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   Nick Spalding to All   
   Re: The original lyrics were REALLY...   
   30 Dec 13 21:14:53   
   
   From: spalding@iol.ie   
      
   S. Checker wrote, in    
    on Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:06:21 -0500:   
      
   > Nick Spalding  wrote:   
   > > Alan J Rosenthal wrote, in <2013Dec29.213418.8237@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>   
   > > on 30 Dec 2013 02:34:18 GMT:   
   > >> Indeed it was.  Google "afu ages list" (better with the quotes).   
   > >   
   > > I last posted that here in February 2006, updating Emily Kelly's 1998 list.   
   > > Perhaps it's time again.  If anyone wants to make any amendments let me   
   know.   
   > > Should I add a couple of RIPs?   
   > >   
   > >    
   > > 1927 01 17 Brody, Albert   
   >    
   >   
   > And exactly one person on the list shares my birthday. What are the   
   > odds?   
      
   The figure I recall is that a list of 23 people is sufficient to make it odds   
   on   
   that two will share a birthday.   
   --   
   Nick Spalding   
      
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