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MM0rkeleb 
"Better than HBO."
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 Posted - 11/08/2006 : 16:49:53
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by M0rkeleb
What a coincidence! That's my birthday also.
Actually, it's not that much of a coincidence. It's a well-known counterintuitive result that you only need to get 24 or so people together before chances are better than 50-50 a pair of them share a birthday.
Happy birthday. 
But surely the 24 thing is for any unspecified pair. Given a specific person mentioning his birthday (chazbo) or given being a specific person (you), it is still a coincidence if another person out of 24 has that birthday. (I realise that you are probably a mathematician and I am asking for trouble... )
Absolutely. But I figured the unspecified pair was a better fit for this scenario, since chazbo could just have easily been anyone mentioning at any time of year that they just had a birthday. So when I called it a coincidence, I was referring more to any two fourumites (or any two participants in this round of FYCTH) sharing a birthday.
If you fix someone (which is the same thing as fixing a birthday), then you need 40 more people to get a 10% chance of sharing that birthday. So viewed from that perspective, it is a coincidence. |
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/08/2006 : 17:36:45
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Originally posted by zulu
My fav was Lemmy's "High Moon." which is very smart.
There are actually five good High Noon puns for that film!
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Salopian's "Close Encounter, Furred Kind." is clever, bravo!
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 11/08/2006 : 19:07:17
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Originally posted by Salopian
[quote]Originally posted by zulu
My fav was Lemmy's "High Moon." which is very smart.
There are actually five good High Noon puns for that film!
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 11/08/2006 : 23:04:07
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VR&VA
good round see you all in the morning
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aahaa, muahaha 
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"
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Posted - 11/09/2006 : 05:28:54
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/09/2006 : 08:52:17
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Originally posted by lemmyseven
Yes, but only one 'High Moon'.
They're all good, though (those five, not "'High Noon' in space"!) - I've voted for all five. |
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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Posted - 11/09/2006 : 18:21:49
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by lemmyseven
Yes, but only one 'High Moon'.
They're all good, though (those five, not "'High Noon' in space"!) - I've voted for all five.
Seein' as no one had done this for Keith Moon, I'm crossing my fingers for approval there. |
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FYCTH #246
