Who would bet 8 million dollars on a 50/50 chance of winning? I wouldn't call it an investment.
And Johnny Cat is right, in order to make your odds 50/50, you would have to fill out the forms for 8 million different number combinations. At 5 seconds per form, it would take you 462 days, without sleeping, to fill them out. And how long do think it would take the guy at 7-11 to process them?
Hey, did you know, here in Canada, we don't have to pay taxes on lottery winnings? So if it's a big jackpot (not that it ever gets to hundreds of millions)we get to keep it all!

Geez, he charged his own brother to get into the park?

@lester dent and Missbookworm
If you look at the pegs, you will see a raised ridge along the side. It is probably an orientation line.

Hey, I'd better check my change jar!

It's like the old story about the kid throwing starfish back in to the ocean. Does it make a difference? It does to that one.

Take a look at a map. Find Wollaston Lake. What else is around it? If you started following the poles, you could walk hundreds of miles before you ever found someone. Except maybe some of the really hungry bears.
No one would ever have found him. He did the smart thing. Inconvenient for the people of WL, but they would have done the same thing in his place.

I already have something like that. It's from the birthday suit line, and it's called a face! Unfortunately , this accessory is not compatible for those who have recently purchased from the botox collection.

I too refused to play Operation. And also a game called Perfection, where you had to get all the little shapes in before the the buzzer went and popped up all your pieces. Even my Mom gave me a hard time for having such delicate nerves!

@ VonSkippy - The dog may not have a wife and kids to show his medal to, but surely he has someone who takes care of him that will be proud to show the medal to others. Dogs know when a big fuss is being made over them and I am sure he was pleased to be the centre of attention that day.
And we can't give Gravity a medal, even if it had a mass to affix the medal to; it would keep throwing it on the ground!

According to a tv interview with the researcher, Stanley Coren (who used to have a show called "Good Dog"!),he said it was 165 words and gestures.
My dog didn't know what the word "lipstick" meant, but he used to whine every time he saw me put it on, because he knew it meant I was going out.

The magpie in me admires the pretty colours, but the librarian in me shudders at the horror of it all.

Shelby and Patrick:
We had a similar chocolate bar in Canada when I was a kid, but it was called a Wig Wag. Chunks of chocolate would always fall off the caramel and onto your clothes, which was not a great Mom-pleaser!
Does anyone remember a chocolate bar called Bar Six?

Hey, I can see my house from here!

Alright, who installed the flux capacitor on the outside?

You should read Bad Move, by Linwood Barclay. It's a mystery about a science-fiction writer named Zach who moves his family to the suburbs because he thinks it will be safer than their old neighborhood. Zach's the kind of dad who sets up scenarios to teach lessons to his kids and wife on the dangers of their careless ways. Taking from a shopping cart a purse he believes to be his wife's leads Zach to all kinds of sordid goings-on in his "safe" new neighborhood. It's hilarious!