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"NOW go figure this out.... take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be this year and it WILL EQUAL TO 111.This won't ever happen again in your lifetime"

There's nothing magical about it folks. Taking the last two digits of the the year I was born is equivalent to subtracting 1900 from it. So, to calculate my age correctly, I also have to subtract 1900 from the current year. If I do that, I get 2011-1900 = 111!

If someone pulls the same trick next year, the "magic" number will be 112, and so on.

In other words, it's not anything deep and meaningful, it's just a trick.

Note: In 2011, the rule doesn't work for people older than 111 or younger than 11. You can check this for yourself. Likewise, next year, the rule won't work for people older than 112 and younger than 12, and so on. In other words, for the rule to work, you must have lived past the turn of one, and only one, century. There's nothing magical about that either.

A more generalised way of saying the rule is that for anyone, of any age, who has lived past the turn of any one century, the last two digits of their year of birth when added to their age will equal 100 plus the last two digits of the current year.

It's a general rule folks, and doesn't really say anything more meaningful than that any given year minus the same year in the previous century equals 100. Simple, huh? It doesn't show anything special about 2011, so don't get any funny ideas about it!

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