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and we both move to the same town (Lexington Ky) We jsut laugh when we see each other, still havent talked to him though

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You should at least make the effort to say hello .

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I'm at Square One in Toronto. It's a huge mall. I'm buying a present for my gf at the body shop.

Later that night, I'm at an arcade playing games. I get a little thirsty, so I leave and walk across the street to a starbucks. The guy working the counter is flaming gay. I order my drink and he keeps looking at me funny. After a few seconds, he tells me about how he was standing in line behind me at the body shop, then proceeds to hit on me while I internally freak out about a gay stalker.


I grew up in Ohio and moved to Illinois at 16. I got to be friends with a girl living on my block. When we left for college, she went to Ohio. She ended up dating a guy I grew up with and now hangs out with a group of kids I know, who all went to my old high school.

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You seem a little overly edgy with regards to our flaming brothers. What's the deal?

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You seem a little overly edgy with regards to our flaming brothers. What's the deal?

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One only needs to analyze the content of his response combined with his avatar, and... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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If you put 20 people in a room, the odds of at least 2 of the people having the same birthday are suprisingly high.

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Yup.

23 people gives you a 50% chance. IIRC 50 people means its 99% likely that 2 share the same birthday.

FWIW my birthday is July 14th. I'm gonna see my daddy for the first time on July 14th.

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can you show the math please?

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I think you can get it a couple ways, using Cr(20,2) a simple combo fuction like that.

I just do this though. 20!/365

which is 20+19+18..../365
Just all the individual probablities of nobody having the same birthday.

and its about 180.

only 2 outcomes someone shares a birthday, or they dont.
So if its 50% it = 50-50

To tired to type more thats the jist.



I am sure you can find a good clean formula on the net somewhere if ya want though.

blake

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If "More Than a Feeling" wasn't followed by "Dust in the Wind" or "Point of No Return," then this story sucks.

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everybody does confuse boston and kansas as bands though...

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and we both move to the same town (Lexington Ky) We jsut laugh when we see each other, still havent talked to him though

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Hello Lexington Brian. Where do you play at in Lex?

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Been so long since I've logged in that I think my account was inactivated, or I lost it or somethin....but had such a good one for this thread, that I reregistered....

The one and only time I have been called for jury duty was the same week that I was primary witness in a felony case.

Yes, the case I was to testify in was the same trial that were drawing from the jury pool that I had been called to join.

The clerk had never seen it happened before and really did believe me when I said I would not be able to be an objective, neutral jury member. She said she'd heard the excuse millions of times, and for once she believed it. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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If "More Than a Feeling" wasn't followed by "Dust in the Wind" or "Point of No Return," then this story sucks.

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everybody does confuse boston and kansas as bands though...

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Yeah....uh......not me though...... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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FWIW my birthday is July 14th. I'm gonna see my daddy for the first time on July 14th.

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I feel like I am the only person in this entire thread get what movie this was from within like 2 seconds of reading that sentance.

Man I watch too much TV

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FWIW my birthday is July 14th. I'm gonna see my daddy for the first time on July 14th.

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I feel like I am the only person in this entire thread get what movie this was from within like 2 seconds of reading that sentance.

Man I watch too much TV

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ConAir, right? I think the more likely explanation is that nobody cared.

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When I was younger I was on this game show. Kids vs. Adults. We were trying to break the record for longest run by the kids team. Some day I'll type up the whole story about everything that happened (lots of crazy people involved, he had an estranged daughter who was a coke head but ended up meeting a cop when he came to her apt in a response to a noise complaint). I'd like to get it all written down anyway because he died in the middle of a show, this is just to remind me to do it.

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A guy I met 7 months ago through a mutual friend has had been with romantically 4/5 girls that I have and vice versa.......We laugh about it....but its quite funny that all my ex's he fancies and vice versa...

We just have good taste I imagine...

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Being told by a friend who met a girl on a semester abroad that if I ever met her I would fall in love with her then meeting her on a summer research program and falling in love. We had a four-year relationship and we'd still be together if I wasn't a dumbass.

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One time, when I was a kid, my dad and I were driving home from Redding, CA (about a 5 hour drive) and we followed a car for about the last 3+ hours of the trip all of the way to about a mile from our house. They took the same exit, and maybe the first 4 or so surface streets as we did. They must have been tripping out.

