Ditto. Even though I'm a Christian, I can understand and sympathize with many of reasons people walk away from Christianity. "Because I disagree with the tenets of one pretty small subset of it" isn't one I get, though. I'm not sure who's even left preaching the prosperity gospel in the U.S. anymore, other than Joel…

Ditto. Even though I'm a Christian, I can understand and sympathize with many of reasons people walk away from Christianity. "Because I disagree with the tenets of one pretty small subset of it" isn't one I get, though. I'm not sure who's even left preaching the prosperity gospel in the U.S. anymore, other than Joel…

Of course I am, whoever-Todd-said-was-the-"Go On"-version-of-Abed.

Of course I am, whoever-Todd-said-was-the-"Go On"-version-of-Abed.

Wait a second. In Noel's first paragraph, he says the '60s ended with Altamont and the '70s began with Nixon's second election. But since I was born in 1971, does that mean…

Wait a second. In Noel's first paragraph, he says the '60s ended with Altamont and the '70s began with Nixon's second election. But since I was born in 1971, does that mean…

Oh, yeah, I've heard the "police" one:

Oh, yeah, I've heard the "police" one:

Here's my childhood favorite, which involves five consecutive "and"s within a pretty logical sentence. You see a restaurant sign in your neighborhood:

Here's my childhood favorite, which involves five consecutive "and"s within a pretty logical sentence. You see a restaurant sign in your neighborhood:

REALLY GOOD AT STATING THE OBBBBBVIOUSSSSSSSS!

REALLY GOOD AT STATING THE OBBBBBVIOUSSSSSSSS!

Last post, which will explain all!

Last post, which will explain all!

No one cares about this but me, I'm sure, but I did 10,000 runs of this in Excel (using the simplest logic I could, to make sure I wasn't introducing any mistakes), and here's what I found:

No one cares about this but me, I'm sure, but I did 10,000 runs of this in Excel (using the simplest logic I could, to make sure I wasn't introducing any mistakes), and here's what I found:

Not to doubt your Mathlab skills there, @avclub-e71c1ca6f3a1da729ae7b32956813ffb:disqus, but your numbers add up to 132%. I'm pretty sure that's not the right answer.

Not to doubt your Mathlab skills there, @avclub-e71c1ca6f3a1da729ae7b32956813ffb:disqus, but your numbers add up to 132%. I'm pretty sure that's not the right answer.

I'm trying to get my head around the calculation that @avclub-997f7e7989ed4ebf47ec45b062e05379:disqus is trying to do, which is that at most one number repeats from a list on nine digits. Here's my thought. First, we figure out the odds that the ninth digit repeats the eighth, but everything else is good, which is:

I'm trying to get my head around the calculation that @avclub-997f7e7989ed4ebf47ec45b062e05379:disqus is trying to do, which is that at most one number repeats from a list on nine digits. Here's my thought. First, we figure out the odds that the ninth digit repeats the eighth, but everything else is good, which is: