Posts Tagged ‘EuroMillions’

EuroMillions Lottery Winners Fulfill Political Dream

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

When asked what we’d do with a lottery winning, most of us would answer things like: Buy a house, buy a new car, donate to charity or go on a world cruise. However, the biggest EuroMillions lottery winners in the history of the jackpot, Colin and Chris Weir decided that they wanted to make a political impact with their windfall. The pair, who bagged themselves a massive GBP 161 MILLLION, have decided to donate a cool one million to their favorite political party – the SNP. The couple are strong supporters of Scottish independence, and Chris even stood for the party back in 1987. The money will be used to push the cause of independence and is the largest single donation made to the political party in its nearly 80 year history. Now that’s what’s you call wielding political power!

On the subject of politics, George Bush Jnr is the politician who probably inspired the most jokes in history. Here’s an example, courtesy of About.com:

The Bush Stamp

The Postal Service created a stamp with a picture of President Bush. The stamp was not sticking to envelopes. This enraged the President, who demanded a full investigation.

After a month of testing, a special Presidential commission presented the following findings:

1) The stamp is in perfect order.

2) There is nothing wrong with the applied adhesive.

3) People are spitting on the wrong side.

 

Finally… £113 million Lottery Claimed

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

I’ve had a rather nail-biting week, watching the media as day after day goes by without anyone claiming the £113 million EuroMillions lottery that was won almost a fortnight ago. Camelot, the national lottery operator in the UK, said that as many as 1,000 people came forward claiming that THEY were the winners – even though they didn’t have the winning ticket. One old woman even claimed that her husband had lost the ticket but she had ‘jotted down the numbers in her notebook’ before buying it and therefore she could prove that she was the winner. (Um, no). So I was really relieved to hear that FINALLY, a winner has stepped forward to claim the prize and Camelot has confirmed that this is the real winner. He or she prefers to remain anonymous at this time but are missing out on the glory of bragging in public that they are now richer than Phil Collins and Rod Stewart …

Here is a strange but true lottery story to end off with:

An 86 year old Canadian woman dreamed that she had won the lottery and was so convinced that she would win that she went out the next morning and bought a lottery ticket. ‘Just in case’, she bought ANOTHER ticket and played the same numbers. Amazingly, the numbers were in fact the winning ones for that week and the pot was for $24 million. Having two tickets on the same numbers saw Mary Wollens take home two thirds of the prize – a whopping $16 million!