"The Lottery results will be displayed on the site by Mon Mar 26 2012" "Please visit the site after the lottery execution"

Does anyone else remember having to read the frightening classic,
[The Lottery] by Shirley Jackson? It was about an annual lottery and subsequent execution that happened in a small town due to superstition.

I'm not sure why this was on the required reading list in elementary school but when I read the words Lottery and Execution at the top of my confirmation page,the book and the creepy story was remembered in detail.

"If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy."
-- Alvin Toffler