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To our Canadian friends - bone up on your math!

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Basil

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So I was looking at a charity drawing on a popular charity fund raising site. This particular drawing was one in which the more you donate the more entries you get for the grand prize. On the bottom half of the page, there is a section titled "Stuff Our Lawyers Want You To Read." There, buried in the fine print, I ran across a weird requirement for entrants who happen to be Canadian. I say weird because all the Canadians I've known are quite good at math. I would love to know the rationale behind this requirement, and I'd love to know what the mathematical test involves (Solve PI to 7,000 places?) :popworm: Anyway, here is a screen shot of this section of the legal requirements, with the special Canadian requirement highlighted.

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Basil said:
Well, that does explain it....doesn't make it any less weird, but it does explain it!
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Just proves you can’t get lucky in Canada :ROFLMAO:
 
So,if you have a winning lottery ticket (in Canada),
do you need to answer a question correctly?
 
AngliaGT said:
So,if you have a winning lottery ticket (in Canada),
do you need to answer a question correctly?
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Nope just contests and sweepstakes.

OTOH Lottery wins (and casino wins) are considered windfalls and therefore are not taxed. :D
 
When bureaucrats get involved.

...and why we can't have nice things. :oops:
 
Canada (Ontario) has some quirks like this.

Until recently you could only buy Beer at the Beer Store (used to be called Brewer's Retail) - as a condition of ending prohibition the gubbmint took over selling Beer and Liquor. They still sell Liquor - at the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario)

You can buy liquor at a distillery, beer at a brewery, wine at a winery and, now, wine and beer at some retail stores (but that is recent - in convenience stores within the last 4 years.)

I just remember going with my father to the beer store, him filling out an order form, taking it to the desk, paying and a fellow going into the back room and bringing back the order. (beer and liquor both)

Most of my adult life, you went to the Beer Store and bought your beer and the case came down a set of rollers from the back - you didn't pick it up until you were leaving. Now they have stores with displays where you pick up your beer and take it to the cash.

Oh and if you are under 19 (drinking age) you aren't even allowed to pick up a bottle in the store - and they enforce it.

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JPSmit said:
Canada (Ontario) has some quirks like this.

Until recently you could only buy Beer at the Beer Store (used to be called Brewer's Retail) - as a condition of ending prohibition the gubbmint took over selling Beer and Liquor. They still sell Liquor - at the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario)

You can buy liquor at a distillery, beer at a brewery, wine at a winery and, now, wine and beer at some retail stores (but that is recent - in convenience stores within the last 4 years.)

I just remember going with my father to the beer store, him filling out an order form, taking it to the desk, paying and a fellow going into the back room and bringing back the order. (beer and liquor both)

Most of my adult life, you went to the Beer Store and bought your beer and the case came down a set of rollers from the back - you didn't pick it up until you were leaving. Now they have stores with displays where you pick up your beer and take it to the cash.

Oh and if you are under 19 (drinking age) you aren't even allowed to pick up a bottle in the store - and they enforce it.

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Government run liquor stores, that seems really strange to me.
 
Gliderman8 said:
We have a similar system in PA. The state controls all liquor sales.
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Went back there a decade ago, the "old" distributor a couple miles away had gone out of business. Had to drive twenty miles to buy CAB...

Glad to get back here again. :cheers:
 
I remember the PA State Stores from when I was there in the late '50s. I assumed they were gone by now.
 
Bayless said:
I remember the PA State Stores from when I was there in the late '50s. I assumed they were gone by now.
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Refer to post #8 in this thread...
 
AngliaGT said:
We have liquor stores here run by the State,er,commonwealth of Virginia.
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Pennsylvania is also a Commonwealth. Lived in both. Coincidence? :devilish:
 
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