Ironmule, I've calculated that my odds of winning the lottery are not significantly improved by buying a ticket. That is to say, I'm about as likely to find or be given a winning ticket as I am to buy one.

My lucky number has always been 13. It has something to do with my birthday being 1/12 (or 12/1 for you unAmericans) and 1 + 12 = 13, all the digits of my birthday (1/12/54) adding up to 13, and the first letter of my name being the 13th letter of the alphabet. Plus I just liked being ornery. When I was in the National Spelling Bee at age 12, I came in 13th. Whereupon my dad said to me, "Too bad your lucky number wasn't 1!"

Aloha,
Mark