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cavediver Member (Idle past 3664 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
Are you joking? Any set of numbers chosen for a lottery draw are equally unlikely, that's the joke!
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3664 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
So, which number combination should she use that is not astronomically small? Clearly, any combination that's not her own.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3733 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
cavediver writes:
But everyone knows that it is luckier to use your birthday and your phone number!! Clearly, any combination that's not her own.But her numbers sound unlikely!!! Are you ignoring the logic paradox?! She needs a real philosopher to guide her out of her quandary.
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ringo Member (Idle past 432 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Panda writes:
That belongs in somebody's signature. I am only half way to being an idiot savant. "I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3664 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
But everyone knows that it is luckier to use your birthday and your phone number!! Luckier, yes. More probable, no. Admittedly the calculation is quite complex as it requires a convolution of the PDF (probability density function) and the LDF (luck distribution function), but the conclusion is that using your own details will always result in less wins that using someone else's - anyone else's.
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ringo Member (Idle past 432 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
In a thread far far away, dwise1 wrote:
quote: When I saw, "He prays for deliverance...." I immediately thought of Duelling Banjos. Be careful what you pray for. Your prayers may be answered. "I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"
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Panda Member (Idle past 3733 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
Ringo writes:
I guess it depends on which way you like your 'bread buttered'....
Be careful what you pray for. Your prayers may be answered.
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ringo Member (Idle past 432 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Panda writes:
Now that reminds me of Last Tango in Paris. I guess it depends on which way you like your 'bread buttered'.... "I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
But her numbers sound unlikely!!! Well they do. She may have a point. If she produces her numbers by breaking down that string of digits into two-digit pairs, then as the largest number in the UK National Lottery is 49, she'd be picking numbers which are guaranteed not to come up. It is possible that that's what she meant.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3733 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
Dr. A. writes:
She probably writes extra numbers on the lottery form so that she can use her birth year... she'd be picking numbers which are guaranteed not to come up. An aside:There is an interesting correlation... People that think it that it is more likely to roll 2+6+3+1 than 6+6+6+6 (on 4 dice) usually believe in astrology. I am guessing that she believed in astrology. Edited by Panda, : No reason given.
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Shield Member (Idle past 2882 days) Posts: 482 Joined:
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Edited by rbp, : No reason given.
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frako Member (Idle past 326 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
Ok to me this is humor if it is not funny to you it is not my fault.
The Ukrainian government has announced that Černobil will be open for tourists next year. So if anyone would like to get a bad case of radiation poisoning be my guests and go have a look. Who the f%&/ are they kidding it is safe to go there now, while if you want to go and have a look now you have to know some people so that you can get permission to pass the armed guards and you have to ware a radiation suit and have a Geiger counter. And next year none of that will be needed???
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Panda Member (Idle past 3733 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
frako writes:
Maybe they are trying to compete with Dignitas?
Who the f%&/ are they kidding it is safe to go there now
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nwr Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
From Salon magazine. The War on Christmas thread is currently locked, so I posted here. Edited by nwr, : fix link, as per Message 1 Jesus was a liberal hippie |
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nwr Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Chronic Christians: Did Jesus Heal with Pot? | East Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
According to pot historian Chris Bennett's chapter on Early/Ancient History in Dr. Julie Holland's The Pot Book - 2010 Park Street Press - Jesus didn't smoke pot, he rubbed it on people in the form of medicinal holy oil.
I'm posting this in the Humor thread, because
Edited by nwr, : fix broken url caused by bug - see Message 1 Jesus was a liberal hippie
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