benz S500 limousines. OR twenty-nine Routemaster buses. OR an eighth share in a secondhand Lear Jet. OR 365,936 Mars Bars (Thanks Telegraph Motoring).
Malcolm Lambe
Loser! From today's The Sydney Morning Herald - "Winning $24m lottery ticket now worth zilch
The holder of a British lottery ticket worth nearly £10 million ($24 million) has lost it all after the six-month deadline for claiming the winnings expired.
He or she had until 5.30pm on Monday (4.30am on Tuesday AEDT) to collect, or forfeit the entire amount.
Most likely, the unlucky winner, from Doncaster in South Yorkshire in northern England, simply forgot to check the ticket, bought on July 6 last year, which would have made him or her £9,476,995 richer.
According to lottery rules, if winners fail to recoup their bounty within six months, the money is automatically given to a charitable organisation.
Had the ticket holder placed his or her windfall into a savings account immediately, a British newspaper calculated, an extra £300,000 in interest would have accrued.
The largest unclaimed lottery prize in Britain to date has been £7 million.
But in the 11-year history of the lottery, only 23 winning tickets with a value of £1 million or more have been left unclaimed."
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it makes me wee a little when I think of the size of the euromillions jackpot, do you remember when the irish lady won the 50 million squids?
good luck, I hope you get a result!
Money does not!
Ya oddball.