Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/28/07 06:49

Ed Mullen wrote:
> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Travis Newbury
>> <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> writing in
>> news:448ed3ee-a414-402f-bd76-7225b4febbd8@g30g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> On Nov 27, 9:27 am, "nice.guy.nige" <nigel_m...@deadspam.com> wrote:
>>>>> Ah, but do you know that HAL is equal to IBM minus 1 (letter by
>>>>> letter)?
>>>> And... I had an interview at IBM in the year 2000... which is 2001
>>>> minus 1!
>>> I was born in 1957 which is 1958 minus 1! Damn! This is getting
>>> creepy...
>>>
>>
>> I was born in 1957, in February, which is March minus 1 (month).
>>
>
> I was born in 1950 which is 1 less than 1951. If you add up the
> digits in 1950 that is 15, which is 1 less than how old I was in 1966
> and adding up the digits in 1951 is 16! Omigod! If you add up the
> digits in 1966 that's 22. Which is 1 less than 23, which is when I
> got married (in 1973)! And if you add up 1973, that's 20 which is 1
> less than 21 which is 1 less than 1966 adds up to! I think I'm going
> to faint!

I was born in 1947. I have no math to add other than noting that
somewhere along the line I got 2 old. :)


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