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Want a ‘Kwikie’? New name for lottery ticket sparks concern in Maine
Yahoo! News ^
| 3/18/13
| Dylan Stableford
Posted on 03/19/2013 8:22:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Convenience-store owners in Maine are concerned that the state lottery wants to rebrand its scratch-off lottery tickets as "Kwikies."
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The newspaper interviewed a cashier who said he tested the new name by asking customers if they would like a Kwikie.
“I tried that on a couple of women," Tom Borden, a cashier at Fox Brook Variety in Dover-Foxcroft, said. "It didn’t go over very well."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: lottery; napl
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Ayuh.
To: Slings and Arrows
How ‘bout a “wookie”, kinda’ honoring our Royal Hind-ass?
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:24:04 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Seems appropriate, given that the lottery results in people who are bad at math getting scr*wed.
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:24:59 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Well I go to the store to get bred about once a week.
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:25:51 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Slings and Arrows
I dunno,,, I may be ready for a bump first...
hit it !
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:26:36 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: Slings and Arrows
Because it’s North of the Mason-Dixon line, they could have called it a “Yankee”
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:30:22 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:31:33 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: cripplecreek
Well I go to the store to get bred about once a week.First bred, then milk?
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:32:27 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: JRios1968
Only if it was a pull-off.
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:33:21 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Seems appropriate, given that the lottery results in people who are bad at math getting scr*wed.The whole lottery concept is fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Perhaps the most ironic thing about lotteries is you can't buy the tickets with a credit card ... 'cause that would be irresponsible.
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:33:56 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I love it when spell check selects every single word in my post.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Get a kwikie here and you’ll be scratchin’
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:35:18 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Get a kwikie here and you’ll be scratchin’Don't be crabby.
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:35:57 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Pan_Yan
It’s just another example of magical thinking.
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:38:22 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
This country has fallen down into the sewer and can’t get up.
As Freud might have said:
“Sometimes a lottery ticket is just a lottery ticket.”
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:40:07 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(I miss America, don't you?)
To: Slings and Arrows
Want a ‘Kwikie’? New name for lottery ticket sparks concern in MaineScratch and Stiff?
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posted on
03/19/2013 8:48:04 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I love it when spell check selects every single word in my post.)
To: Pan_Yan
Can I get them with an EBT card?
To: Slings and Arrows
Appropriate considering that with lotto odds someone is getting screwed.
To: JRios1968
No more Yankee my wankie. The Donger need food.
To: Pan_Yan
no...but u can go to the ATM right next to the tickets and get the cash from your EBT card to buy them.....I watch this happen everyday!!!!!!.....Mostly young able-bodied people....it sickens me!
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posted on
03/19/2013 9:39:28 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
03/19/2013 10:48:27 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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