Youth, some wag once said and then was quoted by millions of old folks over the years, is wasted on the young.
Maybe it’s called irony. We don’t know.
But two recent lottery winners figure into that whole wasted-youth dictum.
You read about the 60-year-old Australian guy who won almost $350,000 after picking the same number on three Lotto tickets.
It turns out he bought three tickets because, first, he forgot he'd bought one already, and second, he didn't trust a friend to buy the ticket he wanted.
We thought until just a few minutes ago that 60 was not terribly old. We've been corrected by a 47-year-old colleague, who says 60 is "g------ old." (He actually said "goldern.")
So if 60 is old, what do you say about 78? That's the age of the guy in Dexter, Mich., who just won his second -- that’s right, SECOND -- $1 million lottery scratch-and-sniff prize.
And what has Russell Tanner done? That’s right. He has shared his money with his children.
They’re probably a lot younger than he.

Posted at May 13, 2004 02:27 PM