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one weekend in high school I was taking a shower in the afternoon. While in the shower I was listening to music, 311 to be exact. I let my mind wander and realized I hadn't talked to this one chick I knew, Stacy, in a long time. Months. I decided I should probably call her.

I get out of the shower and on the answering machine is a message from Stacy. She had called while I was in the shower. At what time? 3:11.

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The concert I went to the other night was on "Williston Street" and I go to a school named Williston.

A kid in my dorm has a shirt that says "Brown Trout" on it. Weiiiiiiiiiird.

Edit- also my roomate from retard school #1 also is a repeat junior at williston this year.

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2 that come to mind.

I was scaling down the side of some rocky crag in Portugal to get to a deserted beach when I see these two women. Hear them speaking English so we acknowledge each other. Turns out they are my Aunts neighbors.

Second one, I am driving with my father on a highway. We are approaching two guys on motorcycles, when we are about 20 feet behind them my father lifts his hand and makes it into a gun shape and pretends to fire off a shot. Instantaneously, one of the guys falls right off the bike [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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I just remembered this one on OOT!

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in grade 6 i moved out west. on september 11th it was my birthday in class and there was this other fellow who also had the same birthday. we started talking and it turned out he was also born in calgary, alberta and his parents had the same name as my parents.

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My dad's father was a legionaire. He was reported MIA during the famous battle of Dien Bien Fu (Indochina Independance war). We never knew what happened to him. A few years back, the french television showed some never seen before footage of the war for the anniversary if this infamous battle. My grand mother recognized my grand father laying on a stretcher looking badly hurt. She was in shock. She got the footage and upon closer inspection, we realized that it was in fact him. She tried to get answers from the french military but his file is classified.

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Bump. I was driving today, and a tow truck pulls up next to me. The two cars it's towing? A green '00 Taurus, the color and model I now drive, and a gray '97 Grand Am, the color and model my ex drove when we out in 1999-2000.

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There are no small coincidences and big coincidences! No, there are only coincidences!

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How about that there are 3 of us in my family (extended) that have the same first & last name (one has same initial), all born on consecutive days of the same month (diff years of course).

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I was flying to Pittsburgh from DFW and my dad was flying from Milwaukee to DFW we both ended up having layovers at Chicago Midway at the same time. My dad didn't know this was going to happen so I met him at his gate and he had no idea how I was there and couldn't figure out what was going on.

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I amm driving down the street after dropping off the gf in high school. The horn in my car hasn't worked in months.
So I say out (alone) as I hold the horn down....I'll start going to church again if god fixes my horn.
Instantly.
I got over it though.

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Okay, long story, but if you can follow it, it's pretty neat.

It's the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college. I'm moving out of the dorms and into an off campus apartment but when the story starts I'm at home.

My friend from home in my high school went to a different college than me and tells me that his friend that he met at said college was transferring to my college. Lets call this guy "fred." So my friend from HS asks me if he can give my AOL name to Fred so he can ask me about the school. I say yes and I talk to Fred once online during the summer for about 30 minutes about my school(the one he is transferring to). I didn't talk to him again until the semester started.

Okay, that's one part. During sophomore year, my roomate's friend from his hometown (we'll call him jack) decides to come up and visit for a weekend of partying. Jack used to go to college but dropped out and is currently working. Jack decides he wants to be with all of us cool people up at school and transfers to my school for the upcoming fall semester.

Fast forward to the beginning of the year. I go to Jack's dorm room for a bit during a break in my classes. He has hardly seen any of his roomates yet because school just literally started and they're all busy. One of his suitemate's computer is out in the common room and he's just looking at it and sees my screen name on his AOL buddy list. Turns out it was Fred who we would meet later.

Sorta weird. Also, my school isn't small. We have over 10k undergrads.

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"It's a Small World" Coincidence:

While growing up, I lived in Turkey for 5 years. One of my best friends in school there was a kid named Mike. Long story short, my family moved back to the States, his moved on to Indonesia, we lost touch. No big deal.

Five years later I'm in my HS English class here in Maryland and notice a new kid to the school walk into the classroom carrying a Jakarta International School gym bag. From our brief attempt at correspondence, I know that this is where Mike attended school after moving to Indonesia. Just for the hell of it, I ask this kid if he knew Mike.

He & Mike were close friends in Jakarta.

More Normal-life Coincidence:

My day job is delivering flowers for a local florist. A good percentage of our deliveries go to funeral homes and churches. On one particular route, I was going to one of each.

