Florida's "Lotto" jackpot has turned over 10 consecutive times, and the jackpot is now $85 million (over 20 years, minus taxes, if a single winner, etc.). Since the odds are supposedly about 23,000,000 to 1, it actually makes sense (even with the taxes, etc.) to pay their "moron tax," so I bought a bunch of hard-to-counterfeit pieces of paper tonight, and I can report that Lotto-paper-business was brisk and steady.
Last weekend, in a much-stranger transaction, J. S. G. Boggs bought the AR-15 I won (pic at http://www.direct-action.org in the "old raffle" section) with a very nice $5000 bill (which is NOT for sale at the moment!). Change (always a part of every Boggs transaction) included an 11.7 gram nugget from Goldengrams.com, some tenth oz gold coins, and a thousand bucks worth of e-gold (108.412258 grams). The receipt was the back side of an e-gold sticker. We staged the fun part of the transaction (looking over the rifle!) in a hotel room, and the rest of the transaction at the F.U.N. coin show (to avoid problems with security at the convention center :^) Anyone who knows me knows that I enjoy guns, and that AR-15 was really sweet, but I still think/hope I came out on top in the transaction. Who knows? It was fun, that's for sure! Presumably, someone may come along and buy gun, nuggets, e-gold, coins, and receipt from Boggs. They'll then have an interesting time trying to pry this Boggs bill from me... I have a low-res scan of the bill, I'll try to post it somewhere later. It has a picture of Boggs himself, done (for a Boggs Bill) by Thomas Raymond Hipschen, the artist who did the engravings for all of the larger portraits of presidents on the new US paper money that circulates alongside the old stuff currently. JMR --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
