>>>>>>Ok, there is a new definition for loser:
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>>>>>>http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Man_takes_26_years_to_solve_Rubik%92s_Cube&in_article_id=471180&in_page_id=2
>>>>>
>>>>>LOL. Thanks for the morning smile.
>>>>>
>>>>>You have to wonder, though, how long it would take many other people to solve it if they absolutely had to and didn't have access to a guide showing you how to do it. It's not an easy puzzle, especially if you don't happen to be good at visualizing spatial relationships.
>>>>
>>>>Back in high school in class of 34, we had almost 20 cubes being solved at the time
>>>>At the time when it become popular, it almost completely eradicated preferans (card game)
>>>>
>>>>While professors were writing some boring stuff on board... {g}
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>>>Were the cubes 2x2x2, 3x3x3 or what? (I have no idea when class of 34 was because to me, that would be 1934 which isn't possible, I'm sure :o)
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>>34 students in the class....
>
>OK, I got it. Should have understood that. Here it is common to state the year you graduated as 'class of 79' which would mean 'I graduated in 1979.'

I did graduate in 1979. College, that is ;-) I think for you it must have been high school.