Hey, tonight’s the night of the lottery drawing, isn’t it? What’s it up to? Eh, doesn’t matter.
You know, some people don’t play the lottery until it gets up to $200-million or more. I suppose they don’t want to waste their time on a measly $10-million chump change, right?
Still, if you played the lottery, you’ll be watching the drawing to see if you won, right? Good luck with that.
Now for the nightly IMAO lottery. It’s Saturday Night Open Thread! Yay! That means it’s totally random what you’ll read here, because other readers, some funnier than you, will type something on to their computer machine and it’ll magically appear here for you to laugh at. Then others will type something, maybe on the same topic, maybe on some other topic, and it’ll be funny, and everyone will laugh. Then you get to type something and maybe they’ll laugh at it. Maybe they’ll laugh at what you wrote. Who knows? Better odds than the lottery.
So, tell a joke, post a link, say what’s on your mind.
Who wants to start?
LIVE from IMAO, it’s Saturday night!
(I didn’t actualliy want to be first, but I came in the house and made the mistake of looking at this BLOG to see if Basil and DamnCat were here already.)
Here’s a lottery story:
Walking down Main Street this week, I saw a $20 scratch ticket on the sidewalk. On an impulse, I picked it up.
Jumping to the end: there was no payoff.
But the person who threw it away couldn’t have known that. He or she hadn’t understood the rules on the card. It was Bingo-themed. There were at least six more spots that the person could have scratched off, but failed to.
What’s the moral? I ended up one number away from a “Triple-Value” $50,000 row (i.e., $150,000) because of this person’s carelessness, while he or she was two numbers away. I consider that a morale boost, since he or she fronted all the investment. Or, you could look at it this way: we both lost.
While statisticians are fond of calculating the odds of purchasing a winning lottery ticket, I’ve never seen a calculation of the odds of finding a winning ticket!
And now for something completely different… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IDdP-Q97v4
Hmm. So how come this video is able to relate in about 3 minutes, 47 seconds what it would have taken a movie two hours to relate?
Someone is relying way too much on dramatic sequences, camera angles, CGI, and close-ups rather than plot.
How many Liberals does it take to screw in a light bulb?
They won’t fit in a light bulb, will they?
I KNEW you’d read it that way!
I suppose if the bulb was made (i.e., subsidized) by Congress, they’d fit.
Liberals only fit into dim bulbs.
How many Liberals does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One. But the light bulb has to WANT to be screwed by a Liberal.
Some may find this interesting………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iKXkWUTRM
I did.
If I could own any 6 pieces of movie memorabilia or props?
They’d be . . . . let’s see . . .
1. The snow globe from Citizen Kane
2. No, wait: Charlie Chaplin’s cane
3. And shoes or hat
4. Buster Keaton’s hat
5. Maybe Animal House’s Emil Faber head
6. One of those Maltese Falcons would be nice. But it’d have to be authentic.
This is for math, physics and engineering NERDS who have strange hobbies. It’s a PDF written by Netherlands physicist, Erik Verlinde. It details a new, truly revolutionary theory of gravity:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.0785.pdf
(There are more links I could provide from him if anyone is interested. You never know what you’re going to find in Basil’s Open Threads!)
A man goes up to the bartender and says “I need a round for my table. 3 beers, a whisky, a vodka tonic and 2 red wines.”
The bartender say “Alright, would you like tray?”
The man says “No thanks, I have enough to carry as it is.”
You can tell me, has FrnakJ decided to do a whole blog based on In My World?
If not, I think he may have a copyright violation suit.
Sooo…as it turns out, when you listen to the words of the song, the Brain was allways a Democrat…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUqwaORfbU