"Jacques Guy" > wrote in message
...
> Maxie P. Diddly wrote:
>
> > Hong Kong - A 78-year-old woman in northern China has eaten an
> > estimated 10 tons of soil over the past 70 years, a news report
said
> > on Monday.
>
> My brother-in-law stopped smoking about 20 years ago, having
calculated
> that, having consumed 600kg of the stuff, he had contributed enough
> to the state's coffers. As for how many litres of wine and spirits
> he has gone through so far, I have no idea. As a rough guess:
between
> 10,000 and 20,000 litres (which is between 10 and 20 tons of the
stuff).
> And he is 89. Hmmmm... (should I cross-post this to sci.statistics?)
> there seems to be a very significant correlation the the more you
> have
> consumed (of anything), the older you are likely to be. Bingo!

X-post to alt.sci.math.statistics.prediction added.