# Top THAT Stories That You Tell (Possibly TMI)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 20, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-that-stories-that-you-tell-possibly-tmi/295396 "2005-03-20T05:52:47Z")
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### Author: ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-that-stories-that-you-tell-possibly-tmi/295396/48 "2005-03-27T19:08:37Z")

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> [@Tentacle Monster](#):
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> **TwistOfFate** : Did you just make that up, or did you calculate it? And how?

Those are the correct odds, if you exclude the any combination where the number portion is 0000. You multiply 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet) by 9999 (number of number combinations, excluding 0000), and your answer is 259974. Hence, odds are 1 in 259974.

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