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The average number of bottles of beer opened with a lighter in a given year is _________ (worldwide). No Googling, no paper pen, just give me your best guess within the next minute or two.

I have asked this bit of trivia to dozens of friends and strangers as a mental math estimation exercise. The answer will obviously based on statistics and will have a margin of error. I have received a wide range of guesses from 7 to many billions. It seems people generally have great difficulty in approximation. And some completely lock up and are incapable of even guessing… and surprisingly (or perhaps not so), these are your typical smart guys… math teachers, programmers, engineers, etc.

Maybe this will spawn a whole new domain in IQ tests… Loose math approximation under time constraints. AKA “roughing it in”. Now that I think about it, Google asks these sorts of questions during interviews for a good reason(?).

For the record my guess is 310,000.

Here are a few guesses from my buds…

Sid K: 726,000
Edwin C: 4,000,000,000
Kenneth H: 1,000,000
David B: 480,000
Tina K: 1 Zillion Billion Quintillion
Keith B: 13,000,000
Kevin B: 7
Matt C: 3,257,823
Melissa K: 80,000,000,000
Derek D: 7
Brian E: 10,000,000

Stay tuned for the answer.

*I came up with this bit of trivia at the beach as some idiot tourist was trying to open his stupid glass beer bottle (thanks Corona) by tearing apart the arm rest of a beach rental chair.

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Yes, EVER!!! It will be this Sunday night (12/24/2006), Christmas Eve in the G-Lounge. You may arrive as early as 7:00 PM. There will be games, door prizes, and plenty of alcohol with people from all over the country. We have two special guests all the way from California: Richard Smith and Michelle Harder (soon to be married, so don’t hit on them… too much). We expect another strong turnout from Jacksonville and Niceville this year. You are welcome to bring guests.

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Here is the story…
John Beschler, lead developer, was a little upset about our users having trouble with our website. He walked by my cube while someone mentioned someone else having trouble with our intrAnet site. Our site is well done and well tested and user friendly… anyway, John got all upset and turned red in the face and said, “It’s already an idiot proof website!”.  While the people around him looked at him confused I looked up the domain.  The rest is history.

Idiotproof Website

-kc

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