Hester wins a locker in an upcoming episdode....either July 10 or July 17, 2012.

May have been taped before the dust-up about his salary on SW, but time will tell if he lasts or not.

And like everything else in life....there is death. Of course a show like Law and Order lasted 20 years and so have many soap operas.

Reading several threads on staged units and thought I'd share.....
Now this was told to me back in 1989-90ish by sn OLD timer and he was known to tell some good stories.
Some were truth....some based off truth....some...um....who knows?
So take this with a grain if salt.....

This guy was an 'events stager'. He'd set up for conventions.
Primarily for Sears (I think it was) so he would store displays till next use.
99% of the stuff (lawn mowers, air compressors ...) were either extremely good plastic replicas or the real thing with no guts. And of course a ton of boxes for the back drop.
He lost the account and everything was in s storage unit. He didn't want to empty and dispose so he defaulted on purpose.
So here comes the auction, doors open and looky here!!!!
LOOKS like a 20x30 filled with brand new lawn mowers, compressors, tools, tires.....and unopened box's stacked floor to ceiling, wall to wall!!!

Bidding went thru the roof!
He didn't know this but what ever is bid pays the storage bill....anything over the bill and legal fee's? Yep...he got sent a check for several thousand dollars and the bidder got stuck with empty boxes and plastic replicas.

By how he talked I'd say this was in the late 70's so several grand was a lot.
He said he did it a few more times and made a killing.
He was a conning, untrustworthy sort that'd sell ya out for a dollar and always a scam brewing so maybe this story is true. Maybe it's just something he thought up but never tried and turned it into a story....?

The manager is lucky the guy didn't turn around and sue him for breach of contract, by making him leave a unit he was paying rent on and lawfully occupying.

As a long-time poker player, I decided a few years back to apply some gambling math theory to the world of the lottery.

What I discovered was that when the jackpot gets big enough, the odds actually justify playing.

I don't recall the exact numbers, but for sake of argument:

If the odds of matching all the numbers are 1 in 230 million
AND
The top prize is greater than $230 million
AND
The ticket price is $1
THEN
The odds favor playing.

This is actually a favorable situation because it does not consider the secondary prizes for matching some of the numbers.

There is one thing that blows a hole into my entire analysis... TAXES!!!

Once you consider the tax liability associated with a large win, the odds are skewed in a truly adverse manner.

My conclusion was ultimately that it is still not worth playing, but not nearly as stupid as most people make it out to be.

Food for thought.

Well it keeps coming, going through some small I though were junk I took a careful look at this and saw the name!  These are worth around $50 to $100. Some were real gold this one is not marked so must be plate. Probably from the 50s.