As I pulled into the parking lot of the church, the radio started playing AC/DC's "Highway to Hell". About 20 minutes later, as I drove up to the flower delivery room at the funeral home, the dj started up Guns N' Roses "I Used To Love Her".

Poker Coincidence:

Playing Party poker, 3/6 if memory serves, full ring. It's a particularly good table and so of course I'm running cold. A loose passive player limps, a loose aggressive player raises, a loose player coldcalls, and I 3-bet in the CO with pocket tens. Loose, bad SB coldcalls, it gets to the TAG in the BB who sits there pondering for about 10 seconds. Finally, I type in the chat box "I'm just gonna flop quads, but go ahead and call if you must". BB eventually folds, everyone else calls.

Flop: TT7.

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Here's a blast from the past, also shows how I first acquired the fonz avatar: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showth...page=0&vc=1

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Down in Jacksonville for the Florida/Georgia game. I'm staying with some friends at a resort on Amelia Island which is about 40 minutes from Jacksonville.

Go to the resort bar Friday night and end up partying with some other guys from Athens. Stayed up way to late, went back to the room, and then was kept up half the night from the noises coming from the guy in the condo nextdoor bangin some chick.

Day of the game we are searching all over downtown Jacksonville for the people we are tailgating with. We finally find the tailgate, and the guys we were partying with the night before are parked right next to it. We got a kick out of this, but then I tell them I was tired because some dude was nailing a chick nextdoor. Turns out, that was one of the guys and they were staying in the condo next door.

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My birthday is May 11, 1981.
My dad was born on May 11, 1949.
My Grandparents were married on May 11, 1945.
There are a few cousins in the family born on May 11th.
I lost my virginity to a girl that was born on May 11, 1982.


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No fair, you used the same one twice.

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Dude, a few years back I was in like a mental institution (don't ask) and there was like this one crazy guy who just kept repeating this same set of numbers over and over. So, when I get out I play those numbers in the lotto. Dude, I won $156 million!! Soon after all this bad stuff kept happening, dude, it was like I was cursed by these numbers.

Then I was flying from Sydney to LA and my plane crashed on some deserted island in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Dude, there were like 42 survivors! Then, 30 days after we crashed we come across this weird hatch in the ground. Dude, dude, I'm starving. But that's not the coincidence! Dude, the same numbers I won the lotto with were carved ON the door of the hatch halfway across the world!!!

Later,
Hurley

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junior year of high school, I spoke on AIM with a guy who wanted to buy my guitar. (I wanted $150 for an RG220, he offered $70, no thanks.) He lived on my floor freshman year.

what's also funny is that I spoke with him through the screenname of a girl I had met online. I never told him we met online.

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I lived in Sun Valley, Idaho for about 7 years. Once, I rented 'Terminator 2', watched about half, then fell asleep. Next morning, woke up and watched the rest. Then went to get my day of skiing in, get to the Warm Springs lift line, and who do I see? Ah-nold.

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I lived in Sun Valley, Idaho for about 7 years. Once, I rented 'Terminator 2', watched about half, then fell asleep. Next morning, woke up and watched the rest. Then went to get my day of skiing in, get to the Warm Springs lift line, and who do I see? Ah-nold.

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We move. Five meter spread. No sound.

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-I was born at 10:54 AM
-My street address growing up was 1054
-I passed my drivers test and signed the papers at exactly
10:54 on my birthday.
-I look at the clock at 10:54 (AM or PM) randomly and frequently, and it occurs in spurts; last month I must have seen it 25 times without trying.

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My birthday is May 11, 1981.
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When I was in elementary school, I ran into one of my best friends at Disney World. We both lived in Michigan at the time.

I was at a colluge friend's 4th of July party at his place in Chicago and a girl I went to high school with was there. It turned out she worked with my friend's girlfriend.

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It seems that everytime I think to look at my odometer while driving, the last digits are 66. I can't count the number of times this has happened over the last few years. It's kinda creepy.

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It seems that everytime I think to look at my odometer while driving, the last digits are 66. I can't count the number of times this has happened over the last few years. It's kinda creepy.

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whenever I look at a digital clock the minute is changing. human beings have a tendency to notice coincidences like this. the lowest frequency I can put on it is about 1 in like 7-8, but it feels like every other time. I think I'm just the chosen one or something and this is the matrix's way of telling me.