Powerball

[LongTimeListener]

Winning this particular lottery is so far off the charts that my standard won-the-lottery fantasies aren't sufficient. Considering that the cash value on this thing's gonna be in the realm of $430 million, because I live in a no-income tax state my net would be close to $260 million. My wife and I could blow through our dream list entirely -- the beach house, the mountain house, the place in Italy -- and we'd have $250 million left over. We could then set up each of our three kids with a massive trust fund and still have $200 million in the bank. What would we do then?

The Doctorquant Center For Data Science In Sport at Clemson University.

 

[Chef2]

I would just officiate full-time. Buy a bus to take us to the games........have a bar in it that's fully stocked.........I'd let the school administrators know to take my game check, split it among the other guys.

 

[playthrough]

One thing I'm not sure I'd do is buy up houses like it was Monopoly. Instead a lot of Ritz-Carltons would soon know me very well, and just for giggles I'd sign up for their points program so I could get free rooms. Old habits die hard.

I went to a private middle/high school that is way over the top with fundraising and bombards me with solicitations. I appreciate the education I got so I'd write them a big check, but with the caveat that they never come back asking for more.

 

[doctorquant]

Fund a few chairs?

Yeah, I have thought about that ... but I might be tempted to go "in your eye puddin' pie" on those. Like endowing a Milton Friedman Professorship at Oberlin ... or a Hayek Center at Amherst or Swarthmore.

 

[linotype]

You're even less likely to win Powerball than you think

The odds may say that you're not going to win. But here are a few things that you're actually more likely to do:

• Have an IQ of 190 or greater (1 out of 107 million)
• Give birth to quadruplets, even without the help of fertility treatments - (1 in 729,000)
• Be killed by an asteroid strike (1 in 700,000)
• Being an American billionaire (1 in 575,097)
• Be killed by a lightning strike - (1 in 164,968)
• Die by drowning (1 in 1,113)
• Be struck by lightning, while drowning (1 in 183 million)

Indeed. I love math, so I did some calculations. The odds of winning are listed at 1 in 175,000,000.

You have the same chance of winning the Powerball as you do guessing the exact time a dog will sneeze (provided the dog sneezes only once) between now and July 2021. (There are 31.5 million seconds in a year, so 175 million seconds equals about 5 1/2 years.)

 

[Dick Whitman]

The Elijah Muhammed Endowed Chair of Religious Studies at Wheaton College.

 

[doctorquant]

The Elijah Muhammed Endowed Chair of Religious Studies at Wheaton College.

The Robert Reich Chair at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business ...

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[LongTimeListener]

I mean, if a mere $1 million was enough for "two chicks at the same time" in Office Space, you're really going to have to stretch if you win this.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I know that my old high school baseball program would be playing in the Cadillac of high school baseball stadiums.

I'd buy my entire high school and bulldoze it to the ground.

 

[JC]

This is excellent.

 

[YankeeFan]

This is excellent.

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