Tom Scharpling (Purple Shirt)

[bookem_dan-o]

One of the most unintentionally funny photo captions ever:

http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/2007/08-Aug/funnybusiness_people.htm

(scroll down to the bottom)

[Martin]

Haha, awesome!

[Sarah]

I almost posted about this yesterday afternoon.  It was so perfect I wondered if it were a little joke intended just for us.

[Richard_From_CHI]

I always assumed Purple Shirt was a bit.

[LostInReno]

I see we all listen to 7 Second Delay or avid readers of New Jersey Monthly.

[Richard_From_CHI]

Despite living many miles away, I watch my mailbox for the new New Jersey Monthly. It is the sunshine of my life, yeah, and I always want it around.

[LostInReno]

Despite living many miles away, I watch my mailbox for the new New Jersey Monthly. It is the sunshine of my life, yeah, and I always want it around.

I dig it I wish there was something in Reno that was free that I could read. All we have is Reno News and Review it blows.

[Richard_From_CHI]

I've been to Reno and I am sorry. If it makes you feel better you can drown your pain in the slot machine that is ubiquitously placed every 10 feet throughout the state. Also isn't prostitution legal. Who needs a free paper when you have all that!

[LostInReno]

I've been to Reno and I am sorry. If it makes you feel better you can drown your pain in the slot machine that is ubiquitously placed every 10 feet throughout the state. Also isn't prostitution legal. Who needs a free paper when you have all that!

ha,ha,ha, That is a good point but I'm not 21 yet and gambling is so boring.

[Richard_From_CHI]

Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math.

[Susannah]

Richard, *just today* my friend said, "Playing the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."  Which, of course, is a form of gambling!  Coincidence?  Or was that just in a recent Economist article or something?

[Andy]

I had a professor who used to say "I'm all for the lottery.  It's a tax on stupid, therefore it's a tax that I don't have to pay"

So myopic.

[Fido]

Richard, *just today* my friend said, "Playing the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."  Which, of course, is a form of gambling!  Coincidence?  Or was that just in a recent Economist article or something?

I've always thought of it as a massively regressive tax. Which I guess is true, but I'd learn more if I read the Economist or this site more often.

[Richard_From_CHI]

Not the economist, sadly I have worked with many many low income people who spend a large portion of their wages on the lottery. High income people do it too, but they don't suffer as much.

[Sarah]

The lottery and those scratch card things.  I remember sitting in awe at the American Legion once--mind you, I was already a bit shaken by the venue alone--watching a fairly poverty-stricken person buy handful after handful of those things.  The intensity with which he scraped his quarter across that silver stuff was scary to behold.