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    Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?

    Winning MegaMillions Ticket Sold In The Bronx

    Let Broke Teenage Lotto Winner Be A Lesson

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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    08/29/09

    In reply to Winning MegaMillions Ticket Sold In The Bronx
    I will overlook your ignorance of the Bronx since you made a Josh Harris joke.
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    Image of ian spiegelman ian spiegelman
    08/29/09

    In reply to Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?
    Ug. Just ug.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/29/09

    @ian spiegelman: Ian! Hello!
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    Image of ian spiegelman ian spiegelman
    08/29/09

    @Foster Kamer: Hello Foster. Are you taking care of my weekends? I'm really jealous of that.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/29/09

    @ian spiegelman: As you can tell, I'm doing a, uh, well...some kind of job. Broken galleries, bad geography, premature posting: you stopped in on an exciting weekend. Kind of like the president of the alumni association rolling up to school, with me, passed out on the commons lawn, a dick drawn on my face in sharpie. But these people (and I), we miss you! You are still very loved, and I hear about it often.
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    Edited by Foster Kamer at 08/29/09 9:47 PM Foster Kamer was starred Foster Kamer was unstarred
    Image of ian spiegelman ian spiegelman
    08/29/09

    @Foster Kamer:

    Well, summer posting is hard and unforgiving. There's no news, and it's hard to spread nothing around. But you seem to be doing pretty well. I would advise you to actively search out news involving monkeys and sharks and other pesky animals. That can always save the day, and is fitting as far as what I tried to construct for Gawker weekends.

    Otherwise, just keep going at it with an open mind, and maybe fit in more leisure. You're the weekend man after all. Wow, I really miss it now that I talk about it.

    Just have fun with it. You're the weekend guy, not a German Field Marshall. Try posting a Youtube "one more thing" Those are fun as hell!
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    08/29/09

    @ian spiegelman: Ian, you are missed.

    And Foster, that was, however, a championship salute to Ian.
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    Image of secretagentman secretagentman
    08/29/09

    @Foster Kamer: Hush. You do a fine job Foster.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/30/09

    @Foster Kamer: @ ian spiegelman: Lovely PDB (=Public Display of Bromance), brahs. You two should be arrested. Or at least forced to post a video of your virtual makeouts.
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    Edited by snugbug at 08/30/09 12:41 PM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    08/30/09

    @snugbug: Ok yes.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    08/29/09

    In reply to Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?
    i cant stop CRINGING OMGOMG
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    Image of blamenotmylute blamenotmylute
    08/29/09

    In reply to Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?
    Ahh, check her twitter now, Kamer. Looks like a negative.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/29/09

    @blamenotmylute: Yeah, looks that way, sadly. Post updated.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/29/09

    @blamenotmylute: ya, just a slight jump-o-the-gun there .. i'm skeptical of anyone who announces their win publicly the day after the drawing -- especially from a pron whore :p
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/29/09

    Agh. Video not working. But: related..

    [h8torade.com]
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    Edited by Foster Kamer at 08/29/09 8:37 PM Foster Kamer was starred Foster Kamer was unstarred
    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/29/09

    In reply to Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?
    c'mon.. not buying it. don't y'all remember Alan Abel's little hoax, pretending to throw a party for a purported lottery winner just to fuck with the media? And that was in 1990 when it was a lot harder to fameball...

    i call bullshit.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    08/29/09

    @lobstr: Looks like you were right. Thanks for this clip, yep I miss big hair.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/29/09

    In reply to Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?
    Dear Foster Kamer,

    Please go directly to remedial geography class.

    Thank you,

    San Gabriel.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/29/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: To disambiguate, Fosterino: San Gabriel, Calif. is in located in the San Gabriel Valley, not San Fernando Valley. It's a non-porny valley.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    08/29/09

    @snugbug: Corrected. I had sticky intel (hee!). But the part about her living in San Gabriel, regardless of their porn production, I've been assured as true.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/29/09

    In reply to Did This Social Media Alt-Porn Entrepreneuress Win Mega Millions?
    god is a vengeful beeyatch and she has a sense of humor and she is laughing, i am telling u, 4 serious
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    Edited by If_I_Had_a_Poodle at 08/29/09 7:43 PM If_I_Had_a_Poodle was starred If_I_Had_a_Poodle was unstarred
    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/29/09

