Xyz is a lucky guy. He'll tell you so himself. But he has had little luck, so
far, in trying to cash in on his magic.
He calls it the zyx.
Either way, it's the picture of optimism. But so is xyz, 33, a Washington D.C.
resident who emigrated from Romania in 1988.
Romania is "the best country in the world," he said with pride, "but I was
dreaming about the U.S. since I was in high school because of the Radio Free
Europe. They lured me here. I'm a gambler."
His gamble paid an unexpected dividend eight years later, when xyz hit the
Lottery's Buckeye 5 jackpot for $100,000.
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"So I'm a double jackpot winner. And how many double jackpot winners you think
are on the planet?"
He also won a measure of fame, if no additional compensation, by appearing in a
Lottery TV commercial that ran for five years. And he kept on playing, and
winning, the lottery.
"Not jackpots, but smaller ones," he said. "So everybody seems to know me. Not
only remember seeing me, but also told me that I have a xyz."
xyz decided he might be on to something. He wasn't able to parlay his status as
a lottery winner into other commercial endorsements - "I couldn't make a penny"
- so he literally went to the drawing board and blah-blah xyz.
So far, however, he hasn't had any takers. The pqr appears only on his Web
page, www.xyz.com.
"I'm talking about the idea," said zxy, who is a self-made millionaire, with
twentyone copyrights and six patents.
He figures the problem now is connections.
"I'm still unable to open the right doors. I'm still Dan from nowhere," he
said. "In this country, if you are not Mike Tyson or Monica, there is no hope
to hit it big because nobody will give you the chance to present your ideas.
Had my name been Gary Condit . . ."
It seemed like a curious group of names for opening doors. Xyz often beats the
odds that say gambling is a way of getting nothing for something, but marketing
may not be his strong suit.
"I'm not an expert, but I'm a good gambler," he said. "I play the lottery, oh
yeah, every day. I pick my own numbers, and usually I play cold numbers.
Everything is a gamble. Well, almost everything, put it that way."
golaneata, fitz'ar plamanu a dracu, ai jucat ba la power ball? ca degeaba ai
jucat, mandea simte in adancu vezicii ca trage tunu si'si baga pula'n el job
si'n ele gingiile cif engineerului. acu sapte minute s'a inchis vinzarea
beletelor si cele doua sute de mil vor lua drumul contului pa numele meu.
voi calatori, voi da cu bani in cani, daca asta mi'e voia, voi fute adanc,
voi sta cu pula la soare si ma voi trezi in fiecare zi cand vrea pula mea,
strict. am de gand sa cumpar pelesul. hahaha.
uraaaaaaa, traiasca loiteria.
>golaneata, fitz'ar plamanu a dracu, ai jucat ba la power ball?
bien sure, mon cher. am jucat $42. uneori c^nd sunt prea beat joc 200 auto
lines, da' azi am avut o duma la tv si mi-a fost frica sa conduc prea ciupit,
al 3-lea dui m-ar pune out of business. P^na la 1:50 c^nd am iesit din casa am
comis 11 heineken si am avut de condus 8.6 miles (si g^ndeste-te ca a trebuit
sa ma si intorc!) Zamolxe fu cu mine: nu m-a oprit nici un sherif (de fapt am
un pont: conduc masina prietenei, care are platesurile crystal-clear; ea o
conduce p-a mea, da' ea nu bea sa se imbete)
>si cele doua sute de mil vor lua drumul contului pa numele meu.
>voi calatori, voi da cu bani in cani, daca asta mi'e voia, voi fute adanc,
>voi sta cu pula la soare si ma voi trezi in fiecare zi cand vrea pula mea,
>strict. am de gand sa cumpar pelesul. hahaha.
la munca ba sholdo! nu se leaga cum visezi tu sau io. Io am pus-o pe bune,
daca-mi dai o s^rma iti dau linkul pen articoiul din ziar - care mai dureaza in
arhiva inca 9 zile - unde o sa vezi linkul pen webpageul meu. Pari intreg la
minte. Adica pe acest forum nu dau doi bani dec^t pe trei persoane: tu, ijk
(nu-i treaba ta) si frost, in care n-am incredere.
altfel ios la fel de macho cum ma stiai
stapanul lumii
Ba, voi doi dupa ce cistigati lotteria, (cu tot fun-ul pe care o sa-l aveti
futind si b^nd) tot pe scr o sa faceti laba. Pariem?
"emigrated from Romania in 1988" = "emigrated from Romania in 1991"
"But so is xyz, 33" = "But so is xyz, 42"
"who is a self-made millionaire" = "who works in a warehouse"
ref.: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20010822210207...@mb-fp.aol.com
http://.../9968310437947166.xml
Hehehe, shall I continue, you "techie", you? ;-)
(NOTE: Answers to this posting will be monitored mainly on the
"soc.culture.romanian" newsgroup.)
