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April 11th, 1954

  • 28-11-2010 5:39pm
    #1
    aidan_walsh
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    According to a computer in Cambridge that Sunday is officially the most boring day ever. Or at least since 1900 anyway.
    A computer-programmer from Cambridge, William Tunstall-Pedoe, fed a computer program called True Knowledge over 300 million facts about people, places and events that have made the news since 1900. Using algorithms and the information provided, the computer calculated the most boring day ever--a day where no major significant events took place.

    So what was this uber-boring day? April 11, 1954. Tunstall-Pedoe reports that nothing of note happened on this day (except a Belgium general election, the birth of a Turkish academic and the death of a footballer).


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  • #2
    DerekDGoldfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭DerekDGoldfish


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    According to a computer in Cambridge that Sunday is officially the most boring day ever. Or at least since 1900 anyway.

    Most boring thread ever?


  • #3
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    I dunno man, last wednesday week was pretty boring. I can't even remember it


  • #4
    alwaysadub
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    No doubt Biggins'll be along soon to tell us what he remembers happening that day.:D


  • #5
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    DerekDGoldfish wrote: »
    Most boring thread ever?
    Possibly. Be nice to have a contender. Let's see how it turns out.


  • #6
    Mr. Manager
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    DerekDGoldfish wrote: »
    Most boring thread ever?

    I quite enjoyed the little fact :)

    Gave me something to read while hopelessly starring out the office window wishing something cool to happen


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  • #7
    bonerm
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    I used my supercomputer to crunch the date 11/4/1954 and it came back with the result that that date was a Sunday. So it all checks out. Sundays are just amazingly boring (past present and future).


  • #8
    cml387
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    Confirmation of widely-held-beliefs time.

    That the most boring day of the 20th century was the day of the Belgian general election.


  • #9
    Bazzo
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    I dunno about the most boring day since 1900, but I do know that that computer programmer has a very unfortunate surname.


  • #10
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,528 ✭✭✭cml387


    The IT Crowd (Channel 4-very good) had a plot involving a man called Peter Phyle.


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