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Hi all!
Well, I'm sure the geeks of us all know that in a room with 30 people,
there's a fairly large chance of having two people with the same birthday.
(I can explain to the non-geeks if you really want... not now though.)
Since we are well over 1000 people (1), there have to be tons of overlaps on
birthdays. So here's my question and challange:
Does *everyone* on lugnet have someone else born on their birthday? I
predict that yes, everyone can find someone with a matching birthday.
'Course this is hard to prove, and I bet not everyone will participate in
this thread, but it's worth a shot. I'll try to keep records of this.
So if you wanna see if I'm right or if you wanna prove me wrong - reply to
this post with your birth date. Year not required, but that's up to you.
Since there are both Europeans and Americans here, please type out the name
of the month, so as to avoid confusion of day/month numbers.
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I'll start off with my own:
June 25th (1984)
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Out of courtesy, please snip the rest of this message!...
Thanks, and hoping I'm right,
-Shiri
(1) 1000+ members already.
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| Jan 31st Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| Hello Shiri, You always seem to have such funny ideas (in a possitive sense). My birth was December 19th 1962. I've seen no one else in this month yet. Greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) you are probably right....I had a workmate of mine who was born on the exact same day as I was... ....and my birthdate is December 22, 1974... Benjamin Medinets (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| January 19, 1975. My best friend in college was born on January 20th, 1975, exactly one day younger than me. That's the closest I've come to finding my birthday buddy. Maybe someone here is closer. Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) 10 November 1962. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (My views do not necessarily express the views of my employer...) BRICKFEST 2001 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER... START MAKING PLANS TODAY. Card carrying (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) I fall right in between Adrian and Suz, Feb 12th, 1974 Rodney Gentry Lugnet Member #266 Woodchuck County Fire and Rescue (URL) 6571s, and still going strong :o) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| 14 May 1959 I've met 14 May people before but never the same year. As to the 30 people in a room thing, think about how to calculate the probability that NO ONE has the same birthday as anyone else. ++Lar (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| <snip> I already know my birthday buddy, it is my grandmother. :-) We were both born December 14th, I was born in 1973 but she was born several years earlier. ;-) Jude BTW the odds of 2 people having the same birthday in a room with 30 people is (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| February 3, 1961. I already have lots of Birthday Buddies: my Maternal Grandmother, my Mother-in-law and my Brother-in-law. Plus two former NFL quarterbacks: Bob Griese (Dolphins) and Fran Tarkenton (Vikings). Ken (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| 17 December 1972. Same date as the Wright Brothers' flight. In school I knew about 5 people with the same birthday as I. We're all "Irish babies" (think about it) ;] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| So here's an explanation of the probability of two people in a crowd sharing a birthdate (independent of the birth year -- and disregarding leap year birthdays): The chance of two people sharing a birthday is 1/365. This should be clear if you (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) I wasn't sure if I was supposta snip that part?!.... This year, my birthday was June 5....I'm not sure what it will be next year. So far, this is the oldest I've ever been though! Oh, and 1965, by the way. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes various stuff about birthdays which I cut. No matches for me yet here---- January 25, 1973 I have met two other birthday matches over the years and several very close almost-matches. My best friend since Jr High (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| My birthdate: February 16, 1984 By the way, anyone searching these posts for your birthday, just search through the posts with the find feature of your browser, much quicker than reading through. -Nick (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| Christmas Eve. 24 December 1971. I've only met one other person with the same birthday as me (but then the number of people of whom I ask their birthdate is pretty small) Psi (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) 5 June (1972) ... there is at least one other person here that share my birthday IIRC ... (...) Same as my mother birthday (not same year, of course 8-)) )... CiaoCiaoSergio (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| 22nd May 1964. Out of about 25 people at work, we have the 21st, 22nd and 24th of May, as well as a few others within about a 2 week period. Martin (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| June 28 (not November, as Lugnet profile has for some reason ...) Roll on next Thursday ... Metroliner for me! Metroliner for me! Metroliner for me...eeee! Metro....lin....er for me! Hip Hip ... (and if it hasn't arrived I'll let my black cat out of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Only the second August birthday so far, August 9th, 1979. Never met anyone with my birthday, but my father said he knew another Jeff with an August 9th birthday. Jeff (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| We have four members here. March 23, July 12, November 3 and December 25 (some people may remember my midnight pregnancy ramblings) Rose (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| My birthday is August 27th, 1977. I met 3 people back in High School that shared my exact birthdate, but I was the only male in that group. A few years ago I found out that I share my birthday with Pee Wee Herman (he's much older) Ben Roller (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| February 7th, 1979. Happy birthday Siri! I hope you get a lot of those presents, with that familiar sound heard when shaking them. :-) Tommy Larsson, Sweden (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| Sep 2 (...) -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support | Netscape Communications Corp | A division of AOL Time Warner | iPlanet Support - (URL) Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Haven't seen Aug 31st, yet.... And, based on what I've seen so far, only a couple of you are older than this old LEGO fan (1954). Wayne (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| November 13, 1974 Lugnet Member #.... Uhh, I dunno it yet. I applied for a membership way back at the beginning of June, paid my money via Paypal, and have heard nothing! I'll let you know, or you'll see it whenever the list of members is updated. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| Meanwhile the average age is 31 (average YOB = 1970.5, i.e. June 1970). The most common year (mode) is 1974 with 7 people, then 1971 with 6. the area of concentration is late 60s, early 70s (i.e. people 25-35). Nothing I wouldn't expect! I'll wait (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| March 17 1981 ..no matches yet! ..and since everyone else is including uninteresting comments about their birthday, I have 2 friends who share a birthday 2 days either side of me - one Mar 15 and one Mar 19 - so I don't have any problem remembering (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) No one even close to my birthday yet: January 1. 1970 (01:23 AM) - New-years baby in my part of the country, first runner up in all of Norway. For the first 6 years of school we were only 13 kids in my class, 3 of us were 0101-children, but (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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