Nick Perry Memorial Bump.
Posted on 08/21/2004 8:44:12 AM PDT by Willie Green
In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy is told, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." Perhaps Dorothy should play the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Things are not what they have seemed. That midday lottery drawing, which is advertised for the three- and four-digit numbers as occurring at 1:35 p.m., actually happens at about 1:10.
Moreover, if you are a gambler who thinks that balls come down a tube -- as they do on the live TV broadcast in the evening -- then brace yourself for another surprise: The midday numbers are drawn randomly by a computer program, despite the impression left by an animated version of the drawing on the lottery Web site featuring balls and tubes.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
ping
Nick Perry Memorial Bump.
...and to think I was developing a system for predicting ping-pong ball movement inside of a wind tunnel.
Me too. I had calculated the probability of the effect of the different numbers painted on each ball as a variable of the position of the sun. Now this just ruins everything.
"That is especially true of the Pennsylvania Lottery, many of whose patrons have long enough memories to remember the rigged drawing of the daily number 666 in 1980."
What's this about? Who rigged the drawing, was it.....Satan?
I only rarely buy lotto tickets, but when I do I never use the
auto-pick ******s, I always pick them myself because in the back of my mind, I feel the machines that automatically pick your numbers are set to pick numbers that are least likely to win.
< /tinfoil >
OK, I don't know why it did that...
******s was supposed to be numbers and I know I typed it correctly.
Pittsburgh's "Bowling for Dollars" legend, Nick Perry.
He was also the host for the Pa. TV Lotto drawing when it first started.
He rigged the outcome by injecting the ping-pong balls with water.
No Nick Perry. They held the drawing for the PA Daily number at the studios of WTAE-TV Pittsburgh. Perry at the time was the host of a show called "Bowling for Dollars" and the drawing was held in an adjacent studio.
Perry filled the the #6 and #9 balls with paint so that they would come up and told his cronies and his cronies told their friends and people bet on a combination of 6's and 9's. That was the biggest payout on a PA daily number up to that time.
Wasn't there a movie with John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow about that?
Ohmigosh, that is just so corrupt! He should move to NJ, we need a new gov!
I don't know... I wouldn't think so...
I can't picture Travolta playing Nick Perry...
Now Danny DeVito would be perfect for the role!
But not Travolta... No, no way.
I think they fictionalized it, but there was a movie called "Lucky Numbers". In the movie Kudrow was the girl who pulled the numbers and Travolta was the local celebrity. The rigged it with glue on the balls though.
So if someone knew what the seed number was, couldn't they predict a high probability of winning numbers? Random generators have to have a programmed number to start with, don't they?
You can't win, if you don't have a ticket!!! I bought a 2 number ticket yesterday. I play once or twice a week, and forget about the tickets, for weeks at a time.
I once checked on a two-month old ticket, and found I had won $1575. I suspect they have since gotten it back!
And you can't win with a ticket. The odds for both are zero.
(It's a joke...oh never mind)
YES, there was.
The high point of the movie, for me anyways, was the death of Michael Moore (yes, THAT one) who played the part of Lisa' asthmatic cousin. I was there watching the screen, gonig YES! YES!
Truer words have seldom been spoken, my friend, and the response is always "But it was just a dollar!"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.