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[lixdexia]

we email back and forth from our respective offices or text...not every day, but we e-chat regularly

well that's not a phone call is it

i have no such feelings about texting or e-mailing, but a phone call just feels...intrusive. with a phone call it it's like "hey, stop what you're doing RIGHT NOW, i have to talk about something!"

 

[lixdexia]

I've always found the main character to be kinda stupid. I mean, if I got tomorrows paper today, I'd just go play the lotto.

didn't he once? how else can he afford to do nothing but run around reading the paper all day?

 

[BlackLantern]

I could see where you're coming from there

 

[Mystirious]

I've always found the main character to be kinda stupid. I mean, if I got tomorrows paper today, I'd just go play the lotto.

i have no such feelings about texting or e-mailing, but a phone call just feels...intrusive. with a phone call it it's like "hey, stop what you're doing RIGHT NOW, i have to talk about something!"

Only time getting a call bothers me is when it is a telemaketer

 

[Manic]

I've always found the main character to be kinda stupid. I mean, if I got tomorrows paper today, I'd just go play the lotto.

didn't he once? how else can he afford to do nothing but run around reading the paper all day?

Didn't his friend try to use the newspaper for financial gain, and all of the facts changed the next day?

 

[Mystirious]

Didn't his friend try to use the newspaper for financial gain, and all of the facts changed the next day?

Using time travel or precogniion for financial gain never seems to work out

 

[Anubis]

If that happened, I wouldn't even bother then. You want me to risk my life, but I can't get some paper because of it? F**k that s**t.

 

[Mystirious]

If that happened, I wouldn't even bother then. You want me to risk my life, but I can't get some paper because of it? F**k that s**t.

Oh 'Nubs

 

[BlackLantern]

im with 'Nubs

 

[Mystirious]

im with 'Nubs

If I had a paper that told the future the first thing I would probably check is the lottery numbers

 

[Hush]

Who would'nt? Oh and i watched The Hunt For Red October for the first time today and it was awesome!

 

[Mystirious]

Who would'nt? Oh and i watched The Hunt For Red October for the first time today and it was awesome!

Great film

BlackLantern says the book is good so I am going to read that next

 

[lixdexia]

If I had a paper that told the future the first thing I would probably check is the lottery numbers

only the fist time, you win that more than once and folks start to check into it then all of a sudden POOF no more magic newspaper. you need to look at sports scores and then "gamble" on them. you'd have to lose every now and then to throw off the scent, but it's a much safer money from future advice prospect.

never been much of a tom clancy fan. started kiss the girls by pressman today, seems to be pretty creepy thus far.

 

[BlackLantern]

Who would'nt? Oh and i watched The Hunt For Red October for the first time today and it was awesome!

it is awesome

Great film

BlackLantern says the book is good so I am going to read that next

the book is damn good....the movie is probably one of the better adaptations of a novel I have ever seen

 

[Manic]

Depending on how much money is at stake, you might only need to win the lottery once.

 

[lixdexia]

well sure, but then you gotta know how to manage the money and spread it out over time, and the legal bs and a mountain of other headaches. the most i think i've ever seen a lottery pot be is 150 mil, but you're going to lose a significant chunk of that in taxes and it'll come in awkward unless you negotiate for a lower sum to come in as one payment, but with sports bets it's cash as you need it.

 

[Mystirious]

only the fist time, you win that more than once and folks start to check into it then all of a sudden POOF no more magic newspaper. you need to look at sports scores and then "gamble" on them. you'd have to lose every now and then to throw off the scent, but it's a much safer money from future advice prospect.

If I ever get a magic newspaper I will remember your advice Lix

the book is damn good....the movie is probably one of the better adaptations of a novel I have ever seen

I am going to start on the novel as soon I have finished re-readng Tipping the Velvet

 

[BlackLantern]

I am going to start on the novel as soon I have finished re-readng Tipping the Velvet

you know you've read that like 4 times and watched the mini series with Keely Hazel over and over

 

[Anubis]

well sure, but then you gotta know how to manage the money and spread it out over time, and the legal bs and a mountain of other headaches. the most i think i've ever seen a lottery pot be is 150 mil, but you're going to lose a significant chunk of that in taxes and it'll come in awkward unless you negotiate for a lower sum to come in as one payment, but with sports bets it's cash as you need it.

A significant chunk will be taken, but I can get by quite well with 65 million. I mean, how much do you even need? Besides, it would be better to do both. I'll save that kid from drowning after I make a stop at Off Track Betting and put down a 10,000 dollar bet on Santa's Nuts in the fifth race.

 

[BlackLantern]

Santa's Nuts breaks late, but he picks it up in the stretch

 

[Mystirious]

you know you've read that like 4 times and watched the mini series with Keely Hazel over and over

Six times

And yes I have. I have the mini series on DVD

Keely Hawes makes the world a better place

 

[BlackLantern]

Hawes...I always mess her name up

 

[lixdexia]

A significant chunk will be taken, but I can get by quite well with 65 million. I mean, how much do you even need? Besides, it would be better to do both. I'll save that kid from drowning after I make a stop at Off Track Betting and put down a 10,000 dollar bet on Santa's Nuts in the fifth race.

i'm advocating doing both.. you do the lottery once first then use the winnings from that for "gambling". you higher an accountant to make sure you have enough to live comfortably then take make some mad money at the track.

 

[Anubis]

And in between, see if you can stop a few accidental deaths. I'm not gonna stop any murders or terrible accidents. Seems like the sorta thing that could get you killed, and I can't spend my money if I'm dead.

 

[lixdexia]

i'd be batman, but like, white collar batman, breaking into the homes of inside traders and scaring the crap out of them.