january 1 birthdays

what happens in march that causes a flood of birthdays(well a disproportionate amount of this forum seems to have january 1 as listed birthday).is it an excel convention/gathering?

Martin, I'm VERY busy in late March / early April. What good is a forum without new recruits?

Originally Posted by martindwilson

what happens in march that causes a flood of birthdays ... to have january 1 as listed birthday).is it an excel convention/gathering?

I suppose if people CBA putting their burthday in does it default to 1st Jan? Or maybe users-to-be don't read the instrctions properly and think that the DoB field is mandetory and don't want to put their real birthday so put 1st Jan.

That said, I have 13 (unlucky for some) nieces and nephews, and of those, two have a birthday on 31st Dec (I know it's not quite 1st Jan but it's close enough). And had my procreating relatives ceased their reproducing antics earlier, the figure would not be 2 out of 13, but could have been 2 out of 6.

DominicB

I'm supposed to be going to a birthday party on the 1st Jan. Heaven knows what condition I'll be in after the night before if previous years are anything to go by!!!

I have two nephews and seven nieces. Both nephews were born on the same day (10 years apart). The infant brother of one of those nephews (my step-nephew-in-law-once-removed-on-my-wife's-side-of-the-family, I guess, since it's with a different dad not related to the family?) was also born on that same day. Now THAT is well orchestrated.

Paul, i notice, well at least from work that your reputation icon isn't showing, perhaps it might be better to use this url instead of typesomething.com
http://www.excelforum.com/images/styles/Skylight/buttons/reputation.gif
The image will appear as below

and for the report button:
http://www.excelforum.com/images/styles/Skylight/buttons/report.gif
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Hope that helps

Thanks, Simon. Is this any better?

Well, my birthday is exactly 9 months from Jan 1, so I must have been a really good party.

Originally Posted by Paul

Thanks, Simon. Is this any better?

Much better Paul , just one thing to add though, if the forum changes icons...etc then you will have to go to the whole process of copying them and then uploading again, but if you use the method i posted the icons should change with the forum

Hmmm, I was thinking that a disproportionate amount of individuals born on Jan 1 had high skills in Excel (some sort of spreadsheet zodiac thing) but then realized that just because they are registered users, doesn't mean they're proficient (perhaps the opposite). So we need to measure the proficiency of the Jan 1sters and map that against other days of the year to truly determine your spreadsheet horoscope. () Perhaps I can apply for a grant.

if the forum changes icons...

True, and I bet those icons change before the forum is restructured. Pint of Guinness anyone?

Originally Posted by Paul

True, and I bet those icons change before the forum is restructured. Pint of Guinness anyone?

I'm with you on the Guinness, if you haven't had the requests you all make filled 100 times over by now then i wouldn't bother keeping my fingers crossed or making any more requests

Hmm, the MVP Summit used to be in March, didn't it?

Originally Posted by romperstomper

Hmm, the MVP Summit used to be in March, didn't it?

I was trying to organise an Excel Event and did have a notice up here but the owner freaked and removed it

Anyway, the Microsoft Excel Users Event hasn't had that much response because its difficult to get the word spread around, if interest doesn't pick up i'll have to cancel it which will be a shame, there was to be 3 or 4 MVP's presenting everything from what we know and love to the latest cutting edge developments.

But there again i'm not adverse to having a few beers in the honour of those that might have attended

Great, I read that birthday wiki deal, and now know I'm one of the naive folks that thought you'd need more than 23 people to have a 50% chance. I definitely wouldn't have pegged 60 as being the 99.2% chance.

now that we know the chances of having two people having the same birthday, I am curious as to the breakout of birthdays for this forum. Would one of you Mods who have access to that data, plot the frequency on a graph and post it to this thread? I know that I share my birthday with some interesting people.

107 B.C. - Roman orator, writer, and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero was
born in Arpinum, Italy.

1892 - British writer John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South-Africa.

1909 - Pianist and comedian Borge Rosenbaum, better known as Victor Borge, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He started playing the piano when he was three years old.

1932 - American actor and Golden Globe winner Dabney Coleman, whose credits include Nine to Five, On Golden Pond, and Tootsie, was born in Austin, Texas.

1945 - Actress and bestselling author Victoria Principal, whose credits include the television series Dallas, was born in Fukuoka, Japan.

1956 - Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, better known as just Mel Gibson and star of Lethal Weapon and Braveheart, was born in Peekskill, New York.

With whom do you share a birthday?

In the news:
A Cambridge scientist has developed a computer program to calculate the most lackluster day since 1900. April 11, 1954 based on what happened on that day and famous people's birthdays.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_1...64-501465.html

Look at the diagonal:

1-1
2-2
3-3
4-4
5-5
....
12-12

zbor, how did you collect that data?

My guess is he clicked the "Calendar" button in the header, than then copied the data for each month and arranged it in Excel.

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