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During the Great Depression, there was a man who walked into a bar one day. He went up to the bartender and said, "Bartender, I'd like to buy the house a round of drinks."
The bartender said, "That's fine, but we're in the middle of the Depression, so I'll need to see some money first."
The guy pulled out a huge wad of bills and set them on the bar. The bartender can't believe what he's seeing. "Where did you get all that money?" asked the bartender.
"I'm a professional gambler," replied the ...
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MANILA (2nd UPDATE) - An illiterate, slum-dwelling Filipino carpenter who was too poor to send his six children to school became an instant millionaire Thursday with the country's second biggest-ever lottery win.
The 60-year-old collected a 356.5-million-peso (eight-million-dollar) cheque from a single 20-peso ticket, which was all he could afford, said an aide to Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager Jose Ferdinand Roxas.
"He plans to buy a house because he and his family ha... |
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NEW YORK–Facebook on Thursday dismissed as a “brazen and outrageous fraud” a lawsuit filed by a New York man who claims he is entitled to at least 50 percent of the wildly successful social network.
Paul Ceglia of Wellsville, New York, in a suit filed in June of last year, claimed that he signed a contract with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2003 to design a website called “The Face Book” or “The Page Book.”
Ceglia’s lawyers have produced copies of emails and a contract purp... |
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