BS: I'll still talk with the common people.

Subject: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:08 AM

"Attn:Winner,
We wish to congratulate you of the result of the STAATO NL Lottery (international program) balloting sweepstakes held 2007.
You won ($1,500,000.00) (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) with the following winning details: REF No: 8163 ER 8941;;; BATCH No:
543203545-NL/2007 ;; TICKET No:PP 4802 /9206-03;;; SERIAL No: 06234 LUCKY No: 8-22-90. You are advised to send us your Full Name,Contact Telephone Numbers (Home,Office,Mobile and also your Fax Number)and also include your winning informations.CONTACT PERSON:Mr Andrew Woolley.

Contact Address: [e-mail]
                  Tel: [phone]
                  Fax: [phone]
Congratulations!!!"
Mr.Haris Van.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:13 AM

I received that a few hours ago via e-mail and I am THRILLED! I have instructed Mr Andrew Woolley to leave the cash (small denomination unmarked bills) in front of the Museum of Natural History in New York City in a big plastic bag (I'm thinking ahead, because the money will get heavy if it rains). FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Janie
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:20 AM

Damn! Some people have all the luck.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:51 AM

If you have any spare change you could pay off my mortgage. . .

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Gurney
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:51 AM

I get similar letters regularly, all from Nigeria.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: gnu
Date: 15 May 07 - 06:36 AM

I asked for mine in Canadian Tire money. Large denomination bills.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: bobad
Date: 15 May 07 - 07:48 AM

"Buddy, can you spare a dime?"

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: John Hardly
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:26 AM

Almost exactly the same thing happened to me.

In my case, I bought one of those $1 Powerball lottery tickets one day. The next day, after they'd drawn all the numbers, I found that my ticket matched all six of them.

Well, like any twenty-first century, internet savy person... ...I know a scam when I see one. I tore up my ticket.

It's just like your mother always told you. "When something seems too good to be true, it probably is."

close call though.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Amos
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:43 AM

LOL, John.

In my dreams....



A

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:47 AM

I won some money in a UK lottery a couple years or more ago, but I sent it to Khandu. He never thanked me, either.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 May 07 - 10:58 AM

Only $1.5 mil? The lousy pikers!! The last one I got from Lagos offered me $3 mil, in gold! Seems some prospector deposited it in a safe deposit box a while back, and the 100-year prepaid box fee had just expired.....

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:22 AM

Here is a new one, to me.

From 'Better Homes & Gardens'. Right.

One of those 'Official Notice' delivery letters, the same kind the IRS uses.

"We are trying to reach you regarding your $2,100.000.00 win the sweepstakes ID, etc..."

I came this close- Expiration date: May 10.

Juneau Alaska mail is slow.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:26 AM

Someday someone is going to receive a genuine communication telling them they've won something, and it'll end up in the bin...

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:47 AM

I actually did have the winning six Lottery Numbers - 5 numbers + the supplementary. I called my family delirious with glee - all those paid mortgages and college tuitions. Went to the store where I bought the ticket and told Mr. Kim of my luck.

He was almost in tears when he had to tell me that they had changed the rules two weeks earlier. Five numbers plus the supplementary no longer won first prize. I ended up with a couple of thousand but not the multi-millions the day started out with.

On the other hand, the ex-king of some small African country is transferring millions into my bank account AS WE SPEAK. Poor guy needed a reliable friend to handle the transaction and I was recommended.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:15 PM

We got something similar the other day. Apparently, they kindly bought us a ticket and once we've given them our bank account (and every other) details they will take a small percentage before they pay in the money.

It's sad really because some people do fall for it.

A few years ago a friend of mine came back from holiday to find she'd won a couple of thousand pounds on the Pools. The cheque was in an envelope that looked like junk mail and she said that she very nearly tore it up without opening it.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:45 PM

lol, Sinsull. I do wish you good fortune!

What is amazing is how often one forgets all the contests and lotteries one entered. For instance, sweepstakes. It somehow slipped my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: John Hardly
Date: 15 May 07 - 12:54 PM

Why would anyone sweep steaks instead of grill them?

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:02 PM

The first time I spent a buck on a Washington State lottery ticket (which I've done maybe three times in the past umpteen years), I won!

Not the multi-megabuck main prize, but my ticket matched a couple of numbers in the right sequence and I won $10.00. Okay, I'll take it.

Don Firth

P. S. Ed McMahon still owes me ten million dollars at least! He kept sending me these letters saying that I had won, but he never has sent me the money. . . .

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:10 PM

Forget steaks. You may already be a wiener.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:13 PM

Hot Dog!

