????? Wow ???

[Wood Borer]

On Sunday I invited a fellow woodworker over so we could talk about tools and muck around with wood in my shed. The woodworker is from this BB and up until that time I had never met him before. We were total strangers.

We had a great day in the shed and this morning he sent me a PM.

He had checked out my profile on the BB and discovered an amazing coincidence - we were born on the same date including the same year! :eek:

What's the probability?

Wongo may be able give me some odds here.

Should we purchase a lottery ticket together?

[ryanarcher]

Nah, just purchase some LN tools together. they'd be a much better investment. ;) glad to hear you had a good day.

-ry

[Wood Borer]

:D :D

[Wongo]

2 odd individuals born in the same day is pretty rare. :D (Sorry brother :p ).

[Wood Borer]

How does this sound?

The person I invited over was a woodworker so that puts their age say between 10 years old to 80 years old.

For people aged 10 – 80 there are 70 X 365 = 21,900 different birth dates.

The chances of me meeting someone with a particular birth date is 1 in 21,900.

That seems to be a number divisable by 2 without any remainders which means it is an even number. Not odd at all as Wongo suggested. :)

[Zed]

Rob,

You're turning into a regular woodworking hussy... You always seem to have "a date" with someone or other from this BBS. the only other person who I know does it more is Wongo.

pair of trollops the both of yers. :D :D

I would imagine that the odds of meeting someone with your same birthday is 1 in 365.... same year; I suppose simply makes you the same age as your boyfriend!!!! are you going to "out" him or not ????? eh ??? :D

[Wood Borer]

Zed,

I can understand why you are thinking that way - you're from Sydney!! ;) ;)

Does this sort of thing happen in the jungle? :D

[Zed]

Rob,

actually from what I understand chimps are quite fond of the old in out or rubbadubdub. nothing wrong with that!

I was watching some show once upon a time and they were talking about some river in deepest darkest africa (or course) and it was wide enough for a chimp to NOT want to swim over (true story). therefore (no $h!T) 2 different types of chimps have evolved on either side of the river. One one side is the standard chimp that we all know and detest, ruled by the males and all fight and meat eating cannibals (remember this is TRUE!) and the other side (again - no $h!T) was another type of chimp and these are the "big-ar$ed" chimp, ruled by the ladies and fond of random/spontanious acts of run over and "in out, in out, off I go, that was fun" ... little violence and no cannibalsism.

I poo you not - true story.... prove me wrong and I'll buy you a beer next time your up here.

Id rather have a big @r$e meself.... sounds like more fun...

[Tankstand]

Got me thinking,

Check out the BB's calendar

August alone,

3rd....hjain + Dustmaker both 35
10th..Broady + Trevor1 both 57
..Ubeaut/Neil + L.Bubblesniffer both 56 (Probably another of Neil's aliases?)
12th..Jemoge + Silky oak both 60
13th..jijisau + tmca both 42
18th..69 Stingray + Artisan Bill both 31
31st..Sawdust + Steve Downunder both 45

I realise that some of these examples may infact be the same person using multiple memberships. And some of these names are probably inactive.

I'll let someone else check out the remaining 11 months! :D

[Kev Y.]

Mark.. whats the matter with you???? is it that dark or cold over there that you have to waste time doing searches on the BB for TWINS?

get a life .. or at least continue your hobby :D

[Gingermick]

I would imagine that the odds of meeting someone with your same birthday is 1 in 365....
Unless your born on February 29. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Tankstand]

Mark.. whats the matter with you???? is it that dark or cold over there that you have to waste time doing searches on the BB for TWINS?

get a life .. or at least continue your hobby :D

What can I say? I get an itch and I have to scratch it! :D

My quick search of August only took 5 minutes. Now if I searched the entire calendar I would agree I would need to get a life! :D :D

[Cliff Rogers]

I did a search & found these twins. :eek:

[Gumby]

I did a search & found these twins. :eek:

Twins ???

I counted 4 ! :D :eek: That's quadruplets :rolleyes:

[Cliff Rogers]

Keep counting, they won't be there very long. :D

[Jack E]

Two sets of twin air bags (or is that fun bags)!

[Zed]

cliffy - tired to give a greenie for the white pointers but.... wait until sees them....

[Stuart]

So Cliff, was that a valid attempt to get up back on topic? (Well topic heading.....)

[Wongo]

How does this sound?

The person I invited over was a woodworker so that puts their age say between 10 years old to 80 years old.

For people aged 10 – 80 there are 70 X 365 = 21,900 different birth dates.

The chances of me meeting someone with a particular birth date is 1 in 21,900.

That seems to be a number divisable by 2 without any remainders which means it is an even number. Not odd at all as Wongo suggested. :)
WB, according to your logic it should be……..

There are 71 years between age 10 and 80 and you get 1 extra day every 4 years

Hence 71 X 365.25 = 25932.75

Let’s round it up to 25933. Hmmmm it is pretty odd. :cool:

[Wood Borer]

Let’s round it up to 25933. Hmmmm it is pretty odd. :cool:

Thanks Scott for pointing out the errors in my calculation. I daresay that makes us even now as I gave you a ride home the other night!

[AlexS]

cliffy - tired to give a greenie for the white pointers but.... wait until sees them....

They aren't white pointers, they're bronze whalers :D

[shaunburgess]

But wouldn't you line up to be eaten by them!:D