Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: The episode begins with the four boys watching a news report about a guy who won the lottery and then immediately had his life go to hell. Leonard mentions that statistically, *most* lottery winners experience such things, and often wind up further in debt ....
Comment preview: You don't pull a prank like this on a well-liked co-worker... *Actress Shannen Doherty once quit her hit TV series Charmed after she was duped into thinking she won the lottery.* *She recalls, Every once and while when the lotto was really big, the cast w ....
Comment preview: A lady at work told me this story of a guy at her previous employment. One day he gets a call from his hysterical wife. They had won the lottery. She checked the numbers over and over, and they got each one of them. They won, they won! He is ecstatic and p ....
Comment preview: The people who can manage 1.3 million properly aren't playing the lottery. Edit: OK, people, yes, this is a *generalization*. Anyone can play the lottery including people who do it for "entertainment" but the fact of the matter is that studies show lotteri ....
Comment preview: Variance is such a beautiful, miserable thing. On 1 hand you have the Kings. In 28 seasons in Sacramento we have made the playoffs 8 times. We got royally fucked in the 2002 WCF and should have won a Championship. We have never made the finals, and we have ....
Comment preview: Oliver Swanick from Fallout: New Vegas. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Oliver_Swanick Near the beginning of New Vegas, I show up in Nipton and this guy is screaming about how he won the lottery. I start thinking to myself that maybe if I kill him and get th ....
Comment preview: For those who can't get around paywall: "For about 100 people planning to get their hands on Goose Island s coveted Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout next month, the beer will remain a bit rarer than they d hoped. Goose Island said Thursday that someone who ....
Comment preview: I think that passing thought is kind of like fantasizing about winning the lottery. You know it's potentially a real thing, that for some people it does happen. You also know the odds, and that buying lottery tickets, for 99.99999% of people is just throw ....
Comment preview: CUE LAUGH TRACK *Just then, PENNY comes walking into the room.* **PENNY:** Hey, guys, what's everyone laughing about? **LEONARD:** Oh, oh, Howard! Tell Penny! *HOWARD turns to PENNY with a smug look.* **HOWARD:** Okay, so, Sheldon won the lottery, right? * ....
Comment preview: >new to SA:MP >join most popular role playing server >start out as truck driver delivering freight around town >constantly get picked on by users >get killed and have my truck/trailer stolen right before I am able to deliver my freight and g ....
Comment preview: I don't know why people stay at a job they don't like.. If I won the lottery I would give my boss as much time he needs to replace me which would probably be at least a few months (I would have to train someone on our equipment and setup, etc). I would how ....
Comment preview: Have you ever wondered what happens to all the lottery winners? Wealth, particularly spent frivolously has a tendency to lead to some measure of fame in our society. So where are they in the public eye? If we can dedicate hours of our lives every week to w ....
Comment preview: Got laid off from my 4th tech support job in 3 years out of Tech school. I was on my 5th month of unemployment when out of the blue a guy I had met at my second tech support job and was friends with but lost contact with called me, having found my informat ....
Comment preview: "I m a big movie fan. I m very, very confused why so many people love the movie Scarface though. I m not saying it s a bad movie. It is, but that s not my point. It s just that, like, I ve seen tons of people in the past couple years who wear knee long Sca ....
Comment preview: *I m a big movie fan. I m very, very confused why so many people love the movie Scarface though. I m not saying it s a bad movie. It is, but that s not my point.* *It s just that, like, I ve seen tons of people in the past couple years who wear knee long S ....
Comment preview: I was watching an episode of "LOST" in the lobby of a hotel, and a random woman sat down nearby to watch the episode with me. From the questions she asked, it was clear to me that she was a casual watcher of the show...not a rabid fan like I was at the ti ....
Comment preview: "I m a big movie fan. I m very, very confused why so many people love the movie Scarface though. I m not saying it s a bad movie. It is, but that s not my point. It s just that, like, I ve seen tons of people in the past couple years who wear knee long Sca ....
Comment preview: This probably won't happen, but I would tell them to put ALL of it towards retirement if your dad is serious about retiring in 10 years. $5000 in a Roth IRA, then max out the 401k. If there's still some leftover, continue putting $5000 in the Roth IRA ever ....
Comment preview: For whenever this inevitably hits /r/all (618 comments in 4 minutes so its pretty obvious it will), here's what this means for people who don't follow hockey: In the NHL the draft is done by a lottery, every team that doesn't make the playoffs has an incre ....
Comment preview: that lady winning $310m in the lottery reminded me of an idea I had if I won the lottery (I'm talkin like hundreds of millions) make a 10 track mixtape, maybe 14 tracks. * Clams Casino * Mike Will Made It * HudMo * Just Blaze * The Runners * Scott Storch * ....
Comment preview: Think about it this way: 1. We have 8 billion people effectively playing the "lottery o' life roulette" every day. 2. About 400 million of them got lucky and won the lottery once, and ended up with at least one hundred thousand dollars. 3. ~12 million of t ....
Comment preview: Out of context, this is an incredibly normal story, but it suddenly gets very creepy after a few months. One night I went out with a friend near Liverpool St, London. We were in a pub and I wanted to draw more money out so we could get more drinks. I left ....
Comment preview: From [here]( http://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/332v5s/edmonton_has_won_the_draft_lottery/cqgzwl3): For whenever this inevitably hits /r/all (618 comments in 4 minutes so its pretty obvious it will), here's what this means for people who don't follow ....
Comment preview: People have been hounding me all day saying that I won the lottery. I think it s cool and all but honestly I m just happy to be off work. Pilar keeps yelling at me, she says I ve got to go down the station and claim it but I really just want to go shopping ....
Comment preview: There's this guy, Lenny. He's a good guy. He goes to temple every week and lives a clean life, treats everyone well, but he's never been very successful. He just barely manages to get by. So he prays to god, "Lord, I've been a good man, and I'm starting to ....
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