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  • The incident gave him the nickname Jackpot but, while Lewis has done well out of darts, he points out: Me a millionaire, oh no, it's the tax man.

    Evening Standard - Home Mihir Bose 2012

  • The incident gave him the nickname Jackpot but, while Lewis has done well out of darts, he points out: Me a millionaire, oh no, it's the tax man.

    Evening Standard - Home Mihir Bose 2012

  • The tendency of "Jacks-in-Office" to try to swipe the Jackpot is a human weakness which we all recognize.

    Why Do We Need Formal Organization? 1967

  • However, if there's one item of clothing you probably need for a British summer, it's something rainproof - so stay dry in style with this lovely polka dot trench coat from ethical fashion label Jackpot at fashion-conscience. com.

    Buy of the day 2010

  • In an dramatic on-stage demonstration at Black Hat, he connected remotely to an ATM and ran a program called Jackpot that caused the ATMs to spit out cash, while playing a tune and splashing the word "Jackpot" across the screen of the machine.

    Computerworld News 2010

  • In an dramatic on-stage demonstration at Black Hat, he connected remotely to an ATM and ran a program called Jackpot that caused the ATMs to spit out cash, while playing a tune and splashing the word "Jackpot" across the screen of the machine.

    ARN Daily 2010

  • After a job hosting a quiz show called Jackpot, Wogan began work for the BBC in 1967, started his breakfast show in 1970 and crept slowly into the British heart.

    ASP.NET Forums XD40_Man 2009

  • I wasn't in love with a lot of "Jackpot" -- like too much of "Life" season two, the case felt like something we could have seen on almost any other crime procedural -- but it definitely brought the funny, whether it was the meta joke about the fruit, or the self-satisfied look on Crews 'face when he realized he could stay at the lotto support group or when Erik Estrada claimed to be a fan, or the silent exchange between Reese and Crews about the heavyset con woman being a phone sex worker.

    What's Alan Watching? 2008

  • I was thinking recently how the only thing that would make the "Jackpot" storyline interesting would be if they had gone with divorce, especially if MJ was sick of Peter's dangerous superhero double life and split up with him over it, only to get powers right after though separation might be more appropriate for such a story than divorce.

    Continuity Used to Matter at Marvel | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • By the by, I think Mary Jane becoming a superhero named "Jackpot" is actually far worse of an idea than the marriage being broken up by Mephisto.

    A dumb idea … or the dumbest idea? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

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