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Here's my brother's correspondence with someone who would make him a millionaire...
I thought it funny enough to share...


Dear sirs:

Thank you for the opportunity to win 1-million Euros in your lottery. I am, however, unable to take advantage of your largesse for two reasons.

First, no one in my town accepts euros as payment. When I asked Ed at the feed store if he'd accept euros, he became quite upset and told me he will accept only American dollars. The story is the same, unfortunately, all over town. Gant Pickins down at Pickens Grocery, Tom Hernandez over at the Ford garage (where I have my pickup worked on) and Mavis Hurdy at the Dew Dropp Inn up on the highway all said they wouldn't know how much to charge me if all I had was euros. So that's the first problem.

Secondly, I am afraid that coming into such a fortune will destroy my good American work ethic, make me lazy and want to take a month off every summer like those guys in France do every year. If I had all that money, I'd sell the farm and move to town and just lay around on my butt all day, and pretty soon I'd be fat and unhealthy and probably die at an early age.

So, if you don't mind, I won't be picking up my million euros. Please don't take it personally, I'm sure they're perfectly spendable in Europe, but since I don't talk any of the languages over there, I see no reason to go there just to spend a million euros. You probably should just give it to some French guy -- they don't look like they do much anyway.

Thanks again,

Jeff Rice
Sterling, Colorado, USA