From: Glen Clark <glen@clarkcom.com>
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/09/27
Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <324C72AB.68607C46@clarkcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52ehob$o7p@krusty.irvine.com
Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
> Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> writes:
>
> >I got a message telling
> >me I was proving the wrong thing. The discussion was not "how frequently
> >does each date happen on a Friday," but was "how frequently is the 13th a
> >Friday."
>
> Uh, your own results prove that the 13th falls on Friday more often
> than on other days of the week. No one has claimed that the 13th is a
> Friday 25% more often
> than a Monday, or anything like that.
I am baffled at the amount of bandwidth that has been consumed
arguing about how many Friday the 13ths fit on the head of a
pin. In the news business, they talk about whether a story has
"legs". If it has legs, it means the public wants more of it.
This discussion about Friday the 13th has incredible legs. If
I remember right, it started out three titles ago under the
heading of Publishing Scholarly Works on the Net several weeks
back. And it's cross-posted to no fewer than eight newsgroups.
Is this a spoof?
--
Glen Clark
glen@clarkcom.com
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-13 0:00 language wars (results 13 September) last posting Roy Gardiner
1996-09-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Fahey
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Clinton Pierce
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
[not found] ` <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark [this message]
1996-09-27 0:00 ` CHI Research, Inc.
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Mike McCarty
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-20 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-24 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting Andrew Gierth
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-03 0:00 Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself James Gillespie
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Paul Skoczylas
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