Has anything statistically improbable happened to you

[randomlinh]

My good friend mike made friends w/ adam.. both car guys. adam's gf turns out to have roomed w/ my friends kristina and lara. and kristina's new roommate just happens to work w/ adam's good friend pete... it really is a small world.

 

[GreyMittens]

Hmm, here are a few little things...

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- I met one of my good friends at a craps table in Vegas while on vacation. neither of us knew the other was down that weekend.

- a deer hit me when I was doing 120km/hr on my motorcycle (only broke my thumb knuckle)

- I'm 6' 6"

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
Let's see...

How about meeting my soulmate AND managing to hold on to her for eight years (and counting)?

😀

that makes me happy 🙂 i love happy stories. :heart:

 

[shelaby]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Air Force story -

In 1964 I was assigned to Travis AFB, California and there was a Msgt Zelinski in our Shop.

In 1966 I went to 'Nam - 3 months later, here comes Zelinski.
In 1967 I moved to another base in 'Nam . . . 3 months later, here comes Zelinski.

In late 1967 I returned from 'Nam to the US to Reese AFB, Texas . . . and 3 months later, here comes Zelinski.

In the middle of 1968 I get out of the service, and have to clear out through the Retention NCO - again Zelinski.

Now we get into a long conversation about where we're from and where we're going . .
and I find out that his Home of Record, where he lives when not out on military activity, where his wife and family lives . .
is next door to my Grandmothers house in Birmingham, Michigan -
and he's known my relatives since my mom was a teenager in highschool there.

:Q Zelinski's going to post in this thread, I just know it!! 😉

not for another 3 months though :x

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
5 years ago I had an ex-girlfrind that I hadn't seen in 6 years call me in the middle of having sex with my wife 😀 She's broadcasting over the answering machine saying in a perky voice "Hi! I haven't seen you in a while, but I think about you a lot and was wondering if you'd like to meet for lunch or something! I got your number from John (how did she get HIS number???). How's "Moley" doing? (I have a mole in a 'private' area she's refering too)."

Yeah...that killed the mood. I got in trouble for it, questioned everytime I left the house, etc.

hahaha.. that's hilarious.. ok, not for you.. but for the rest of us 🙂 the real question you actually return her phone call?

 

[sao123]

I hooked up a just out of the box windows XP machine to the internet for 24 hours through cable internet.
completely unpatched with no service packs
no virus scan
no firewall



and i didnt get a single virus.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: shelaby

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Air Force story -

In 1964 I was assigned to Travis AFB, California and there was a Msgt Zelinski in our Shop.

In 1966 I went to 'Nam - 3 months later, here comes Zelinski.
In 1967 I moved to another base in 'Nam . . . 3 months later, here comes Zelinski.

In late 1967 I returned from 'Nam to the US to Reese AFB, Texas . . . and 3 months later, here comes Zelinski.

In the middle of 1968 I get out of the service, and have to clear out through the Retention NCO - again Zelinski.

Now we get into a long conversation about where we're from and where we're going . .
and I find out that his Home of Record, where he lives when not out on military activity, where his wife and family lives . .
is next door to my Grandmothers house in Birmingham, Michigan -
and he's known my relatives since my mom was a teenager in highschool there.

:Q Zelinski's going to post in this thread, I just know it!! 😉

not for another 3 months though :x

:Q he better hurry up before it gets archived!

 

[Slammy1]

Originally posted by: sao123
I hooked up a just out of the box windows XP machine to the internet for 24 hours through cable internet.
completely unpatched with no service packs
no virus scan
no firewall



and i didnt get a single virus.

I think this situation is improving some. My last 2 installs were virus free during Windows update, the 2 before that I got a virus. Lesson learned was to install AV before d/l'ing the critical updates, but on my last attempt I got a virus while updating the definitions...

I haven't had anything where I wondered what are the odds. I pulled a straight flush on a poker machine, but that happens. I was playing these guys that would team up playing poker (only found out later). They liked to call squirrelly games to their advantage since they know the odds better, and coming from a family where my grandma ran illegal poker in the back of her bar I figured they couldn't be that good. The last game of the evening was deuces wild (yuck). I had a 5-kings, so when he bet max I was pretty shocked. I doubled him back, that went a couple of times then he actually hesitated for a second before doubling me back. It went a little longer until I took pity on the guy and told him he needed to stop cause he was going to lose. He did one more raise before calling. He had 5-queens.

These guys really sucked at cards, but they'd take my friends' money here and there so I'd go win it back for them. I'm no shark by any stretch, but a fool and his money and all that. One time in between the sheets a friend got 2xaces. It was a friendly game so I told him not to pot it, and sure enough he pulled a 3rd ace.

