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Originally posted by <Dickie Ticker>:
What is the smart thing to do? And why?
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Having watched the original US/Harvey Mandel version a few times (in its first week it was on every evening so it was hard to avoid it) it was patently obvious that if a contestant had an offer of the order of $125,000 and declined the deal it was almost certain that he/she would lose out.
Pretty mindless entertainment in fact.
But typical of the fare we are offerred nowadays.
Last year we actually had to suffer two casinos for the sake of enjoying some Lightfoot music.
At the first there was no slots that accepted coins but the second had quarter slots. I set myself a limit of losing $5.00 and soon had a choice of two vacant machines. Although I ended up somewhat lucky and about $10.00 better off
I was not best pleased when an opportunist lady settled into the other vacant seat next to me and within about 5 minutes was receiving a cheque for $2500.
John Fowles
I could have done with that right then as I was at the time still serious about spending about that sum on a new Ferrari:-
Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi AMD Turion 64 ML-37 (1mb L2 Cache, 2.0GHz)
(In the end I settled for a vastly cheaper (£76.00 on
http://www.ebay.co.uk) and
more satisfying used HP Jornada 820 "handheld/micro notebook
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[ April 12, 2006, 13:44: Message edited by: johnfowles ]