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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 222730" data-attributes="member: 13556">Drinking again?&nbsp; When did I stop?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm already on my eighth cup of coffee today.&nbsp; It's a good thing I won't be holding a camera, because I wouldn't be able to hold it steady at all.Seriously, my name here comes from the phonetic alphabet (Whiskey = W) and my days of military flying.&nbsp; I had a six-digit identifier that started with &quot;Whiskey&quot;, and one day the guys from a ground station called me the Whiskeyman, and it sort of stuck to me as my all sign from then on.&nbsp; It's like Tom Cruise's character in the movie Top Gun - &quot;Maverick&quot;.Too bad that your uncle was that way after he won.&nbsp; I worked with a guy about ten years ago, and we had to look into his background because his lifestyle (specifically his home mortgage) didn't come close to matching his income.&nbsp; Turns out his parents played the lottery for their entire family, and they won an $85-$90-million jackpot.&nbsp; If I remember right, he was paying income taxes on well over $1-million a year.&nbsp; He asked us to keep it quiet because they didn't want people to know, so we did.&nbsp; I would have never known this about him if we didn't need to look into it for a background check.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are so many lottery stories with sad endings.WM</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whiskeyman, post: 222730, member: 13556"] Drinking again? When did I stop?:) I'm already on my eighth cup of coffee today. It's a good thing I won't be holding a camera, because I wouldn't be able to hold it steady at all. Seriously, my name here comes from the phonetic alphabet (Whiskey = W) and my days of military flying. I had a six-digit identifier that started with "Whiskey", and one day the guys from a ground station called me the Whiskeyman, and it sort of stuck to me as my all sign from then on. It's like Tom Cruise's character in the movie Top Gun - "Maverick". Too bad that your uncle was that way after he won. I worked with a guy about ten years ago, and we had to look into his background because his lifestyle (specifically his home mortgage) didn't come close to matching his income. Turns out his parents played the lottery for their entire family, and they won an $85-$90-million jackpot. If I remember right, he was paying income taxes on well over $1-million a year. He asked us to keep it quiet because they didn't want people to know, so we did. I would have never known this about him if we didn't need to look into it for a background check. There are so many lottery stories with sad endings. WM [/QUOTE]

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