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THE US POWERBALL jackpot has grown to a massive $1.9 billion after no one won Saturday’s already record prize.
The winning numbers were 28, 45, 53, 56 and 69, with a Powerball of 20.
With no ticket matching the five numbers and the Powerball, the pot rolls over with a grand prize of $1.9 billion up for grabs in tomorrow’s draw, organisers said.
The Powerball jackpot is the biggest ever amassed, surpassing the already record $1.6 billion which went unclaimed in yesterday draw.
The odds of winning the jackpot are still 1 in 292.2 million, organisers said. If there are duplicate winners who select the same combination of numbers, they would share the jackpot.
While no one claimed the big prize on Saturday, 16 tickets matched the five main numbers to win $1 million each.
It costs $2 to buy a Powerball ticket, and a winner could choose a lump sum payment, calculated for Monday’s jackpot at $929 million. Or they could opt for payments over 29 years.
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I didnt want to ever do this,but u have forced my hand ,u nation of battered mars bar munchers. THE LOUGHNESS MONSTER IS A FAKE
Try Loch Ness Monster
Deep fried mars bar munching, now there’s myth that needs debunking
A couple of students on Lough Foyle claimed to have seen a creature last May and the Indo dubbed it the Lough Ness monster. Apparently. I’m as sceptical as the next man.
Most of us got what you were saying Ronnie. Good post!
Betcha they where rangers fans.
The local people, local to the area, spell it Loch.
In my experience, if the local people spell it that way, that’s what they would prefer, also it makes it easier for people to know what they were talking about, no such place as Loughness, type it into your computer
Yes it really was side splitting, and worth marking out as a top post, although still spelt wrong
Is it not also thec spelling in Irish?
John O – do you make a beeping noise when you back up like that?
Who’s rangers?
Wow, so myths aren’t real. Groundbreaking stuff
They must have little to be doing….. It beggars belief that people actually believe this myth in the first place.
Which one? There were a number of myths about it’s origins!
People believe all sorts of silly stuff,
80% of the Irish population put themselves down in the census as believing in a carpenters son who died for everyone’s sins and then came back to life, every week people also meet to eat him. Its all seen as perfectly normal and acceptable.
Sounds crazy, but yet some very intelligent, seriously respect people believe it.
So taking into account what 80% of the Irish population claim they believe how are the myths surrounding the Blarney stone so unbelievable? Because less people believe them? Because you don’t believe them?
University of Glasgow should investigate those claims.
Give it a rest Martin you’re like a broken record.
As far as I was always concerned the Blarney Stone was always just a bit of fun, a “myth” to all intensive purposes. I know of no person who has ever felt any different other than an over exuberant tourist every know and again. They must still be upset that they found out William Wallace screamed surrender very early on in his torture
Sorry Tom, i just have to do this, you have forced my hand….it’s: ‘for all intents and purposes’ not intensive purposes.
Thanks Andrea, mistake is learned and should never be repeated
The feckers.
Imagine, a myth about a rock giving one the gift of the gab turns out to be pure shite. Money well spent by the boffins as usual.
I think it’s the myth surrounding the rocks origin, rather than the gift of the gab myth they were debunking, the clue is in the words, if you actually read the article rather then the headline
Read the article? Are you MAD?
That’s exactly true John.
Oh yeah. What do they know?
I have a rock also it makes ya bleed
. Every time I throw it at your face
Who gives a shite we see if these Scottish are brave enough to be free or they like be pally with opressors of so many nations
The Scots……………ummmm
They’ve obviosuly got sour grapes over something, but where should we start?
2014 Rugby 6 Nations.
Scientists constantly disproving ‘Nessie’
Ireland is content to be an Independent State
Irish cuisine certainly beats the “battered anything with chips”
The scots are always ‘angry’ at something or other.
Yea an independent state like us, with our own currency, that doesn’t owe anything to anyone, who has complete control over our own budget.
Yea Scotland come and be just like us, it’s great!!!
The story with the Blarney Stone is that you bee to have the gift of the gab to convince someone to kiss a big rock when you’re upside down and pay for it. It’s ironic :)
The Stone of Destiny is on the hill Tara not in Edinburgh Castle!!!
In reality, the opening was probably the toilet of the tower
About 30+ years ago, while hanging around Blarney as a youngster, I remember a group of smelly socks, I mean Jocks, asked me where exactly was the stone in the castle. I pointed out a large rock that was holding open the old wooden door into the castle. Not saying these were the egg heads from Glasgow but it’s a possibility….
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
It’s fatwah time!
Of course it’s local. If it wasn’t from Cork it would defeat the purpose of getting the ‘gift of the gab’ eh!!!
Why spoilsports? Do people actually believe any of these myths to be true?
Science is about discovery. I would much rather be informed than dumb and ignorant.
The World is flat, God is a DJ!
The locals lay cables and piss on it at night time, no gift worth that!!
I knew a lad from Kerry, reckoned the local lads all used to go up and piss on the stone when the pub closed..
So is it a myth that the Irish pee on the Blarney Stone?
Just the women!
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