I think Hurley has managed to maybe release himself of the immediate guilt by fixating on the numbers as the culprets. Externalizing, instead of internalizing, unlike Sam Toomey did in Australia.
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
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DCJensen - Mar 05, 2005 1:16:48 pm PST #6995 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Lilty Cash - Mar 05, 2005 2:10:02 pm PST #6996 of 10000
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I have in my hand a printed $1 Powerball ticket with The Numbers. Drawing is tonight.
I really meant to do this.
Then again, I also meant to buy it and send it in an envelope to my ex to freak him out.
askye - Mar 05, 2005 5:18:35 pm PST #6997 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I just got this week's Entertainment Weekly, which has been out, I don't know if anyone mentioned there was a one page write up of Naveen Andrews. I totally didn't recognize his picture at first, his hair was straight and looked all blown out and slightly odd.
DCJensen - Mar 05, 2005 6:09:05 pm PST #6998 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I have in my hand a printed $1 Powerball ticket with The Numbers. Drawing is tonight.
I really meant to do this.
For the record, I did not win.
3/2/2005 3 10 18 46 48 8
Edain - Mar 05, 2005 6:19:06 pm PST #6999 of 10000
"Being hungover is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!" - T-Rex
Heh, The Numbers failed me as well.
6-12-20-21-24-43
evil jimi - Mar 05, 2005 7:00:38 pm PST #7000 of 10000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Right, but what I mean is, do U.S. lottery winners usually make the news in other countries?
Not every time but there have been US lottery winners shown on Aussie TV occasionally. I'd say under normal cirucumstances Hurley's win wouldn't have been shown but his grandad carking it made it exceptional circumstances, so it would've got a nod.
DCJensen - Mar 06, 2005 4:29:52 am PST #7001 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
le nubian - Mar 06, 2005 2:54:23 pm PST #7002 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hurley is spry. He may very well be a warrior.
Edain - Mar 06, 2005 3:18:53 pm PST #7003 of 10000
"Being hungover is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!" - T-Rex
I think the fact that he won such a large amount may be a factor as well in it making the news in other countries. I seem to remember them saying something about the total being unusually high because no one had won for a few weeks.
DCJensen - Mar 06, 2005 3:43:56 pm PST #7004 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
16 weeks
My figuring is this: He has $157 million, 1/2 of that is profit from investment ventures and their associated calamities. Or does it?
That makes his after-taxes take from the lottery to be approximately 78.5 million after taxes. However, that number can be off.
The financial advisor says he "doubled his investment." Hurley could have only invested, say, $15 million. There was nothing to suggest he invested his entire lottery winnings, nothing to say he didn't.
If it was only $15 million, and now he has $30 million more than his original Lottery winnings after taxes, that brings the total to $142 million after taxes. Since the Federal and state tax systems love large windfalls, I'm using the guestimate of 50% going to income taxes, fees and other taxes.
That would bring his winnings to around $284 million, certainly worth widespread coverage, add in the family tragedies and his arrest... Definate noteriety.
All of which, of course is a radical and off-the-cuff guesstimate.