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Re: Find your Birthday Buddy
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lugnet.people
Date: 
Sun, 8 Jul 2001 03:30:40 GMT
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Mine is March 14, 1984
Don't think anyone else has that yet.

Ryan

In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> XFUT lugnet.people
> 
> 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.
> 
> ----
> 
> I'll start off with my own:
> 
> June 25th (1984)
> 
> ----
> 
> 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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XFUT lugnet.people 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 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people) !! 

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