Hey!! My P.A. Friends!!
Roll up, roll up! Don't forget to buy your lottery ticket! P.A. LOTTERY Why rely on God when the lottery is right there in town!
We had our first lottery ever, here start about twelve years ago. Maybe less. I did buy a ticket for the first year or so, then got utterly cheesed off by it, and the govt taking a swipe of even that money paid for ticket, I packed it in. (The British govt has 12p a ticket) A ticket is a pound. And there was soo much controversy over where the money was spent, the govt money that is, that was allocated to charities. Arts seemed to be pretty high on priority, which is okay, I'm not against art, (I have some masterpiece drawings myself!! And join the dots too!) but when things like the police force, and the National Health service which is so under-funded that people are basically dying cos of it, and education, was put below arts, it got many people's goats.
On our British lottery TV programme on a Saturday nite, they used to have this woman "Mystic Meg" who was supposed to predict who was going to win. You know, someone drinking a cup of tea, with a black cat on their lap. (Sheesh!) She was a crack up. And a crack pot too! This pic below pretty much says it all of the "dear" lady!
but it was a nice little earner for her, and took her from obscurity to being a national celebrity. To she may be back in oblivion now, not sure.
We now have a mid-week lottery too. But the shows nor the game doesn't get air time in my vicinity! Oh! And they also at our newsagents, have these dumb National Lottery Scatchcards. They vary from a quid, (pound) to about five or ten pounds I tihnk. The prize is not so rich as the proper lottery tho. But I could've easily become more hooked on those than the big game. But gave those up too years ago!! And glad I did.
I was reading a few months ago, tho unfortnately the details escape me by enlarge right now. But how someone won the American lottery and gave it all to Ministries. And many of the churches/ministries were in a quandry as to if to accept the money given them. I recall many refused it. I think James Dobson was one who refused. But many people have gotten heavily in debt by playing this game. By spending money on it they couldn't afford. And it also gave way to a new "mental illness" (true) of people who were deluded and convicned they had won.
It really is more trouble than its worth in many, many respects.
Mystic Meg
