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Identical triplets born - one in a million chance

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  • victorycig, on 04/25/2008, -1/+87Holy crap! Identical Wallace Shawns triplets!
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001728/
    (I poisoned both cups.)
    • TecHeavy, on 04/25/2008, -12/+3LOL!
    • mikoss, on 04/25/2008, -1/+31Inconceivable!!
      • Aitese, on 04/25/2008, -0/+25You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

        No really...they were conceived.
        • onikiller, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Am I going MAD, or did the word "think" escape your lips? (wrong part but who cares)
      • exscind, on 04/25/2008, -0/+13Aitese is right. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders.
        • Rodalli, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8Never get involved in a ground war in Asia.
          • undergrace, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3And never bet against a Sicilian, when DEATH is on the line!
      • cawpin, on 04/25/2008, -1/+4The father looks like a damned vampire.
        • georgetds, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1If you imagine vampires to be, well, less dorky looking. But then, maybe one would not let a menacing looking vampire get close enough for a bite, whereas a dorky vampire could get close enough while your guard was down.
    • MattFromSeattle, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Stop that rhyming and I mean it!
    • jaxontyler, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Touche my friend, touche.
    • BNash577, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Holy Crap, I just found out they're making Toy Story 3 from that link!
      • MattFromSeattle, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7And the circle of knowledge is now complete.
  • eridius, on 04/25/2008, -4/+169one in a million chance? Shouldn't that mean there's a few thousand sets of identical triplets running around? If that were true, this wouldn't be terribly newsworthy. Perhaps this is more like one in a billion?
    • acesfull9, on 04/25/2008, -2/+67I think it might be for every million sets of triplets born, one set is identical
    • cards, on 04/25/2008, -1/+14That's what goes through my head every time I hear about something that's "one in a million".
    • groovechamp30, on 04/25/2008, -8/+5Its one in 200 million...Check the bbcs version of the story.
    • DonnieMarco, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5If it is a one in a million chance for every birth rather than for every triplet birth, and they haven't just made up up the one in a million statistic, then there would be just over 6,602 sets of identical triplets.
    • wrathchilde, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7That's what I thought too (right after, "too bad they look like the dad"), although it is unclear if the million refers to triplet births only.

      By the way, post the article, the pic is right there:
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ...

      Identical triplets are so unusual that doctors are divided over how often they occur.

      "Some research has even suggested that the odds are as high as 200 million to one, but the UK’ s Twins and Multiple Births Association said one in a million was a more realistic figure."
    • coit, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3I know a set of identical triplets that go to my son's school. I didn't realize that it was that uncommon, anymore so than triplets are uncommon. I figured a large percentage of twins and triplets were identical?
    • lnelson4, on 04/25/2008, -2/+6Wait. Wouldn't it be 3 in a million? That changes the math.
    • wicketr, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8I don't think the story is that they are identical triplets. I think the story is that all three of them have the same hilarious face.
    • thephuckphase, on 04/25/2008, -6/+1well if we must get technical, then you have to take into account how many times the father masturbated before impregnating his wife, one less or one more masturbation session and this would have never happen. Next you have to consider when and where he met the mother. in grad school, a bar, work? had he decided to not go take a certain class or been 1 hour late at the bar they would have never met and ultimately the triplets would have never existed. Oh but wait, this had no end. What about if his father masturbated one less or one more time, and his father never met the mother at some place? So if you take all that into a count, its like a 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or in relative terms, you'd have a better chance of getting laid than this happening again.
    • passedoutghost, on 04/26/2008, -2/+0It's not that unlikely, I've know 2 sets of triplets and a set of twins that went to my old high school that were both in my year. There were others in other years as well.
  • Risingashes, on 04/25/2008, -4/+551 in a million really isn't that unlikely.
    • punkcat, on 04/25/2008, -2/+12happens once in a million or thereabouts
    • acesfull9, on 04/25/2008, -1/+11I think it might be for every million sets of triplets born, one set is identical
    • Filmore, on 04/25/2008, -5/+2I was just thinking that. If the US population is 300 million, that's something like 300 sets of identical triplets floating around... 6 per state... 1 per major city... something like that.
      • fatrandy13, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3as stated, its 1 in a million triplets, not 1 in a million births...
    • bills534, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5I went to high school with identical triplets, they were hot. They were on maury povich once to have some makeovers.
      • jaxontyler, on 04/25/2008, -0/+10Did they have DNA tests to see which of the 45 men in the studio were their father?
        • likwidfuzion, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5"Tayshon...YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!"