 

[xboxist]

A bullet fired from my neighbor's hunting rifle connected with my skull on its downward path back to earth. Was like a hard thud and then there was a little blood. Nothing too bad though. Laughed my ass off a moment later when I realized what had happened.


In case you're wondering, picture two large properties. I was working back on my pond and he was off in his fields somewhere shooting birds.

 

[hevnsnt]

I have one..

My wife and I took our honeymoon in Ireland.. On the first night we went into a small (as in VERY SMALL) irish bar to have a few drinks.. We noticed that there was another young american in there -- putting them down with the locals.

We left and went to a dinner theater, and on the way back home we stopped back in the bar.. The american was still there, so we started talking to him.

Turns out he was a roommate of one of my friends from highschool. How weird is that.

 

[Hannover]

I started attending a catholic high school in the philadelphia area during my sophmore year. I was chatting with a few of the girls in home room and found out that one of them was from the same small town as me, Mt. Pleasant SC. We didn't remember each other but ended up bringing in matching 1st & 2nd grade class pictures. We became pretty good friends and went to the Sr. prom together.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
when i was 7 i found a frog in the ditch with 6 toes.

wanna talk small town?

it was in the paper 🙂

are you near a bunch of factories??? pollution..

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: xboxist
A bullet fired from my neighbor's hunting rifle connected with my skull on its downward path back to earth. Was like a hard thud and then there was a little blood. Nothing too bad though. Laughed my ass off a moment later when I realized what had happened.


In case you're wondering, picture two large properties. I was working back on my pond and he was off in his fields somewhere shooting birds.

Damn....I think you used up all your karma points on that one. :Q

 

[GasX]

I had an interseception when I was a baby (intestines tied into a knot). It's a 1 in 800 occurence.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Here's a few more...

I've been shot with a bow-and-arrow (arrow penetrated my calf);

I've been hit by an airplane;

I had two pet snakes once who both went for the same fish; they bit each other's heads simultaneously and they each thought they had the fish and they died like that.

Um... I went to the tiny Carribean island of Dominica (NOT DOminican Republic) to check out the medical school there (Ross Univ. school of Medicine) and discovered that one of the newly arrived professors there lived on the same street as I do up here in Alaska. And, he taught at the local university where I took one of his courses.

 

[GreyMittens]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I had an interseception when I was a baby (intestines tied into a knot). It's a 1 in 800 occurence.

Pfft! Well i was born! that is SOOOOO statisically improbable 🙂

Seriously though, that would have sucked, your parents were probably a wreck.

 

[Al Neri]

weird story

one time I was at Six Flags Great Adventure (in NJ) with my then girlfriend. We were exhausted and wanted to leave, but they had just opened up Superman the ride. When we got to the ride there was a three hour wait. I said to my girlfriend, "Damn... I'd throw someone like 10 bucks to skip this line.." before she could respond heard some kid saying "Do any two people want to go on the ride?" apparently he had one of those line advance reservation beepers and two people he was with didn't want to go on... He was right next to me so I was like, yeah we'll go while we're walking to the line he says exactly what I said to my girlfriend, "throw me like 10 bucks to skip this line." Went on the ride, saved 3 hours of my life. The ride was eh, but the story was weird.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Let me summarize a concept for you:

While individual events may be statistically improbable, it is VERY probable that quite a few of these types of events will occur to you.

Law of Truly Large Numbers.

Also, by the Asymptotic Equipartition Property, all events are almost equally surprising.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: GreyMittens

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I had an interseception when I was a baby (intestines tied into a knot). It's a 1 in 800 occurence.

Pfft! Well i was born! that is SOOOOO statisically improbable 🙂

Seriously though, that would have sucked, your parents were probably a wreck.

Imagine a baby who for no apparent reason has been screaming for 36 hours straight...

 

[chuckywang]

This is a crazy story.

 

[Kanalua]

I got into Law School

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: TallBill
I'm 6'7"

and you go by the name TallBill... amazing. 😛

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: meltdown75
when i was 7 i found a frog in the ditch with 6 toes.

wanna talk small town?

it was in the paper 🙂

are you near a bunch of factories??? pollution..

nah, i think the ditch caught some radiation when the mothership dropped me off.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
when i was 7 i found a frog in the ditch with 6 toes.

wanna talk small town?

it was in the paper 🙂

we have frogs like that ALL over here. 😀

 

[jiwq]

in world of warcraft, there was a group of 3 of us who rolled on an item. first guy rolled 98, 2nd guy rolled 99, i rolled 100. in that order.