Jeriko-1 
Shit, no Mayberry RFD this week?!
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spikestoyiu If you were a Mayberry RFD fan, and your number was pulled, I have to imagine this was the worst night ever.
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boba.
this is ignorant of me, but i've talked to many people who went to vietnam and i never knew that the lottery was birthday-based
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Cena_mark It was a spinoff of the Andy Griffith show.
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Louis Armstrong
Still horiffying. Thank god for the Christmas Norelco commercial in the midle of this. Provided this nice bizaro sanity saving moment before it went back it the horror
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Herr Matthias
Shoot, I was #2 on the list. Glad I wasn't born 30 years sooner.
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mouser
Say merry Christmas to the lady with a shiny new cordless electric razor!
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Camonk
They couldn't even get the reporter a chair that faced the camera? Weak.
Also, even though it's 35+ years on, I was still watching for my birthday to come up in that dreadful first third. Eerie.
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MagickPoultry
I must object to the "Pure chance" tag. I attended a talk once about the statistics of it. I think what it came down to was the way that they mixed the capsules together caused a bias towards selecting birthdays in the later months.
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fluffy Of course it's not like being "racist" against late-month birthdays is that big a deal. It would have been just as fair if they'd gone in purely sequential order.
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MagickPoultry Perhaps. Or are certain segments of the population more likely to have babies at certain times in the year, due to cultural, geographic, or some other reasons? I don't know the answer to this, but it must be considered.
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Camonk Yeah and racists would NEVER go through a lot of time and trouble just to make sure young people of a class or race they hated would be more likely to die in an unpopular war. Lucky for poor blacks and other minorities, it was mostly them to die in the war! O
Oh crap.
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La Loco
Yay, too bad they ended the Vietnam war, maybe they can start a new one for the Irak war. I've never won a lottery before.
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TeflonDoc
April 17 260!? I won. I won! I wuh--FUCK!
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Knuckles
My birthday was 010. My dad got drafted and his number was 100, so... yeah, pretty much woulda been fucked.
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Comrade Admiral
Valentine's Day...
Bummer.
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boner
There's a good chance somebody in that room had a son get drafted... I guess
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Wonko the Sane
Worst. Kinder Surprise. Ever.
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Stog Imagine if they had to unwrap and eat all the chocolate off of those capsules on air.
"Mmm, mmmm. Man, this is great chocolate. This is the best draft ever. Mmmm..."
"Phil! Open the capsule already!"
"Oh, oh yeah! Uh... August 3rd! 2-6-1!"
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mashedtater
if i had been a boy and back then, i would have been drafted the next year.
actually i would have been drafted the next three years.
here is a list to all the drafts:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm
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j lzrd / swift idiot
SEEYA IN CANADA, FUCKOS!!
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