parrot wrote: ↑

June 26, 2017, 3:08 pm

Gaggles of tourists again visited Kham Chanote over the weekend, most gearing up for another lottery draw at the beginning of the month. Where better to find your lucky number than on the roots of a tree?
At the same time as thousands queued to enter the island, a husband and wife team brought over 100,000 eggs and bunches of fruit to pay homage to the spirit inhabiting the island. After the ceremonial offering was made, the husband and wife began handing out 10 eggs to each tourist at the island. When it became apparent that too much time would be spent doing so, they passed out a 60 eggs at a crack to each tourist (one panel).
How times have changed for sleepy Ban Dung!!
http://www.tnews.co.th/contents/330927

They would have been better off making a rather large omelette and trying to define the lucky number from that.

Went the Melon Farm yesterday and we had a laugh and said " lets go to the Lucky temple "

Feeling lucky, we took the short cut road as you travel up the Baan Dung road, and turn right. WRONG

Its now in some sections reduced to 10 kph , as its full of potholes, washouts , took an extra hour ( 60 minutes ) maybe thats lucky ??

On the way, observed literally 100's of places all selling various lucky gifts.

Arrived and it was pissing down big time.

Found a car park and paid 30 baht ( lucky 30 ? ) then paid 40 baht each for some small offering for the temple ( 40 is lucky ? )

I didnt go in, as it was well under way with flooding water, but it didnt stop 100's there.

Unlucky as all those got very muddy feet and jeans etc, but lucky for those who sold water @ 10 baht

Finally Gf and her friend exited and felt lucky and wanted some lottery tickets, so I said, please buy from the sellers with the physical disabilities , further down the line from all the others. Why , i was asked, I replied , coz its lucky for them LOL

Went back to Nong Han for a lovely Thai BBQ, where you pay by the KG for the meat and vegetables ( 230 )

All up the day cost 600 at Melon farm, 200 Fuel, 160 lottery tickets, 80 for temple gift, 30 for car park and 530 for dinner.

Square root of that , divided by the car model number, add 5 for the tyres, arrived home at 2100 hrs, so subtracted 21. Dont think im going to win anyway

I felt i was privileged and got away with 1600 all up. Lucky me 555555555

Is there a correlation between the richness of the temple and the state of its surrounding roads? I have been to some temples which were up some God (can I say that ) awful roads. With toilets to match. Yet all sorts of riches await inside the temple.

The latest lucky Kham Chanot visitor to win the lottery is an Udon lady who claimed the 48 million Baht prize. I don't keep track of such things, but I'd guess there's been a half dozen, maybe a dozen, Kham Chaot visitors in the past year or two who have won first prize. And no doubt, many more thousands of people will visit the spooked island in hopes of finding that elusive winning number.
https://udon-today.com/2018/06/01/610601-4/

unbeknown to us we had large snake living in the house for about a week, to ten days, before the missus ran into it..some little man with a pole and noose caught it, and off they went. Missus came back, and is a spiritual one when it comes to ghosts and snakes..' people say it is a lucky snake that one, that it come in our house, and say I take lotto number same of our house number and I be lucky..for days thats all I heard as lotto day neared. I will get lotto ticket our house today and win 6 million baht..ok ok..I get a phonecall from her mid morning. we win the lotto..it have our house number, but I forget to buy ticket..why I forget...later it was ; you loose because you killed the lucky snake, if left alive you would win.....bless her quest to win something in life

I don't mind my wife playing the lottery, but she's sensible enough, bar one occasion (a certainty, which wasn't), not to bet too much. But the lead up to the thing, the family/contact 'phone calls etc. on the day and the post-analysis drives me crazy. As your example, there's always an excuse why the supposed 'lucky' number didn't come up, or oh so close to the one which did! Just tell me you've won something good - that's all I want to know.

We have lucky lizards, bees, snakes and heaven knows what else and on the day of the draw we have the usual, if I'd have bought 5479 not 9473! So unlucky! I don't think the wife has ever won anything here, thankfully she doesn't play too much and she won a £1000 on the postcode lottery a couple of months ago so I guess she's up a little bit.

maaka wrote: ↑

June 2, 2018, 5:16 pm

unbeknown to us we had large snake living in the house for about a week, to ten days, before the missus ran into it..some little man with a pole and noose caught it, and off they went. Missus came back, and is a spiritual one when it comes to ghosts and snakes..' people say it is a lucky snake that one, that it come in our house, and say I take lotto number same of our house number and I be lucky..for days thats all I heard as lotto day neared. I will get lotto ticket our house today and win 6 million baht..ok ok..I get a phonecall from her mid morning. we win the lotto..it have our house number, but I forget to buy ticket..why I forget...later it was ; you loose because you killed the lucky snake, if left alive you would win.....bless her quest to win something in life

Too funny. Reminded me of my Rhodesian buddy's snake escapade in Pattaya many years ago. While upstairs in his 'eerie', he heard the mother in law and mae bahn having a cow downstairs, screaming "Ngoo! Ngoo!" So he saunters down the stairs to see a cobra in the lounge. already rattled enough to be in the strike position. Being from farming stock and ex-army, he quietly went back upstairs and got his bush knife. After herding the hysterical women out of the room, he walked up to the snake and with a deft flick of the wrist, lopped it's head off.

