Cheap Trick

SMS: “Dont attend any calls from 7888308001, 9316048121, 9876266211, 9888854137, 9876715587 these numbers come in red colors. U may get brain hamrage due to high frequency. 27 persons died just recieving the call. Watch dd news to confirm. Please inform all your friends and relatives soon – its urgent.”

An SMS either originating from a girl who had trouble from guys who had these numbers or a guy who was screwing around a lot of girls and dint want his parents to know.

The Hoaxes

Intrigued to make this a genre of posts, I have been receiving a forward message that Aug 2010 has 5 Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays and will not happen again in 800 odd years. Well, its common sense that when a month with 31 days starts with any day, that day and the following 2 days will repeat 5 times.. So, calculating when its not a leap year, next years August will start on a Monday. If its a leap year, it will skip a day and start on a Tuesday..

Without considering leap years, this pattern should repeat every 7 years.

Considering Leap years, we will have to add 2 + 2 years since there will be 2 leap years in between..

So, every 11 years or so, August will start with a Sunday.. The next August with 5 SMT will be in 2021. After that in 2032.

This is my own logic and calculation and if you find a mistake, please let me know.

And please stop forwarding something just because it sounds amazing..