“Tell me this, Ken,” he said, bringing his chair closer to mine.  “Whats the chance of me becoming a lottery winner?” and he paused for effect…. “I mean, the REAL percentage chance, using your system?”"That’s easy,” I replied, “1 in a 100.”He looked a bit depressed. “I had expected something higher than that. What about your 98% figure?” “Oh, that still applies as well.” Now my visitor really
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Owing to the intense interest from my last article (thanks mom! I’m going to tell you how I saved a military jet from exploding, and me dying (yet again). I’ve never told this story publicly before. But now that my contract of non-disclosure has long expired, I can reveal it. (Hope I don’t get a knock on the door from some stern faced officials who take me off to a bare room lit only by a
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Lester’s voice was cracking with emotion. The 60 year-old communications engineer sounded bitterly disappointed as he told me about his loss. “I had all the numbers, you wouldn’t believe it,” he said over the phone. “A million dollars, I missed a million dollars!” We go back a long way, some 25 years. Now living in Australia, he’s kicking himself for not buying the tickets that fateful Saturday
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True story from a few decades ago. The hard-faced military skydiving instructor pointed at a parachute on the side of the DC3 aircraft.  We were at 5,000 feet and the noise of the twin engines reverberating in the empty plane was so loud I couldn’t hear him speak. All the parachutists had jumped. The plane was empty. As a young air force photographer it was my job to take some publicity shots
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I was a recreational motorcyclist for many years. But never again.  I’ll tell you why in a minute.First, I should explain that for the best part of 25 years, rain and shine, I went to work on one, rode round the weekends on one, visited places on one, rode in groups (not that often) on one. I even rode across the Nullabor plains in Australia on one.And I had a funny attitude to motorcycling.
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Our two friends and my wife and I sat down at an outside cafe table one recent afternoon. And everything was wrong about it. Our friends were generous people who wanted to shout us a meal. And they had chosen this place for its low price because they were on a budget. But nothing suited me. The table next door was filled with tattooed, cursing teens. The cafe was also a bar… both my
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In a moment of inattention the other day I drove my Bentley Continental GT into the edge of a gutter, scraping one of the spokes. And the wheel repair guy – a master tradesman with a great reputation – has just left my garage after fixing it. It now looks like new, and cost me a lot less than a hundred bucks. Now, back in the days when I was as poor as a churchmouse, this kind of catastrophe
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My wife and I will be celebrating our 6th year in our new homethis year. When the anniversary date popped up on my screen thismorning, it brought back a lot of memories. I had been planning for this house for a long time – withoutknowing about it.Let me explain…We replaced our TV in our old home, and I insisted on the largest plasma screen I could possibly buy,a massive 50″ (it was big back
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I get a lot of emails from people who have won small amounts… $ 100 to $ 10,000.  They’re so numerous that I haven’t bothered putting them up on the testimonials section of my Silver Lotto System. So don’t think it’s just the bigger winners that use my system, like Maher’s $ 3.2 milllion and Lester’s $ 1 milllion.  There’s a lot of people who are very happy with enough cash to pay off the credit
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It’s a bit sad…A man won $ 2 million in a lottery show in Michigan still uses food stamps. The winner – who lost over half his winnings to taxes – still swipes the electronic card at stores a year after his win. More here.
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