the most straightforward ile thread...evah. (a experiment.)

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okay, here's the deal. we're going to determine, BY SCIENCE, just how long we can go before a thread deforms and mutates. so, post the numerical representation of your age (i.e. 18, 40, etc.) and NOTHING MORE.

― jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

note: hanle y and hanle y related posts are discounted.

― jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― abortion, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doesn't that already count as a mutation? 27.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Apollonius of Tyana, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(all number-related threads necessarily subject to difficulty mark s has with the many hideous bogosities that have sneaked into the system): next june i will be 42 hurrah

― mark s, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

XXVII

― Trevor, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

11011

― Trevor, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

xxx

― MarkH, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

27. Ha ha, it's over. I'm the same age as Samantha and so the freaky database won't let me put just 27.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Madchen, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh fuck, and now everyone knows I'm stupid because Trevor is 27 too but intelligent enough to put XXVII and not mouth off about how clever he is in this thread thus destroying the experiment.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two six.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Tom, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And now I'm even dumber because Samantha didn't just put 27. This means that there is a conspiracy to make me look dumb and it is orchestrated by the database (that told me I couldn't put my answer in because it wasn't unique and it said I had to change something). I'm scared now.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

xxviii

― chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is the experiment over yet?

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

beyond age and aging.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

21 (almost)

― DG, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

10111

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ox001A

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like Richard, I toyed with the idea of representing my age in hexadecimal, but the words of Jess echoed in my head "post the numerical representation of your age... and NOTHING MORE."

I then realised that hexadecimal was an ALPHA-numerical form of representation, thus transgressing Jess' rules. Then again, I guess I'm doing that now.

What does it all mean??

― Trevor, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In 2001, I was 19, so 19-2001.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

21+

― j.lu, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(2001 - 1974) = backwards tombstone?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

................................

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nineteen

― turner, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

21 - and I'm sorry I can't post NOTHING MORE as stupid Greenspun won't let me cos DG already posted he was 21.

― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― stevo, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

:o)

― chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

:o) (don't know how that will look with italics)

What's with this one? Is it just a normal :-) but with a stupid fat nose? Or does it mean something specific?

― Nick, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Mark, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

5 squared

― katie, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick what are you smoking?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is just a fat nose smiley
thread mutation!

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer the stupid fat nose to the boring skinny nose and that's the one I'm sticking with. So there.

― chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

100 - 67 = X (-8) = y

What is X and what is Y?

― james, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't mind fat noses in real life. It's just the emoticon one that I am railing against. But then I'm not an emoticonist in the first place.

― Nick, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

:o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o):o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o) :o)

― chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How immature was that?

― chris, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you all suck.

this is obviously why i flunked out of hollywood upstairs medical college.

― jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

18.11

― Bill, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

xxx/iii

― suzy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/nowthatsacig29.jpg

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come of it Captain Jess, you knew we could nay steer this ship in the course you were asking!

― james, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Ed, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(6²)-1

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

25 for 37 more days.

― bnw, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― Maria, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

damn, how many keys does he have on that key ring!!

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

did he just catch in his mouth a shell fired from a canon?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

22. Although the experiment is obviously over. The answer is 'not very long'.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

6.77315 x 10^8 s (6sf) [I probably went wrong somewhere, but I assume nobody will be bored enough to check] Excuse for fanciness: someone's already posted the more obvious form of my answer. Excuse for posting when experiment has already died: erm, none.

― Rebecca, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just got very excited about certain numbers such as 22.4 and 6.02 etc. and then realized no one here would get excited because without the context it would be very unamusing (so it is only amusing to about five people total). What a disappointment.

― Maria, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII

― Kim, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dammit ed you stole my answer

― di, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

vs. representation of probable max age

IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII

― Kim, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the problem is the joy of this board is its protean nature

― anthony, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blimey. I am the oldest one on the board?

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is suzy claming to be 10 years old?

― Nick, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2 1

― ambrose, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Magic Number * 6

― Graham, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

square root of 769

― Helen Fordsdale, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

quadratic root of 390625

― hamish, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Im swervin

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― duane, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

yo duane don't make me make that "mid-life crisis" joke again!

― di, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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