Toothpaste Bowl Final: Day 39

Copy of d39 (9).jpg All good things.... SKGR had come to hate our morning ritual of obsessively photographing the tube so much, that she was not sad to see it all end this morning.

Toothpaste Bowl Slideshow

Alas, for us, it is not without sadness that just shy of it's 40th birthday, our loyal tube of toothpaste gave up its last drop after having it's body throttled, squeezed, rolled and twisted into increasingly uncomfortable positions for over a month.

So who won the betting? Unbelievably, no one took 39 days, but it looks like kudos go to Mary for guessing 40 and Ruth for pegging 37.

Interestingly, if you average all 15 votes, you get exactly 40.5, so - as a group - everyone did extremely well, and proved that we all know a lot more about inconsquential, mundane facts than we should. MGR

(What the hell this is about & voting)

Comments (6)

A moment of silence for tubey. It shall be missed.

posted by pantrygirl on 2005-05-09 12:00:29

Thanks for reminding me! I went and got toothpaste, which I kept reminding myself to buy all weekend (and immediately forgot).

posted by karenw on 2005-05-09 13:10:28

I think you should bring to tube on Friday for a fitting send-off.

posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-05-09 18:01:41

oops. "the tube".

posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-05-09 18:02:30

Wisdom of Crowds ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds ) mentions this phenomena: averaging votes of many brings the most accurate result; in particular if the group is diverse and not interrelated in a particular manner.

posted by olya on April 12th 2007 at 10:00pm
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Radio Lab has a great podcast on the Wisdom of Crowds. Radio Lab is an amazing podcast in general - take a little time to check it out.

posted by cookiedough on March 21st 2008 at 9:22am
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