Extra cool that he died at the age of 88 years, 5 months, 21 days. (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
That's 88.48 years.
The height of Everest? 8,848 meters.

How did he manage that?

has that been snopes-ified yet?

No, I just made it up. really.
You heard it here first.

Well Everest is generally acknowledged to be 8,848 meters (some measurements differ) and I noticed the similarity when I saw he died at 88, so I checked wikipedia for his exact dates, which are 20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008. I fudged the rest.

I repeat, I fudged the math. It might be 88.48, it's certainly close.
You can check it if you care too. I couldn't be bothered.
Cheers.

actually, snopes had be proven to be an elaborate internet hoax. It was started as a joke by two teenagers who were surfing the internet whilst suspended from school. They started creating "proofs" for some of the urban myths on a website created by a friend of theirs, and the project snowballed. They randomly picked stories to reject to increase the perceived validity of the site, using 12-sided dice to determine the outcome for each myth.


from here

wow, thanks monster. i feel like a dumbass now. i've been telling my mom for a long time now that microsoft had no way of tracking how many times an email was forwarded so they couldn't possibly give $.01 for each forward to little Susie to fix her lisp.

Well of course they know how many times it's been forwarded. Every single email you send goes through their data banks to compile the report for the department of homeland security. Hell even I, know how many times your mom's forwarded that email -I just use the Email Offenders Register. www.chainmugs.com If you don't want them to track your email, you have tio type *a55w1pe in the bcc field.

That AP writer seems really broken up about it.

snap. http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...783#post439783 :lol: Anthony Minghella died today too.

(I'm a slow poster)

20 July 1919 to 11 January 2008 is 32317 days.
32317/365.25 = 88.479 (to 3 decimal places)

So it is accurate to the nearest day, if the year is assumed to be 365.25 days long.

Well spotted.

Resurrecting an old thread in a good cause, albeit an obscure one to most people.

Humphrey Lyttleton died yesterday.
He was 86, so had a good innings, and made his mark, but it's the passing of an era.
He was a jazz musician (trumpet) and the host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - the long running (over 40 years) and extremely funny Radio 4 comedy.

Humph - more than Mornington Crescent mourns you.

Though I never got the hang of the game, it seemed like fun. Godspeed, Mr. Lyttleton

I think it would also be appropriate to note the passing, much too young, of Danny Federici, the awesome Hammond B3 player from Springsteen's E Street Band.

To me, he is best known for playing the accordian on "Sandy". Takes a lot of imagination and balls to play accordian on a rock and roll ballad.

Hofmann is probably up in Heaven beating the shit out of Timothy Leary for fucking up his creation. :)