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:28 PM

Flip me! Why is it always some other flippin' goof who wins the big prizes? Look, man...I got an idea how that flippin' monney can be invested, eh? I figger you got yer own Leer Jet now, right? I mean, you must have one, right? So fly to Blind River, man. Wait for me there. Ask fer Don McBride, my brother. He will put you up whiles you wait. But DON'T tell him about the money! Don't listen to NONE of his flippin' skeems becoz he lies like a rug! I will be home soon and we can figger out the best ways to use yer money so that everything works out great, eh? Trust me.

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: gnu
Date: 15 May 07 - 03:13 PM

Atlantic Lotto has a game called PRO.LINE. You pick the outcomes of three to five sports events at the odds listed and your bet is multiplied by the odds of each if all your picks are correct.

A group of Albertans put a big sum of money together, flew to Halifax, and bought a whack of tickets... it was a lock. they had winning tickets for millions. Unfortunately, for them, they didn't read the rules regarding pool size, number of winners, and payout restrictions. Long walk home.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 May 07 - 03:52 PM

"Ah ! Charlie, what was it that first attracted you to millionaire singer/songwriter Bruce Murdoch.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:48 PM

Fergit that shit. The sonuvabitch didn't show up with the money. I am starting to think it was one of those Nigerian things.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:54 PM

This means that Shane will once again be disappointed...

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 07 - 08:38 PM

My brother was sitting at work one day when he got a call from "Guns" magazine (which he never reads) telling him that he'd won their monthly contest and he was the proud owner of a pair of Ruger Mk II pistols.

Okay........turns out he enters contests and mailed in an entry form from a magazine he'd found in a doctor or dentist's waiting room.

He arranged for the pistols to be shipped to a licensed dealer, had the requisite pictures tooken, and sold the pistols to help pay off the concrete bill for his new garage floor. Working, as he was at the time, for the State Police, he felt no need for more guns.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 07 - 10:41 PM

Who was buried in the concrete?

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 10:53 PM

The name Jimmy Hoffa mean anything to you?

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 May 07 - 10:55 PM

Memory shot: My first (and brief) boyfriend told me one day that he'd had his picture 'tooken'.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Peace
Date: 15 May 07 - 10:58 PM

What were it tooken with?

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:03 PM

Sounds like what Shane would say.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 07 - 11:08 PM

Well, it was in Illinois, and the State Cops don't pay really well, and the Guys in Chicago sometimes has certain items to dispose of....

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 May 07 - 12:07 AM

My boyfriend was a Virginian.

Years later, his brother told me that Al had a learning disability, of which I was not aware, nor, no doubt, would I have understood it.

He did grow up to be a most handsome man. After all these years still good to look at.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Mickey191
Date: 16 May 07 - 02:20 PM

I love it when groups win & share. About a year ago a work crew from a meat packing plant won many, many millions. Think there were about 11 or 12 involved. All level headed, nice and with a work ethic. They kept mum & first went to a _good_ lawyer for instructions on how to proceed.

They kept their jobs until the company could retrain others to take their place. Some even stayed on the job permanently.

On the other hand, a homeless man won & spent it all giving & being taken. Now living in his brand new truck! Broke!

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 16 May 07 - 02:38 PM

OK, was it funny to anyone else that the one who made the "Wiener" comment is named Beans?????

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 May 07 - 02:47 PM

Or that the one drawing attention to the fact is named "Frank"?

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 07 - 02:58 PM

ARE there any common people here?

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: frogprince
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:02 PM

Hey, I've been called something low and common more than once...

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:02 PM

Furter Love of mike !!

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 07 - 04:16 PM

Did I ever mention that I once won the Publishers' Clearinghouse contest?

Yes, really. I did. Truly.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 May 07 - 04:17 PM

I think I got a dollar from them, once.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: GUEST,Big Brother Don
Date: 16 May 07 - 04:47 PM

Yeah, man, but will you still DRINK with the common people?

Don't lissen to the little brother, eh? He lies like a rug. He just wants your money to buy beer and smokes and so he can lay around all day flippin' the dog.

- Don McBride

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: frogprince
Date: 16 May 07 - 06:09 PM

We got one really odd mailing from a catalog company several years ago. It guaranteed we were "winners". I skimmed the list of at least 5 prize levels. Even the 5th prize was at least something like a big
TV. I was about stumped for a while; this was an actual established business, and I couldn't figure out how they thought they could get away with what looked like such blatant fraud.
Finally I looked at the prize list again, more carefully. Almost everyone was to receive the third prize; it was a chip of polished rock, worth maybe as much as the mini-ziplock-bag it came in.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 07 - 06:40 PM

Yup. Fifty US dollars for being among the first 300 entrants from Indiana or something like that. Since my wife had sent the entry in, she got the winnings.

Subject: RE: BS: I'll still talk with the common people.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 18 May 07 - 02:15 PM

BeardedBruce,
   Believe it or not, that didn't occur to me!!! Cracked me up though....

Frank