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person
Mostly Harmless
Posts: 2 Joined: Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:05 am
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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by person » Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:59 pm
Hi. I go by the name of person (note the lower case "p"
), a relatively new Oolite player (starting to like it, though).
I thought I'd just start a
poll to figure out
how old people here
are exacly.
Rxke
Retired Assassin
Posts: 1760 Joined: Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:54 pm
Location: Belgium
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by Rxke » Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:05 am
Bump.
Murgh
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by Murgh » Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:38 pm
hey. happy birthday, Rxke!
Rxke
Retired Assassin
Posts: 1760 Joined: Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:54 pm
Location: Belgium
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by Rxke » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:53 pm
Not my birthday, heehee, just thought this
poll too interesting to let it slide into oblivion...
So I 'bumped' it up...
jonnycuba
Deadly
Posts: 233 Joined: Fri May 21, 2004 1:04 pm
Location: Witchspace
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by jonnycuba » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:17 pm
yeah were all old men apart from the odd whippersnapper!
Team Zorg are Go!
Murgh
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by Murgh » Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:12 pm
oh. thought
you made it public
you had moved on to a new bracket.
I'm not sure what science we can gather from this
poll .. that a few were grownup when OG Elite cam out, some not yet born, and most imbetween..
Star Gazer
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Location: North Norfolk, UK, (Average Agricultural, Feudal States,Tech Level 8)
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by Star Gazer » Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:57 pm
Yeah, sad to say, I was already
old enough to have known better when I got addicted to Elite the first time round!!
Still, they say
you 're only as
old as the woman
you feel...
Very funny, Scotty, now beam down my clothes...
Corbeau
Competent
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by Corbeau » Tue May 15, 2007 2:29 pm
Coolish
(off to the first page again
)
drew
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by drew » Tue May 15, 2007 2:40 pm
Still, they say you 're only as old as the woman you feel...
That only saves me a couple of years!
I'm 36 btw. First played Elite when I was 13.
Cheers,
Drew.
Arexack_Heretic
Dangerous Subversive Element
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by Arexack_Heretic » Tue May 15, 2007 4:52 pm
If I vote now, I'll be able to offset the mean a little from the 30-ish group.
Next month I'll be undeniably in the '
old ' category.
ps Notice
how the distribution follows almost exactly an exponential curve at first?
Riding the Rocket!
Corbeau
Competent
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by Corbeau » Tue May 15, 2007 5:14 pm
I'd call it "Gaussian".
Arexack_Heretic
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by Arexack_Heretic » Tue May 15, 2007 5:38 pm
not quite, the run-up is too high.
drop-off after the peak is linear.
Possibly a finer group-size as well as a greater population size would pull it into the expected gausian bellcurve.
I suspect, however, that there will always be a bias towards younger ages, causing a 'bearded' peak.
Riding the Rocket!
reills
Deadly
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Location: Pawling, NY U.S.A.
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by reills » Tue May 15, 2007 5:51 pm
There is a saying in the souther US "Older than dirt." Well, dirt sends me a father's day card!
Arexack_Heretic
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by Arexack_Heretic » Tue May 15, 2007 5:55 pm
you rock!
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Captain Hesperus
Grand High Clock-Tower Poobah
Posts: 2310 Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:10 pm
Location: Anywhere I can sell Trumbles.....
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by Captain Hesperus » Tue May 15, 2007 6:14 pm
Alls I can say is that I'm a bt younger than TGHC, which equates to slightly younger than the Dead Sea Scrolls....
Captain Hesperus