Great post. No need for the disclaimer. It was obvious to me from the beginning. It was funny.
You have to see how people in Venezuela reason to play at the animal lottery, which is the new fashion now . 36 numbers, each assigned to an animal, plus 0 and 00 assigned to dolphin and whale. People bet 8 times a day, every hour from 9 am to 7 pm (with a 2 hour parenthesis). If you get a hen at 9, the rooster is supposed to come next, or sometime during the day. Whale or dolphin follows fish, bull follows cow and vise versa, and so on and so forth.
Then, you have crap like after alligator some feathered animal will pop out, or mouse after elephant. It's crazy. sometimes they get these matches, just because the numbers assigned to those animals have as much a chance as any other.
Yet, their system "works" for them and they spend an obscene amount of money a day, which with our economic crisis is just outrageous. But, the deeper people are in financial struggles the more they are willing to risk, i guess.