What do you have!

rwest · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 02:03pm

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Originally Posted by youngump

Buying a ticket doesn't significantly change your odds of winning.

You go from the probability of hitting 18 holes in one to the probability of hitting 18 holes in one minus .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001.

MD Longhorn · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 02:22pm

If you make a special trip to buy a lottery ticket, your odds (on average) are approximately 3 times greater that you will die in a car accident on the way to get your ticket (or back) than you are of winning the lottery.

IRISHMAFIA · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:39pm

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Originally Posted by mbcrowder

If you make a special trip to buy a lottery ticket, your odds (on average) are approximately 3 times greater that you will die in a car accident on the way to get your ticket (or back) than you are of winning the lottery.

Where did you get your numbers? Those from TX don't count 'cause y'all drive like cowhands late for happy hour.

MD Longhorn · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:49pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Where did you get your numbers? Those from TX don't count 'cause y'all drive like cowhands late for happy hour.

LOL.

If Texans all drove fast, there'd be no problems. Like in Boston - they all drive fast and the lane markers are just suggestions, but everyone knows it and it's not a problem. In Miami - they all drive like they are searching the glovebox for their Geritol and Viagra, but everyone knows it and it's not a problem.

In Texas, we get both - fast drivers with no regard for lanes, slow drivers confused and lost, and throw in a bunch of motorcycles weaving in and out, and the new flock of texting teens... it's a mess.

But the numbers were national, and came from a column I read at least 10 years ago. Before the internet was as big, so I have to change the cliche - but they can't put it in the paper if it isn't true.

IRISHMAFIA · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 05:12pm

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Originally Posted by mbcrowder

In Texas, we get both - fast drivers with no regard for lanes, slow drivers confused and lost, and throw in a bunch of motorcycles weaving in and out, and the new flock of texting teens... it's a mess.

No regard for lanes? Hell, they pass you on the right when you ARE ine right lane and there is no shoulder.

But they're real careful there because there is a fine if you run over a sign. After all, JoeBob and JimmyJack need them for target practice on their way home from the Friday Night HS football game.