lotto

Lottery winners from Georgia are currently in the headlines - according to AP, they won some two hundred seventy five million dollars. The BBC notes the wife's assertion that:

"I'll be back in jeans and a T-shirt tomorrow," she said. "It is not going to change me at all. Him maybe, but not me - I'm too country."

Apparently the couple did not watch the drawing, and were alerted by their daughter to the win.

So, was she dancing nekkid in the millions today? People like this bug me; money changes people--end of story. I mean, won't they be surprised when next week daughter-dearest has them declared incompetent and gets power of attorney??

Ah, Nikki, your naked cynicism warms the cockles of my heart. I believe she may have been saying she would change, but in an Elvis Presley gold-plated-toilet kind of way, rather than a Clark Gable wealth and taste kind of way.

Now, now... let's not transplant the American legal system on to a Baltic state. The mere concept of a child declaring a couple of adults, especially their parents, as imcompetent and claiming power of attorney is an entirely American legalistic postulate.

In Georgia, however, the daughter would most likely resort to such old world methods as slowly poisoning her parents to death with a chemical, which resembles chemotherapy, and then simply claiming her inheritance.

Ah.. Money does change people... and the effects can actually be quite gruesome!

Ummm, Derek, that would be Georgia.  Not Georgia.  I see how you might be confused.  ;-)

Uh... Georgia the American state?

Duh!

That'll teach me to write a comment before reading the linked article...

[hiding in shame and embarassment under his table]