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Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments. At the beginning of the 20th century, most forms of gambling, including lotteries and sweepstakes, were illegal in many countries, including the U.S.A. and most of Europe. This remained so until after World War II. In the 1960s casinos and lotteries began to appear throughout the world as a means to raise revenue in addition to taxes.
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According to the NBC news program Dateline, as of January 2006, law enforcement officials estimate that as many as 50,000 sexual predators are online at any given moment. That number has been cited by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in speeches touting the dangers of child predators. However, the origins of that figure have been questioned by Legal Times, and Dateline says it will no longer use it. Janis Wolak of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire found that many parental fears about Internet sex predators are misinterpretations of the danger.
Plot
A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice...
Keywords: anger, arranged-marriage, asian-indian, blackout, bride, caste-system, celebration, child-molester, confession, dance-lesson
The Rain is coming... and so is the Family.
[Talking to Lalit Verma in phone]::P.K. Dubey: In 10 minutes exactly and approximately!
[giving Alice his card]::P.K. Dubey: It has an address for sending mail through the computer.::Alice: Mmm. E-mail?::P.K. Dubey: You know about it?
P.K. Dubey: Millennium style, Y2K dot com.
Pimmi Verma: Have you changed your underwear?
Pimmi Verma: This wedding is driving me nuts.
Lalit Verma: These are my children, and I will protect them from myself even if I have to.
Lalit Verma: [on the phone] Dubeyji? It's Lalit Verma, who else? Very kind of you to answer.
Ria Verma: I don't think you're ready for marriage.::Aditi Verma: I just want to settle down.::Ria Verma: So what do you do? Get married to some guy selected by mummy and daddy, you've barely known him for a couple of weeks!
P.K. Dubey: If he wants the work done, he must get the cash out. The one-rupee era is over.
Lalit Verma: Computer engineers are India's biggest export.
If I gotta guess it I will
I think it's 310-143-1437
Baby if I press it then will I get to you?
Let me know, what is your number girl?
Every minute is worth a dime of spending
You can change my whole life if you fit it
Odds are, one in a billion
My heart, I bet on you if I just get your number
Girl if I put your number in my phone
I hope that it's the right one
Girl If I did then
I'm goin in tonight hon
It could mean a lot for me
I think I done hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery, baby yeah
Get on this investment cause if you bet on me
Then we can go anywhere in love it's nothing
If I leave a message I hope that it goes through
Let me know, if I'm the one girl
Every minute is worth a dime of spending
You can change my whole life if you fit it
Odds are, one in a billion
My heart, I bet on you if I just get your number
Girl if I put your number in my phone
I hope that it's the right one
Girl If I did then
I'm goin in tonight hon
It could mean a lot for me
I think I done hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery...
If you choose me (Girl I promise)
If you choose (I'll be honest)
If you choose me (Won't abuse it)
If you choose me
And if you choose me
if you choose me
And if you, if you choose me
And if you choose (I'mma love you)
Girl if I put your number in my phone
I hope that it's the right one
Girl If I did then
I'm goin in tonight hon
It could mean a lot for me
I think I done hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery, baby yeah
(Can I get your number?)
Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah
Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah
Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah
Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Too much money on me
None of these haters get money out of me
But them bitches love that shit though
Niggas hatin’ on me like I just hit the lottery
Getting real money, all them hustlers say they proud of
me
Bitches all on me like I just hit the lottery
Heard them niggas talk ‘n’ watchin’, don’t know,
probably
Insane money like I just hit the lottery
50 grand on me like I just hit the lottery
20 bottles on the way, motherfucker bottle fee
Way I’m blowin’ money you would think I won the lottery
Ok I’m motherfuck’n these niggas, motherfuck’n these
bitches
I’m clinchin’ on my nuts, that purp smokin’ I swishin’
Don’t chase none with my lick
Whole 16 in my pistol
I’m getting money, they know it
Buy 30 grand when I’m holdin’
Just show me nigga he ballin’
You Pee Wee and I’m Stalin
You german lenin’, I’m jawdin’
You ice cold and I’m Stalin
Got a family ghost, no rent
That bitch cost me a grip
Like a lot of ass in them hips
And that ass sittin’ on blim
It look like I won the lottery
Shittin’ on ‘em, no apologies
Wipe my ass with your economy
Cuz I burn money, no calories
Say lame niggas keep hatin’
New money my fragrance
Red bottles from Asia
Ass sittin’ bodacious ahh
Niggas hatin’ on me like I just hit the lottery
Getting real money, all them hustlers say they proud of
me
Bitches all on me like I just hit the lottery
Heard them niggas talk ‘n’ watchin’, don’t know,
probably
Insane money like I just hit the lottery
50 grand on me like I just hit the lottery
20 bottles on the way, motherfucker bottle fee
Way I’m blowin’ money you would think I won the lottery
Got the granit counter tops with the marble floors
Getting money, Lionel Richie, no camma doors
So what? I fucked you bitch but wutchu callin’ fo’?