    In reply to Winning MegaMillions Ticket Sold In The Bronx
    perhaps the East coast winner is a wise latina woman...
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/29/09

    In reply to Winning MegaMillions Ticket Sold In The Bronx
    Hah, suckers. Each is only going to end up with only about $66M. After hyperinflation that will only be about enough to subscribe to Gawker on Kindle.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    08/29/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: It'd take more than $66m to get me to move to the San Gabriel valley. A LOT more.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/29/09

    @Trai_Dep:

    I dunno... you could buy about 4.5M fifteen dollar San Gabriel massages for that.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/29/09

    In reply to Winning MegaMillions Ticket Sold In The Bronx
    but Ed Hardy shirts? Yet to be seen...
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/24/09

    In reply to Let Broke Teenage Lotto Winner Be A Lesson
    If you'd like to see the ultimate lottery-has-ruined-our-lives story, I would like to direct your attention herruh:

    Forty-two residents of the struggling cotton-farming town of Roby band together to enter the lottery. They buy 430 tickets. Then—on the eve of Thanksgiving, no less—they hit the jackpot, winning $46 million. You might expect a happy ending. Not even close.

    [www.cowboyjunkies.com]
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/24/09

    @lobstr: ...my favorite part:

    THE ROBY STAR-RECORD RAN just one article about the $46 million windfall: a reprint from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which it placed below the fold, at the very bottom of its front page, beneath a story whose headline read "Letters to Santa Due on December 17th." In Roby, it was a delicate news story; the fact that so many citizens had been caught gambling—and had brought international attention to the town by playing the numbers, no less—carried a whiff of impropriety in a community where nearly everyone's church affiliation is either Baptist or Church of Christ. When it came to light that more than half the deacons at the Roby Church of Christ were lottery winners, three families left the church in protest and parishioners debated whether the gamblers in their midst should be required to tithe their winnings. "That was the only uproar we had," said church member Foy Mitchell. "Our preacher told us that Sunday that the Good Book says not to judge, and that's the last he spoke of it."

    shall we say, lulz.
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    Image of Scratcher Scratcher
    08/24/09

    In reply to Let Broke Teenage Lotto Winner Be A Lesson
    Poor child. If she were in the US she'd have a book deal, reality show and movie of the week by now.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/24/09

    @Scratcher: definitely.. even her being from the the UK, it'd make for a good story... at least on Lifetime. The only question that remains.. who would play the mom -- Meredith Baxter Birney or Joanna Kerns?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    08/24/09

    In reply to Let Broke Teenage Lotto Winner Be A Lesson
    Perhaps this explains why you must be 18 to play the lotto in the U.S....
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    08/24/09

    In reply to Let Broke Teenage Lotto Winner Be A Lesson
    Rogers simply pissed away the money on homes,

    Buying a home isn't "pissing away" money. Either she made a really, really bad investment or the home(s) she bought is/are still worth something.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    08/24/09

    @badasscat: Im sorry but the idea of a home as a investment NEEDS to stop. Its not in most cases, especially as of late where homes are worth squat.

    There are certainly situations where buying a home (or land for a home) does net you money, but over time more money is put into a home than it will ever be worth in the long run.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    08/24/09

    @Jim Topoleski:
    Even if a home doesn't appreciate in value, it still has value and since she bought them with lottery winnings, nobody has an outstanding mortgage, so whatever their value, it's like money in the bank.
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    Edited by Magister at 08/24/09 8:56 AM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    08/24/09

    @Magister:

    It's likely she mortgaged the homes to continue to spend. That's especially common in the US, where the mortgage interest tax credit is a strong motivator to maintain debt.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    08/24/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: The article doesn't mention it. It does say that she's trying to sell her own home for £180k to pay a £3000 lawyer fee, so she probably has at least that much equity, but the article doesn't mention any second mortgages.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/24/09

    @badasscat: yeah but what about pissing away money on all her holmes?

    ba'bonk!
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    Image of gooneruk gooneruk
    08/24/09

    In reply to Let Broke Teenage Lotto Winner Be A Lesson
    To give her a little credit, she DID set up a £100k trust fund for the two kids, so she had some sound advice at some point.

    Oh, and two boob jobs, so it's not all been wasted.
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    Edited by gooneruk at 08/24/09 6:18 AM gooneruk was starred gooneruk was unstarred
    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    08/24/09

    @gooneruk: I caught that too. Good for her!
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