Comments | the_dark_snack: Writer's Block: Can you handle the truth?

the_dark_snack

Writer's Block: Can you handle the truth?

Sep 29, 2010 11:48

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Comments 6

ghostlycarrot September 29 2010, 16:11:34 UTC

Ha. Your answer to the writer's block question is genius and I totally agree. Everyone else's questions are all philosophical and profound; yours is just straight up awesome. Cheers.

nidoking September 29 2010, 16:34:07 UTC

The problem with that question is how you know the answer will be correct. If you then proceed to buy a ticket with those numbers, it's lottery fraud. Even if your knowledge is somehow on the level (and I can't imagine how), expect a thorough investigation into how the one lottery ticket you've ever bought managed to win the big prize.

beldar September 29 2010, 18:38:08 UTC

Actually from time to time one hears of someone buying a ticket out of the blue and it happens to win -- the odds in any particular drawing are exactly the same for a single number played by a first-timer as it is for one by someone who plays every day.
And we have bought Powerball tickets in the past, so it wouldn't be a first-time-ever.
The only problem is if she tells the lottery officials how she got the numbers, and the person who gave her the numbers knew in advance what they would be because the supposedly-random game is rigged. They may investigate a claim of "he told me these would be good" but if there's nothing provable, I don't think you can take hunches or psychic visions to court.

justjohn September 29 2010, 16:39:30 UTC

No time was specified for when the answer would arrive.

So the immediate reply to "What are tomorrow's winning lottery numbers (in my region)?" would be "Come back in a week for your answer."

veronica_rich September 29 2010, 23:20:19 UTC

You know anytime you answer one of these, your entire post shows up in the replies to that entry over at the Writer's Block site, right? :-D

I learned that the hard way ...

the_dark_snack September 30 2010, 00:17:16 UTC

Yeah, I know. Now others can know the details of squirrel auto-fellatio. Plus, I really don't care who knows what kind of fuck-up temp agencies are out there. At least I'm not trying to go to the police to get my info back from these guys like the last place.