[alphamale]

The winner of the "megamillions lottery" turns out to be seven hospital workers who entered as a group. After the tax bite, each gets about $20 million. I've always gotten a laugh out of lotteries - the odds of winning were something like 1 out of 160,000,000. Like another irrational activity - voting. How many elections were decide by one vote? Some guy wrote a book about this - forget the name - about the widespread behavior of people based on their misperception of, or ignoring of, probabilities. Lotteries are basically a voluntary regressive tax.