LONG JOHN SILVER'S and the Powerball Winner?

[Itsme]

After you win all that money, why would you want to "work."

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From Promo Extra Newsletter:

LONG JOHN SILVER'S: is offering the winner of the $365 million Powerball jackpot a chance to serve as the QSR's national spokesperson for its new Buttered Lobster Bites. Under the proposal, the yet-to-be-named winner would visit restaurants nationwide donning the Long John's Silver's lobster costume and appear in TV spots and P-O-P advertising and p.r. materials. The company said the newest millionaire could help boost its Lobster Bites products, which would let customers enjoy a "taste of the good life." In return, Long John Silver's would bring the winner a little more fame. Last week, a convenience store in Lincoln, NE, reported it sold the winning Powerball ticket for the largest lottery jackpot. The winner has not yet come forward to claim the prize.

[nickel]

After you win all that money, why would you want to "work."

i agree. that would be the last thing i would be doing if i just fell into that amount of moulah.

also, anyone know who the winner(s) is yet? supposedly it was a group of people who worked at the Congra-Foods plant across the road from the store where the winning ticket was sold.

[Cubsfan]

Maybe if someone wants to also be "famous", they could see this as a stepping stone for that.

[zero2dash]

I just won more money than most millionaires make in their lifetimes...what to do next, what to do...
I KNOW...
I'll go around wearing a lobster costume while my millions sit in the bank! Hoo hah!

:shrug: Somehow I don't see anyone having that mentality. :heh:

[nickel]

Powerball Winners Revealed in Nebraska

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Life just got a bit more interesting for eight Nebraskans." With that, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman began the introductions today in Lincoln of the eight winners of the largest lottery prize ever awarded in the U.S.

The employees of a meat packing plant held the lucky ticket in Saturday`s 365-million-dollar Powerball drawing. They have opted to take a lump sum payout of 124-point-one-million-dollars that will be divided eight ways.

The divisions amount to 22-point-one million-dollars a piece.

The winning ticket was sold Friday afternoon at a U-Stop in Lincoln just after three o`clock in the afternoon.

One of the winners told reporters he has no idea at this time what he will do with his new-found fortune.

Winner Eric Zornes joked that he had been "retired for about four days now." Dung Tran, who is originally from Vietnam, is the member of the group who bought the winning ticket.

Speaking in broken English, Tran said he is "very happy" and plans to stay in the U.S.

He later spoke tearfully in Vietnamese about the win and paused to say in English, quote, "Thank you."

Powerball tickets are sold in 28 states, including Louisiana, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=10592

[Itsme]

Maybe if someone wants to also be "famous", they could see this as a stepping stone for that.

If you took a survey of all the major lottery winners, I think the last thing they would want is to be "famous". From what I have read they have all had to change their phone numbers, etc. They get more calls from people who want money than we can imagine.

[zero2dash]

http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=10592

I wonder how many tickets they bought/chipped in for. This time and the last time it was above 200mil, at my job we all pitched in $5 apiece and some of us bought tickets outside of work (I did for $10 on this one).

It'd be great to win - but yes, I think it's safe to say that winning means moving into a new house (new address) with an unpublished phone number etc. But if moving meant I'd get to keep millions of dollars...then tell me which company is the best for moving furniture 'cause I'm packing. :D