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	Why some guy will never have a girlfriend

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4-18-2007 4:22 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/107848af-af26-4f6f-a898-4ea651cb8347/0077670F-9287-41C6-8ADD-B9D095D83F2E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend" href="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend" style="font-size: 11px;">en.nothingisreal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend">While I'll be the first to admit that my chances of ever entering into a meaningful relationship with someone special are practically non-existent, I staunchly refuse to admit that it has anything to do with some inherent problem with <I>me</I>. Instead, I am convinced that the situation can be readily explained in purely scientific terms, using nothing more than demographics and some elementary statistical calculus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Number of people on Earth (in 1998): 5 592 830 000<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-wp98a3_0"><A title="" href="#_note-wp98a3">[4]</A></SUP></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">…who are female: 2 941 118 000<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-wp98a7_0"><A title="" href="#_note-wp98a7">[5]</A></SUP></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">…in "developed" countries: 605 601 000<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-wp98a7_1"><A title="" href="#_note-wp98a7">[5]</A></SUP></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">…currently (in 2000) aged 18 to 25: 65 399 083<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-wp98a3_1"><A title="" href="#_note-wp98a3">[4]</A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-wp98a7_2"><A title="" href="#_note-wp98a7">[5]</A></SUP></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><H2><SPAN class="editsection">[<A title="Edit section: …who are beautiful: 1&thinsp;487&thinsp;838" href="http://en.nothingisreal.com/w/index.php?title=Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend&action=edit&section=6">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="mw-headline">…who are beautiful: 1 487 838</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">…and intelligent: 236 053</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">…and not already committed: 118 027</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend"><SPAN class="mw-headline">…and also might like me: 18 726</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend">assuming I were to go on a blind date with a new girl about my age every week, I would have to date for 3493 weeks before I found one of the 18 726. That's very nearly 67 <I>years</I>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0077670F-9287-41C6-8ADD-B9D095D83F2E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>