Originally Posted by Chula Vista

But people do occasionally get struck and people do win Lottos, right.

We do a Lotto pool in work where each employee chips in for two tickets and everyone agrees that if any one ticket wins we all split the payout. Will it ever happen? Most likely not. But the miniscule chance of winning and all being able to retire on the same day is worth a couple of singles to everyone.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.