Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[el-remmen]

I knew someone was gonna make that joke as soon as I hit submit, and cringed, but at least it was @Snarf Zagyg, so it was halfway decent (but only halfway).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

OK, assuming that someone here at ENWorld will be winning the $1.7 billion Powerball lottery this weekend (that's how probabilities work, right?), what do you do with the money?

 

[CleverNickName]

OK, assuming that someone here at ENWorld will be winning the $1.7 billion Powerball lottery this weekend (that's how probabilities work, right?), what do you do with the money?

I'd have to check my account balance first to be sure, but I think I could finally pay off my student loans.

 

[gnarlygninja]

While the specifics of it would be different now, the answer I came up with in college is still probably what I'd do: tell absolutely no one that I won, but my friends and family would suddenly find a lot of anonymous donations to support their dreams. Also, I'd buy an island.

 

[Scribe]

Upon further review.

 

[billd91]

Every once in a while you'll see someone writing about two things they think are clearly different, but to other people, those differences are so minimal that are fundamentally the same thing. My guess is that the differences are a lot bigger in that person's head because of some unwritten thing the rest of us can't see and they can't easily explain. But for the most part, I think, in those situations the emperor's just got no freakin' clothes.

 

[payn]

House Kurita dog tags as a gift for folks who attend my Battletech Event in December.

KSAGG VI

tabletop.events

 

[el-remmen]

OK, assuming that someone here at ENWorld will be winning the $1.7 billion Powerball lottery this weekend (that's how probabilities work, right?), what do you do with the money?

I'd give every registered user on ENworld (approximately) $8500 (unless they are on my ignore list).

 

[Ryujin]

OK, assuming that someone here at ENWorld will be winning the $1.7 billion Powerball lottery this weekend (that's how probabilities work, right?), what do you do with the money?

Give away $1.690B and retire to a quiet little compound in the woods, with a helipad for one of those drone cars.

 

[Thomas Shey]

With some stuff- at least down here- you really do need to get HOA approval first because the contractors won’t start the job without clearance. That was the case with our fence replacement.

Which shouldn't be a thing, IMO.

Unfortunately for us in that case, the combination of getting that clearance and being good neighbors by pushing the job back a month. They had a visitor from the UK who was staying for 3-4 weeks, and we didn’t want to sour that with the noise of a work crew. But unbeknownst to us, that changed starting time meant that the city’s new building code for fences had changed. The contractor had to get new permits and actually alter the construction plan & techniques.

Well, local government moving targets, especially on anything that takes a while are a whole different problem.