Small thing to a giant , call me dinosaur
Them hatin’ niggas let me sour I make lemonade
Buy expensive things, leavin’ my women paid
She bring her freaky friends over, let me penetrate
Poppin’ pills, fuck ‘em while they rollin’ then they
skate
Fuck but the niggas is tryna get paid
Her measure that’s my taste, couple mill for the crib I
stay
Damn it nigga ballin’ like I’m in the league
On some bullshit, call me Scotty P
Niggas hatin’ on me like I just hit the lottery
Getting real money, all them hustlers say they proud of
me
Bitches all on me like I just hit the lottery
Heard them niggas talk ‘n’ watchin’, don’t know,
probably
Insane money like I just hit the lottery
50 grand on me like I just hit the lottery
20 bottles on the way, motherfucker bottle fee
Way I’m blowin’ money you would think I won the lottery
Ok I’m runnin’ ‘round and I’m getting it
Couple grand on my dickies
Pocket full of them hundreds
With a fat bag of that sticky
That yella bitchin’ of vickles
And she gotta be thinkin’ so pinky
If she fuckin’ with me she winnin’
That pussy good and I’m spendin’
Got big money, I blow it
Oh look mama, it’s snowin’
Them whips who drivin’ that foreign
Threw a quarter mill cuz it’s borin’
Got blood under my sneakers
It’s 10k for my feature
Your bitch in love with my features
If I like your chick I might keep ‘er
It looks like I hit the lottery
Neck worth about a quarter ki
Legs trippin’, goin’ overseas
Name another nigga high, that’s me
Niggas hatin’ on me like I just hit the lottery
Getting real money, all them hustlers say they proud of
me
Bitches all on me like I just hit the lottery
Heard them niggas talk ‘n’ watchin’, don’t know,
probably
Insane money like I just hit the lottery
50 grand on me like I just hit the lottery
20 bottles on the way, motherfucker bottle fee
Way I’m blowin’ money you would think I won the lottery
Misfortune, got you like a sickness
the saints and angels all agree
trouble sure as trouble sees it
I need it in writing to believe
to believe
the target was your heart in the beginning
now there digging soft ground for your grave
I hope the mourners will bring plastic flowers
they'll drink to your death with pink champagne
pink champagne
now I hear your widow crying
her weaping I made into this song
it's popular with the disco dancers
they'll play it on the radio all week long
all week long
misfortune, got you like a sickness
and the saints, the angels all agree
trouble sure as trouble sees it
I need it in writing to believe
She moved out west because she had to feel the sun
her little dresses that she wears came with her too
it's complicated but
I'm really just a pawn
once he's there I cant forget
that I'm all alone.
I shoulda known, I shoulda known better that your..
your cheating heart; it doesn't really matter cause it
fell apart with all the other irony.
Cause I lost it all on the lottery
and I risked it all to give you away.
And I can't forget all the times I've said
I should've known, I should've known better.
I'll run the record shop if you can go to school.
Take care what you can get
that's the golden rule.
And I can't disguise the colors that you bend
just when I think it's right,
that's the way it ends.
I shoulda known, I shoulda known better that your..
your cheating heart; it doesn't really matter cause it
fell apart with all the other irony.
Cause I lost it all on the lottery
and I risked it all to give you away.
And I can't forget all the times I've said
I should've known, I should've known better.
And I hate my life
so before it starts to go,
before I die I'd like to let you know
that I can't lie.
So bide your time
and breath another breath
and I'll be done before you say goodbye.
Cause I lost it all on the lottery
and I risked it all to give you away.
And I can't forget all the times I've said
I should've known, I should've known better.
Cause I lost it all on the lottery
and I risked it all to give you away.
And I can't forget all the times I've said
I should've known, I should've known better.
I should've known, I should've known better.
Drop a quarter in a dime-size slot.
Pick a number as you scratch your cards.
Double down crossing number off.
Play to win always lose your thoughts.
Roll the bones is the game I've only known.
Hitting back is the fact that I broke your bones.
Born to lose as I look at my tired face.
Aware of what my mind could trace.
