lady who won the 20mil on lotto isnt it ironic?

[bluedolphin]

what would u do with it?

[bernardo]

No, it is not ironic. The whole purpose of buying a lottery ticket is (1) buy the ticket (2) hope you win. Therefore there is no irony involved. If I had won �20 million, I would spend half of it on chocolate and the other half on employing a professional assassin to track down and kill the blank-tucking question-setters... Or perhaps I would invest it in order to provide a secure income.

[Robinia]

I wish the lady all the best! No amount is going to instantly magic her cancer away but I hope that she gets to enjoy her money. Being ill can be an expensive business - I'd have welcomed �20,000 when I had cancer. As for what I would do... all the usual really ... make sure all of my family are well taken care of, especially my brother who has Parkinsons disease... give lots to my local hospital....& buy a few manageable properties (not one big mansion) around the UK & maybe France so that I could just move around when I fancied a change! Er, have I overspent already?

[DOB]

Goddamn you Alanis Morrissette!

[5029]

DO you know what ironic means?

[saffstar]

I think it's brilliant that someone who would seem to need & deserve a lift has won it - I get really irritated that everytime a winner's details are published they always seem to be either electronically tagged toe-rags or millionnaires already! If I won �20 million my family & friends would be very well taken care of & I'd go on holiday for a year, then buy a house to do up and set up a donkey sanctuary (cos I love 'em). I'd also, of course, give a hefty donation to Bernardo's professional assasin fund.

[IggyB]

I think an amature assasin fund might be more fun!

[ali_alic]

On the Alanis Morrissette tangent. I think DOB is talking about the first line where a 98 yr old wins and dies the next day. However, don't you think its ironic that all the stuff she lists isn't actually ironic? "A traffic jam when you're already late" is not ironic. Now being in a traffic jam on your way to a meeting to discuss traffic management, now thats ironic. Maybe its just the American/Canadian interpretation.

[Casey]

I would buy my boyfriend a canary yellow Lambourgine Diablo, treat my family to a holiday of their choice, go out and shop until I drop, and pay some music company to make me famous!!!

[andytreble99]

staying on the Miss Morrisette tangent- she has ten thousand spoons when all she needs is a knife- thats not ironic, that, young lady, is just madness. i'd suggest someone who buys 10,000 spoons has some sort of compulsive disorder & should get it checked out. either that or its just stupidity, surely the spoons were positioned in the same section of the shop as the knives? it doesn't take much foresight to think if you have the need for 10,000 spoons the chances are you are keen on food & will at some point in your life need to use a knife. She's just an idiot if you ask me

[PaulYukochan]

I have bad news for moaners at Alanis Morisette! The dictionary (OXFORD ENGLISH) has more than one meaning for ironic, and bad luck is one of them i think.

[andytreble99]

i stand by my observation that to be in possession of 10,000 spoons but no knives is not bad luck, rather its idiocy.... or at the very least, bad planning. so unless the dictionary definition extends to include stupidity/unpreparedness, i feel vindicated that at least my Alanis-related moaning is vindicated

[DOB]

In reply to PaulYukochan, I ran a google search on irony & ironic and checked 3 of the 1st 4 site results did not mention irony as meaning bad luck. The sites were www.dictionary.com/ , www.m-w.com & dictionary.cambridge.org The 4th site was merely a dictionary search engine. So perhaps you could verify if the Oxford dictionary does actually say that irony means bad luck.

[flashpig]

I don't think there is anything wrong with the criminal winners of the lottery. It's luck and not a reward for anything. I mean - how do you DESERVE a lottery win, apart from picking the right numbers? At least it gets the criminals out of the cities and out into the country.

[flashpig]

First thing I would do if I won money and cancer is get a will made to divide up the cash between all of the people who will suddenly be my friends.

[Heraldeer]

I agree about the Alanis Morisette comments - a black fly in your Chardonnay is hardly unusual if you frequently drink it outside in areas where there are many flies.

[druiaghtagh]

I would spend 19 millionon wine, women and song and the rest i would waste!

[zeus]

i would change 10 million into 2 pence coins, then pay for helicopters to fly them above old trafford. Then let release them from a high altitude.