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100 Cheese Workers Win $208M Lottery
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| 8/7/2006
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Posted on 08/07/2006 1:09:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: RockinRight
"After taxes, about $600,000."
Even with a very conservative, secure investment, this would return around $30,000.00 per year. Not exactly chump change for factory workers. Most of them will likely blow it on speedboats, cars, and plasma tv's though.
To: randog
what a friend we have in cheeses!That would make a nice verse to a song ...
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posted on
08/07/2006 1:52:47 PM PDT
by
Don Carlos
(Cuba Libre! Or in Reggae, "Drinking Rum and Coca Cola..")
To: Red Badger
"Gouda? No. Edam? No. Smoked Austrian? No. Japanese Sage Darby? No."
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posted on
08/07/2006 1:53:31 PM PDT
by
ushr435
To: Red Badger
I bet the manager of that shift is feeling bleu. Okay, that was no gouda. These must be grating on your nerves cause y'all seem feta up with the puns. I'm no munster, just having edam good time.
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posted on
08/07/2006 1:53:44 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: RegulatorCountry
Even with a very conservative, secure investment, this would return around $30,000.00 per year. Not exactly chump change for factory workers. Most of them will likely blow it on speedboats, cars, and plasma tv's though.Spoken like a true elitist.
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posted on
08/07/2006 1:58:59 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: Red Badger
"Behold the power of cheese."
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posted on
08/07/2006 1:59:49 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ushr435
"SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI UP!"
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:01:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: presidio9
"How many of them do you suppose showed up for work today?"
That'd be a good question...if it wasn't answered in the article:
"I think everybody pretty much decided we're going to pay our bills and we're going to take it from there," he told the newspaper. "We're all going to work tomorrow. We still have a job."
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:09:39 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: MineralMan
"I think everybody pretty much decided we're going to pay our bills and we're going to take it from there," he told the newspaper. "We're all going to work tomorrow. We still have a job."$2mm has a way of making a milk factory wage seem less than appealing.
But thanks for the nitpick MM. I know I can always count on you.
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:13:23 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
To: billhilly
"That will buy a lot of Cheez Its."
And brats! :)
50
posted on
08/07/2006 2:15:22 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Spktyr
51
posted on
08/07/2006 2:16:46 PM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: LibWhacker
They would have to be taked at something like 80 percent for them to only have that much.
They would have probably a little over a million each.
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:18:16 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: Diana in Wisconsin; All
"Iverson said the $208.6 million could be paid in 30 installments. But she said the winner or winners could choose a lump sum payment, which she said would be $95.8 million. Both those figures are before taxes, Iverson said."
Can somebody explain this to me?
The lump sum of the 208.6 million jackpot...BEFORE taxes are taken out...is only 95.8 million?
Does the lottery take out a huge chunk for "fees" or something?
This makes no sense.
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:21:27 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: rwfromkansas
Hi, RW! No, it's right. See #28 or #32.
To: rwfromkansas
To: presidio9
Well, since each of them is going to get less than $1Million, it's not all that much.
A clever person would invest what's left of that, after taxes, and let it ride until retirement. Then, life's going to be pretty darned good.
As for nitpicking...hey, it's what I'm good at.
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:25:19 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: jra
A million bucks reasonably investerd can yield $100k a year. I can do the beach on that!
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:27:02 PM PDT
by
pageonetoo
(You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
To: Red Badger
You can get five houses with that money in WI.
To: randog
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posted on
08/07/2006 2:28:06 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
"And brats! :)"
That fishing show host from your area and his wife are always pushing brats, so much so that I really want to try them. In the south we called them weenies, but I know they are not the same. They look good grilled.
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