Blow a line, draw a lie inside the crimes.
Play to win always lose your thoughts.
Roll the bones is the game I've only known.
Hitting back is the fact that I broke your bones.
Roll the bones is the game I've only known.
Hitting back is the fact that I broke your bones.
Drop a quarter in a dime-size slot.
Pick a number as you scratch your cards.
Double down crossing number off.
(Stevie Stevie)
(Oh oh)
I'm a take a chance on u
(Oh oh)
Huuu
Never been the type to gamble
But I've never met a girl like u
Never opened up my heart before
Cause I thought I had too much to lose
[Hook:]
But I'm tired of living life alone
Need a girl that I can call my own
So I'm gonna give up everything
So try to win
[Chorus:]
Gonna play this like the lottery
Don't know if I'm win or lose
Just like the lottery
Girl I'm a put my money on u
If I get it right, I can change my life
I'm tired of all these lonely nights
Just like the lottery
Girl I'm a take a chance
I'm a take a chance on u
(Oh wo oh wo) I'm a take a chance on u
(Oh wo oh wo) I'm a take a chance on u
(Oh wo oh wo) I'm a take a chance on u
(Oh wo oh wo)
Never believed in fairy tales
Never thought dreams could come true
But u could be my lucky number girl
Got me all opinions winning on u
[Hook]
[Chorus]
It's the risk I'm gonna take for love
(I'll do whatever girl)
Cause I think that u could be the one
I don't care what people say
(They don't know about us)
Baby I'm ready to play
(I'll put my trust in that)
Could u be what I've been waiting for
i guess you're having a party tonight
i wasn't invited, but that's alright
i heard about it anyway
i might stop by, but i doubt i'll stay
cause i can't eat
and i'm having trouble getting to sleep
and i'm seeing double
it's no mystery and
what do you think's going on with me
and i can't fully understand
how you got the upper hand
i guess you got control of me
you played me like the lottery
i pulled into your yard last night
you saw my car you turned out the lights
it doesn't matter anyway
i wasn't even gonna stay
well, i just stopped by to drop off these
pictures of my broken knees
i guess you won't be needing these
and i can't fully understand
how you got the upper hand
i guess you got control of me
you played me like the lottery
i followed you to where you were
and now i feel like some kind of jerk
cause you turned around and saw me there
and all i did was stand and stare
you probably think i'm just a pest
hanging around your circulation desk
i guess i'll go on home
where once again i can be alone
and i can't fully understand
how you got the upper hand
i guess you got control of me
you played me like the lottery
Its another R.O.
Play another slow jam
This time make it sweet
On a slow jam for my baby
And for me
Imma set the mood right yea you know I got it bad
Turn out the lights turn on that Betty Pinagrass
I'm kissing and touchin been missin ya lovin
Im here to discover everything we been discussin
You know I keep my ladies straight
A bubble bath then I light up a candle and turn on sum Baby Face
I wanna know like Joe how everything go
I play that R. Kelly keep it on the down low
Never mind all that talk you had wit your friends
This isn't the end of the world girl that boys the man
Dont worry about a thing you know Im gon play it right
We can take our time and listen to Brian McKnight
I'll smooth it out see no tellin whats next
I got you twisted like you listenin to Keith Sweat
And I see us walkin hand-in-hand
Let me be your man and listen to slow jams
I been chasing this paper you know I had that hardest day
So I say lets get it one like Marvin Gay
Aint no need to procrastinate for this satisfaction
Cause you get it any time like Janet Jackson
We gone be forever girl I give you what you dream
Lets stay together and grind tell smilin
I hear your in desperate need for what Im packin
So I hope you breath again girl like Tony Praxton
And you know the way Im feelin is plain to see
Lets take a private plan listen to Tina Marie
Steppin of the jet, be flyin coast to coast
You can be my super star like Luther Van Trost
Its some joy and pain we havin our days
But I never let you down like Frankie Beverly and Mace
And I see us walkin hand-in-hand
Let me be your man and listen to slow jams
See I was all alone I was feelin rather low I needed someone to
Get my spare time so I called you on the phone
To see if you were home but thats when you said
You where on your way you were finin for me
Strangers wait for their chance to be safe
At home saying grace
Night falls and the winter air winds through
Cracked windows inviting the intrude
We wait for the lottery
We wait in vain
We wait for our chance to be safe
We wait in vain
How much more time do you have to waste?
Of your mortality
This is your life, live it while you can
There are no guarantees
We wait for the lottery
We wait in vain
We wait for our chance to be safe
We wait in vain