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bv...@ncf.ca Fax: +1 (240) 250-1108
http://www.ncf.ca/~bv561/ Voicemail: +1 (718) 404-3905 x 5674
Canuck AkA Techie
P.S. in '88 eram inca la scoala.
"Stephen Dancs" <bv...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:9m3nbo$p0p$1...@freenet9.carleton.ca...
>Hehehe, shall I continue, you "techie", you? ;-)
please don't, SIR. How in the hell did ya find the article?! I know there is a
24 yo intern (former Miss Florida) in The White House that has a nail against
me (coz I refuse to marry her), but why the heck would she have contacted you?!
Thanx for not being more ... relevant, boss.
Cristi
ba baiete nu poti sa scapi de raul boanghenului nici in gaura de ... yahoo!
Futu-l care mai scrie pe scr!!
(imi zici si mie pe privat cum m-ai gasit?; sunt curios daca m-a dat vreo
cunostinta in primire..)
Have a great one,
Radu
p.s. http://.../9968310437947166.xml doesn't work. I don't know what's all
about, BUT DON'T MAKE IT WORK!!
> bv...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Stephen Dancs)
>Hehehe, shall I continue, you "techie", you? ;-)
I just checked my statistics, how did you get to my .....9.html?I This is
insane, I just built that webpage yesterday cause on 27 it will appear in
Washington Post. Are you on my computer?... I have 2 firewalls (Norton and
ZoneAlarm), what the hell is going on here?! I'll toss my hard drive into the
the microwave, I'll change my phone # and ISP, I'll change my name/sex/SSN.
Man, 23 is my worst number, I hope I just have a nightmare. I'll check scr when
I wake up
Hahaha, lis' mal da, "I have 2 firewalls, I have this, I have that..." n'
in the end, ciuciu, hahaha...
"Yes, somebody can destroy the Internet in about half an hour. I know
maybe a hundred people who could do it. But people can destroy the
physical world, too. Can you walk into a hardware store and say, 'Please
sell me a device that prevents murder'?" (Michael Specter, The Doomsday
Click, The New Yorker, May 28, 2001)
ref.: http://michaelspecter.com/ny/2001/2001_05_28_doomsday.html
So tell us, can you (sell me a device that prevents murder), punk? ;-)
PS: Sleep easy man, I'm not gonna rat on ya, why should I? As far as I'm
concerned, the issue was purely academic (see your
Nu va scremeti sa gasiti articolul...
ref.: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20010822210207...@mb-fp.aol.com
(Windows 3.1, which was released in 1992, consisted of three million
lines. Windows 2000 has about forty-two million lines. Security experts
say that any program with one bug in ten thousand lines is unusually well
written. If that is true, Windows 2000 would still have roughly forty-two
hundred bugs.)
ref.: ibidem
Kinda this is the idea. Now go back to sleep. ;-)
As your existence proves it, there are no devices that prevent idiots
from using a computer and a search engine.
> ba baiete nu poti sa scapi de raul boanghenului nici in gaura de ... yahoo!
> Futu-l care mai scrie pe scr!!
Cred ca gresiti, domnul meu. Individul si-a publicat mai demult
autobiografia pe SCR- nu e boanghen, ci tigan rutean get-beget. Tac-su
era caldarar, ma-sa zlatara cu monede impletite in par, le-a aparut
poza intr-o carte etnografica despre minoritatile migratoare din
Ucraina subcarpatica, el era mic cu muci la gura si paduchi, altfel
erau curati pentru tribul lor, se spalau in balta comunala cam de 4
ori pe an, de acolo i s-a tras si o incapatanare de a face lucrurile
dupa orar regulat, scrie pe SCR tot din automatism, cam de 3 ori pe
saptamana, e onanist cu moderatie (de 2 ori pe zi), totul il face sub
semnul periodicitatii, beneficiaza de asistenta publica si nu
cheltuieste un ban pe antidepresivele triciclice, i se dau la
policlinica in fiecare dimineata intr-un pahar de carton si le inghite
fara apa sub supraveghierea asistentei, de unde si amareala cu care se
rafuieste la intamplare pe soc.culture.romanian si
soc.culture.hungarian...
Are memorie relativ buna, altfel s-ar rataci si pe alte grupuri. A
recunoscut nu demult ca e urat ca un Neanderthal, ii puteti admira si
poza pe net, are ochi mici, rai, infundati in orbite, trasaturi
neregulate, gura ii miroase a hoit fiindca scrie pe net cu dintii
inclestati, o fi ceva de la stomac, desi nu cred sa avem noi norocul
asta....
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