Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Stupid people rule the world Message-ID: <36200244@uiucdcs> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 11:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.36200244 Posted: Wed Oct 23 11:49:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 01:37:47 EST References: <943@loral.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:loral.UUCP:-94300:uiucdcs:36200244:000:716 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Oct 23 10:49:00 1985 A few years back New York had a lottery which, in addition to the instant lottery ticket, had a stub which had one of the letters 'N', 'E', 'W', 'Y', 'O', 'R' or 'K'. If you collected all 7 letters you won $5000. The local newspaper printed several letters from people who had 100 tickets and had never seen a single 'Y', and were complaining that the game was fixed, since they should have gotten all the letters a long time ago. Some people seemed to think that they should be able to buy 7 ($1) tickets and automatically get the $5000 prize. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "Given a choice, most people would rather not be attacked by horrid undersea slime creatures." "NO!" "Truth hurts."