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As an aside to this ... who is the oldest among us?
In case you're shy : anyone over sixty? over seventy?
If you admit to one of those we could get down to brass tacks : month, day, year.
Sorry dear. I don't have birthdays, I have a use-by date. That was 20/07/1971. Yes, Yankophiles, we do the day and month ass-backwards. Why that particular date? A good question!
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On another board I occasionally contribute to we take the names of authors and their characters. I couldn't possibly live up to Darcy so I took the name Bingley Austen. I decided I liked Bingley, so now I use it for all online purposes.
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When I was in highschool, I played D&D with friends. I needed a name for a character, and I rolled dice. I got Xar doing that, added the 'a' to make it more fem, and found a name I liked. I later learned from a friend from Greece that xara means happiness in Greek. What better name could you ask for? 
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In case you're shy : anyone over sixty? over seventy?
If you admit to one of those we could get down to brass tacks : month, day, year.
OK, I'll happily admit to seventy-plus. Before I come completely clean, though, I noticed that Capital's use-by date (I'm not going to try to guess its significance) happens to be very close to my own birthday (21/7). I am told that a group of twenty or so (I think) people will contain at least one example of a common birthday (day-month only, of course). How many other 21/7's do we have? Who do I have to remember to tell Happy Birthday to in July?
sakezuki lusy (Enigma wants to replace OK with Okamoto! Where on earth did he dredge that up?)
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I'll happily admit to seventy-plus : says lusy Me, too, lusy, over 70 but a February child. Glad there is another mature adult lurking!  WOW
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>I am told that a group of twenty or so (I think) people will contain at least one example of a common birthday (day-month only, of course). You're on the right track, lusy, but the word "will" is dangerous, statistically speaking. Ignoring 29 Feb birthday deviants , you'd need 366 people to be certain that two would share a birthday. A group of 23 or more people has a better than even chance that two people will share a birthday. Maths teachers love testing this out on an unsuspecting class, because with a class size of 30, the probability of a shared birthday jumps to 70%, with 40 pupils it's 90%. I won't go into the maths behind it, but you could check out http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_11_23_98.html
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A group of 23 or more people has a better than even chance that two people will share a birthday.
Yeah, thanks Marty, you're right of course, and that's what I really meant to say. In fact I originally had written along the lines of: "you could make money ... etc, etc." The person who first told me this, years ago, claimed to be well ahead of the game by using this in various pubs with an appropriate number of people present!
I'll follow your link gladly. The last time I tried to work it out to prove it to someone I got hopelessly lost in the process—at least I now know the number is 23!
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well i'm a mayday child-- born on the first of may- i'll leave the year off off-- I remain 47
but there are no big celebrations here in states for mayday-- no may poles, or morris dancers, or military parades.
I have friend born on may 30-- it wasn't till he started school that he realised that it was a holiday, and not everyone getting together for parades and picnics just to celebrate his birthday! (may 30 memorial day/ honoring end of US civil war)
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of Troy wrote : but there are no big celebrations here in states for mayday-- Oh, Dear of Troy, Save your dimes and go to Hawaii for the First of May which, there, is "LEI DAY" and it is a super-dooper day. People are given lei or buy for themselves. The types of lei vary greatly and you see some amazing lei. Sometimes a Boss will give a lei to all in an ofice. The neck lei are not the only ones worn that day, the head lei is also to be seen. There is a lei making competition and the magnificent results are displayed at Kapiolani Park. You'd love it! Aloha, wow
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go to Hawaii for the First of May...So presumably the tourist marketing department has already run through the variants of "Come to Hawaii and get lei'd"
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