The ladies histrionics only increased which had him totally perplexed until his wife came home, caught up with what had happened... and after explaining what a bad thing he's done, joined in the condemnation of his act. As he saw it, it was akin to the combination of the walking under a ladder in the while opening an umbrella in the house and breaking a mirror while having your path crossed by a black cat... times ten.

You'd think after all these years, I'd follow the Thai logic of picking lottery numbers. Spreading baby powder on some haunted tree or 'reading' a number on the back of some 3 meter python or treking out to KhamChaNote to ask the spirits there to clue you in on the next lottery pick.....that's old hat. But yesterday's 12 million Baht winner in Udon came up with a novel approach to picking the winner. Upon seeing the news of a horrific accident in Kamphaengphet that killed 9 people, they used the ill-fated license plate number to pick their lottery ticket. And won!
You can be sure this idea will catch on.......and is easy to do, as most every news report of an accident includes the license plate number of the vehicles involved. t.i.t.
https://www.thairath.co.th/content/1409470

watched the news this morning where they interviewed the woman from Khumpawapi who'd bought a stack of the winning tickets and won 90 million baht.. She had her husband with her and seemingly about 30-40 grinning relatives eagerly awaiting their share...

Southern Thais have been using the licence plate numbers of crashed vehicles for many, many years. My ex-wife told me it was karma. "Bad luck for crash/die so good luck for someone soon"

I may not have the numbers accurate, but apparently another near miss by my wife. The winners were something like numbers 30 and 50 and she'd bought number 40. Yes, ok dear, if you say so.

Our family had the 'lottery eel'. In the New year, my father-in-law came back one day with a swamp eel he had caught. Usual fate was to be eaten. But this one was pure golden yellow in colour (and pretty big, about half a metre, which is a good size for a swamp eel).

I said not to eat it, because it might be valuable (turns out golden swamp eels are not that rare). Anyway, it was put into a concrete tank. Next day i see my Mother-in-law praying to the eel! The full works, candles, joss sticks, flowers and some food. Wife just said it was for good luck. A week later, she won the lottery! Paying more attention now, I see M-in-L catch the eel, put it in a bowl and study it. Apparently the shape it makes would correspond to a lottery number ....

My wife then won twice ...... Unfortunately all wins were just in the few thousand baht range. Not sure how many other family members did the lottery eel but it died around Songkran from the heat and polluted water (M-in-L overfed it and the food rotted). Hopefully they won more than they spent!

Brian Davis wrote: ↑

November 3, 2018, 9:31 am

I may not have the numbers accurate, but apparently another near miss by my wife. The winners were something like numbers 30 and 50 and she'd bought number 40. Yes, ok dear, if you say so.

I know how that goes. The concept that close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades is lost here. If I had 1000 baht for every time Mrs tam has been close, I would be able to fund my bloody retirement extension!

tamada wrote: ↑

November 6, 2018, 5:36 pm

Brian Davis wrote: ↑

November 3, 2018, 9:31 am

I may not have the numbers accurate, but apparently another near miss by my wife. The winners were something like numbers 30 and 50 and she'd bought number 40. Yes, ok dear, if you say so.

I know how that goes. The concept that close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades is lost here. If I had 1000 baht for every time Mrs tam has been close, I would be able to fund my bloody retirement extension!

Funny article by the well-known Andrew Biggs in the Bangkok Post. Like this guy.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/s ... in-a-dream.

He highlights the craziness, which I often argue about with my wife. Words were also recently exchanged on the Thai's inability to break-off eating, which Biggs also refers to. I'll draw the article to her attention later, but I predict there'll be some kind of explanation or excuse.

Funny that. I dreamed last night that 41 was the lotto number..must be going around.
My missus pleads every night to the pillow before sleep, to dream of the lucky number.
I gave her the winning numbers twice but she forgot to buy the tickets..
Everyday the word lotto comes into the conversation. Indeed, the niece's husband, a feuding young couple badly in debt, just won 80,000bt on the lotto, and the family went ballistic, with party, food, gold chains, and offering to the spirit world for an even bigger win please..never mind the 200,000bt debt . The money brought them all together for one happy drunken week, now its pistols at 50 paces again...but still my indoors dreams of winning with a craze..Bless her

Udon seems to be lucky in recent times. Isn't it 2 x 90 million baht wins? Goodness knows, if I was ever fortunate to win big money, I'd be tight-lipped about it, 'cause it seems those who shouted out loud, get non-stop hassle.

Brian Davis wrote: ↑

November 21, 2018, 10:37 am

Udon seems to be lucky in recent times. Isn't it 2 x 90 million baht wins? Goodness knows, if I was ever fortunate to win big money, I'd be tight-lipped about it, 'cause it seems those who shouted out loud, get non-stop hassle.

Yes, keep it all hush hush but we'd probably have to kill the sister-in-law to ensure that. But the ensuing hassle of publicity is common enough in the west where it's relatively easy to spot the fake relatives. I can't even tell the genuine ones here so it would be a nightmare with all these hitherto unknown sisters, uncles and cousins showing up.

I recall my dear old mum and dad always ticking the 'privacy' box when they did their weekly flutter on Littlewoods or Vernons. Beyond the odd tenner on the 'spot the ball' in the Press & Journal, they went to their graves winless.

Remember the Password and J spot the ball competing well that's for sure