Just wanted to give some belated props to the folks at the NC Education Lottery for rolling out some new addictive web features and simultaneously ramping up advertising under the guise of promoting a "problem gambling" helpline. I suspect the commercials really helped folks understand the seriousness of gambling addiction:

When you play the lottery and other games of chance, it's often about the numbers: favorite numbers; random numbers; lucky numbers. You scratch numbers, and you match numbers. It can be a lot of fun...blah, blah, blah. A message from the NC Education Lottery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPWD0cZRGo

I especially liked the way they included oddly upbeat music and plenty of pleasurable gambling imagery. Bravo!

3/17/2011 6:24:38 AM

gettin your early mornin hate on

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

3/17/2011 6:39:02 AM

and playing cards with your friends is illegal but the state will take all your rent money with scratch offs.

3/17/2011 6:57:46 AM

I love that they are trying to shut down the slot machine businesses, while state sanctioned gambling continues

3/17/2011 6:59:03 AM

the only issues I have with this are:

1) you may only gamble via the government
2) wasting money on the gambling help hotline

3/17/2011 7:56:35 AM

3/17/2011 8:05:52 AM

oh, do you think that "gamlin' is dah po'man's tax"?

3/17/2011 8:29:52 AM

the is for the OP...pick your "vice" and then point to the "victims" of said vice and claim that those who "enable" them to be victims are "bad"

i wonder if i could "use" more "quotes"

3/17/2011 8:35:50 AM

ah, gotcha. so we're pretty much on the same page then

3/17/2011 8:37:29 AM

we agree...FOR ONCE

3/17/2011 8:37:50 AM

haha,

3/17/2011 8:38:28 AM

3/17/2011 9:20:26 AM

A) That's some cool art right there.
B) It's kinda disturbing at the same time.

3/17/2011 11:16:56 AM

that's from All Quiet on the Western Front!! who said Nerdchick ain't cultured

3/17/2011 1:31:14 PM

I like that comic.

3/17/2011 4:37:08 PM

so, the female sniper in the ghillie suit shoots through the guy with the baseball and hits the other soldier cause he's distracted by the butterfly?

3/17/2011 4:49:40 PM

^
no, the butterfly has the power to make people's chests explode

3/17/2011 4:55:13 PM

oh the soldier is daydreaming and it costs him his life, got it

3/17/2011 4:56:28 PM

Quote :

"so, the female sniper in the ghillie suit shoots through the guy with the baseball and hits the other soldier cause he's distracted by the butterfly?"

He was distracted and lifted his head up. She didn't.

3/17/2011 4:57:06 PM

Quote :

"no, the butterfly has the power to make people's chests explode"

haha

3/17/2011 4:59:13 PM