>>>>>>< chuckle > You kids!
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>>>>>>>Neither am I, but I am younger. :o) (not by much, but I'll take what I can get :o)
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>SNIP
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>>>>>>>>>for some reason I assumed you where younger
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Why thank you. And I'm not hiding behind an old photo! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Alan (Poisson Distribution) Popow
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>>>>And didn't I just come in real handy when you guys were being buzz bombed during WWII.
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>>>Oh? How so? BTW I wasn't buzz-bombed
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>>Poisson Distribution played a large part in trying to predict bombing patterns in London. How about your parents? Cousins? Uncles/Aunts? Friends? Second cousins of your barber's butcher's next-door neighbour?
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>Yes, I recall seeing summat about this a year or so ago. Oh yes my folks' families lived through (what we call) the Blitz (buzz-bombed?). But I wasn't referring to your being the father of Poisson distribution - rather that at your advanced age you skew the average from a Normal :-)
>
>Mind you, how did being able to predict bomb patterns do anything to save buildings or lives?
>
>"Cor blimey, look 'Arry! Jerry's dropped a stick o' bombs just o'er our 'eads, mite!"
>"Down't worry Arfur, ducks. Wot wiv Poisson distribimution an' all, I reckons we'll be quite sife, mi ole china!"

buzz bomb was the german V1 called that because the engine made a buzzing sound.