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- MTessa, on 07/18/2008, -5/+79So Bush had equal odds of being hit by airline debris. Damn it!
- MarkDenali, on 07/18/2008, -6/+66"so you're saying I have a chance!"-floyd christmas
- average650, on 07/18/2008, -1/+53"I think we need to keep things in perspective and ignore the commercials that tell you to start dreaming about the millions you’re going to win in the lottery. Actually, just ignore TV altogether. While they’re busy recalling every vegetable for fear of salmonella, no one is mentioning the fact that you’re more likely to die of appendicitis than salmonella. How many people do you know who’ve died from appendicitis? The moral here? Eat your vegetables and don’t play the lottery."
From the last paragraph, haha - minjae0810, on 07/19/2008, -2/+47the odds are 1,3,5,7,9 and so on.
the rest are the evens - dkmccue, on 07/19/2008, -1/+45Odds that I will ever read another article by this person:
1 in 25,983,623,476,312 - uptwolait, on 07/18/2008, -2/+38I think some of these need some additional qualifying statements, like "Odds of writing a New York Times best seller [if you are a writer]: 1 in 220"
I don't think my comments on Digg have a 1 in 220 shot of getting me on that list. - WallnutBoy, on 07/18/2008, -1/+33and yet the odds of me getting any action....
..='( - sandersdamnit, on 07/18/2008, -0/+30Lloyd Christmas
- CaptainEO, on 07/19/2008, -0/+28The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
- gr00vy, on 07/19/2008, -0/+26Odds of becoming president: 1 in 10,000,000 ?!??!?
***** - CobaltBlue, on 07/19/2008, -2/+24Never tell me the odds.
- floridiot2, on 07/19/2008, -0/+19A baby is the worst STD.
- dekuscrub, on 07/19/2008, -4/+22You botched the quote and the character's name. Nice job.
- Guzzz, on 07/19/2008, -1/+19AIDS is not the only STD.
- 2balls1cup, on 07/19/2008, -0/+16virgin
- PabloIV, on 07/19/2008, -0/+15dude the odds of getting a fertile woman pregnant, even during the best days of the month are never 1:1
- Scienceisfun, on 07/19/2008, -1/+140.00416%.
- cutright, on 07/19/2008, -2/+15I don't know... 64% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway.
- publiclurker, on 07/19/2008, -3/+16Never tell me the odds.
- publiclurker, on 07/19/2008, -0/+12As long as it causes about as much financial harm as buying a candy bar, for instance, no harm at all. Some people, however, spend hundreds that they can't afford.
- inactive, on 07/19/2008, -1/+13Something about the name DivineCaroline just really gets under my skin...
- bxblox, on 07/19/2008, -3/+14Odds of performing a successful jab-hook-uppercut abortion: 1:2
- blackpen2008, on 07/19/2008, -0/+11soooo false
- errorunknown, on 07/18/2008, -4/+15Odds of getting a woman pregnant: 1 in 1
- BossKey, on 07/19/2008, -2/+13"Never tell me the odds!"
- Han Solo - charlie763, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10[Citation needed]
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -8/+17"Odds of getting AIDS from heterosexual sex without using a condom: 1 in 5,000,000"
It's not that bad, I might end up not using condoms after all. - Osirus1156, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9"Odds of dying from contact with hot tap water: 1 in 5,005,564"
Wtf? - h0ser, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9The odds that this article was accurate are about 1 in 65 million.
- duggdowncatisad, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9Odds of a digger marrying a millionaire: 1 in
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Source Text Unavailable. - errorunknown, on 07/18/2008, -0/+8I'll take my chances
- HeyArnold, on 07/19/2008, -3/+11GOD DAMMIT!
how many times do i need to bury stories from "devinecaroline" before it goes away forever?!
What if you catch your statistically probable millionaire boyfriend looking at porn? OH NOES!
its like the site's got PMS 24/7.
sorry, had to be said. - NathanielJ, on 07/19/2008, -0/+70.0041666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666...%
- Vali585, on 07/18/2008, -0/+7It isn't the appendicitis that gets you anyway, it is the peritonitis. I speak from experience. Wonder what the odds of having a life after death experience are?
- theguesser10, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7Like 1 in 2 or something?
- Wolfboy, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7Odds of [citation needed]: 1 in 1
- netneutrality, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7Averaging 10 ~ 15 presidents per lifetime maybe, about 1 in 25 m, although that doesn't factor in that the population increases over time.
- TrevorBelmont, on 07/19/2008, -2/+8"That’s why I laugh at my friends who buy lottery tickets"
My comment to everyone who says annoying things like this about the lotto and those who play it: Well, someone's gonna win it eventually and it's only a buck, so shut up. One dollar buys a lot of hope. - blurky, on 07/19/2008, -0/+6I don't get it, is this a joke?
Where is she coming up with these numbers. Odds of getting AIDS from heterosexual sex, without using a condom is 1 in 5 million. If there are this many people in the US who fit that bill: say 240 million, then only 48 of them have ever gotten AIDS. WTF?
The rest are just as magical. Nice try though. - bobbi21, on 07/19/2008, -1/+6She's cherry picking stats from very different methodology. (and maybe some just making stuff up I think) I wrote above how she got the 1 in 5 million stat. It's based partly on having sex only once in your life and not having sex with anyone who sleeps around a lot. Everytime you have sex you increase your risk.
In contrast, it seems like she uses stats for dying of any cause on a plane from the bottom 25 airlines in the world... (1 in 550,000 i'm finding) and it goes to 1 in 6,000,000 if you go on a GOOD airline.
She uses yearly stats for automobile deaths (incorrect stats it seems.. On most online spam email type sources it stats her number but any reputable source says 1 in 6000ish)
She uses lifetime stats for bikes.
basically she just takes whatever stats she wants to prove whatever point she wants. Depending on how you manipulate the stats (based on per incident, per year, per lifetime, high risk group, low risk group, certain populations , etc) you can prove anything.
Dugg down for being useless and misleading - piratearggghhh, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5I think she's pulling them out of her ass.
- fpp2002, on 07/19/2008, -1/+6It's amazing that lottery players still expect to win the big jackpot with odds like that. When someone spends their hard-earned money on a lottery ticket, hoping to win the major bucks, I always tell them they're wasting their money. They always tell me, "Yeah, but SOMEBODY always wins!" And I always respond, "Yes, but it's never YOU".
- CobaltBlue, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5Actually, in the vacuum of space, you wouldn't hear the whoosh as the asteroids pass you.
- idavidtang, on 07/19/2008, -0/+51:3 Odds it will be a trap!
- paikE, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5I'm tired of these kinds of statements. Theres a difference between probability and statistics people.
- Terrin, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5I think this article is all a conspiracy to get people to stop playing the lottery so the author can win it herself. But that's just me. Tinfoil hat at the ready...........
- Namaha, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5I hope you meant "shouldn't."
- bobbi21, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4Probably not. Most people will think that means "oh all i have to do is send a letter to the new york times about my day for the next 220 days and I'll get be a new york times best seller!" people are dumb that way.
- 8randon, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4to the kiddies out there:
it's actually about 1 in 12 -
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