          *starts getting jiggy wit it*
      • ahpro, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Pics or it didn't happen.
    • jc7012, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1One Million Dollars!....
    • Borgcube, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3Yea, it happens 9 out of 10 times.
    • JettaMan, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1That's what I was thinking. If you have a world population of 5 billion or whatever, 1 in a million is pretty common on a daily basis.
  • Treoinmypocket, on 04/25/2008, -24/+151Cool - can't wait to see them in Playboy.
  • GRAVEWiSH, on 04/25/2008, -1/+27kid on the left looks creepy as hell
  • greatkingrat85, on 04/25/2008, -2/+8http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ...
    • speedyrev, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7FTA - 200 million to one.
    • Llanowar, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1no, FTA - 200 million to one suggested by some research, but the UK’ s Twins and Multiple Births Association says 1 in a million is more realistic.
    • rocktopotomus, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1thanks for posting the article for us non-mouth breathers. suby how hard is it to post an article instead of a pic?
  • ElJif, on 04/25/2008, -12/+9They all have the same expression on their faces too. creepy. The parents should go out and buy a lottery ticket. If they win it might help them pay for the oncoming expenses.
  • nickcozy, on 04/25/2008, -17/+3Omg they look just like their daddy and mummy.So that makes them pentriplets or whatever.BWHAHAHA.
  • ab498, on 04/25/2008, -0/+71So you're sayin' theres a chance.....
    • chrgrose, on 04/25/2008, -1/+22Hey! What was all that one in a million talk?
      • haidalangara, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8we got no food! we got no jobs!


        OUR PETS' HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!
        • zantos420, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6why would she have you meet her at a bar at 10 in the morning?

          i don't know! i just figured she was a raging alcoholic! ... and all this time... such pain, such agony! such hell! over nothing!
        • Emilylime, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2no it's a cardigan but thanks for noticing!
        • mmockett, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Excuse me, Flo?
    • Witchbaby, on 04/25/2008, -1/+11Mary... I desperately wanna make love to a school boy.
    • RedneckRandy, on 04/29/2008, -1/+1Hahahahah. Best comment chain EVER
  • UltramegaOK, on 04/25/2008, -21/+5MILF

    I'd hit it.
  • patrflav, on 04/25/2008, -0/+15they all have their father's intent eyes
    • jeremyduffy, on 04/25/2008, -2/+3You mean retarded? I think he looks inbred personally.
    • ran24, on 04/25/2008, -2/+1They remind me of the eyes on the stereotypical gray large headed aliens. *shudder*
  • Shadowgamers, on 04/25/2008, -3/+32Jesus christ those babies are creepy
  • v1c1ous, on 04/25/2008, -9/+3I feel an image macro on the making:
    triplet 1 : sweet!
    triplet 2: cool!
    triplet 3: meh
  • Quick2822, on 04/25/2008, -3/+23Anything can make Digg's front page lately it seems.
  • suzywang3000, on 04/25/2008, -4/+36that guy's hairstyle is terrible.
    • badenglishihave, on 04/25/2008, -2/+1It's like he started with a frohawk and then ended up combing his hair to the side... in the wrong direction.
      • jmas9, on 04/25/2008, -1/+6Uhh, a frohawk? he isnt black...... did you mean faux?
        • badenglishihave, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1lol I didn't know that's what they were really called... all my friends call faux's frohawks. Not sure why.
        • stupidfilters, on 04/25/2008, -1/+1uh.... fauxhawk

          pronounced fo (long o) -hawk
    • MrBastian, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6Maybe, but his uber reproductive skills compensate for it
    • Conway, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1The teeth aren't much better.
    • nanded, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Judging by his kids, I think bad hair is genetic in his family.
    • xrEE, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3That hairstyle is common in the U.K
    • anotherjeff, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1well he is 17.
  • pirategonzo, on 04/25/2008, -1/+26The father looks like a nanny.
    • badenglishihave, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1I think we all know who wears the pants in THAT relationship.
    • trump48257, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7Hey at least we know that he has actually had sex, unlike many people 'round here.
      • pirategonzo, on 04/25/2008, -2/+0I don't know, DNA results aren't in yet
  • Duggan360, on 04/25/2008, -9/+4This made the front page cause they're very ugly babies =]
    • theotheragentm, on 04/25/2008, -1/+2No, they're three ugly babies that are each exactly as ugly as the next.
  • LiquidIse, on 04/25/2008, -1/+9Cue a new wave of porno searches in 5, 4...
  • DeMoNX4187, on 04/25/2008, -7/+2Article should be "One in a trillion chance". Bury me cause the whole family is odd looking...
    • xNav, on 04/25/2008, -3/+1Bury me.

      It's cuz they're british :)
      jokes.
  • OSUNItz, on 04/25/2008, -4/+11Are those 2 chicks?
  • chrgrose, on 04/25/2008, -2/+13They have the dude's eyes it seems.
  • lpmiller, on 04/25/2008, -0/+21which one is the evil one?
    • georgetds, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Trick question. Everyone knows that knows that the evil one is the baby that was not counted. They really would have to have been quintuplets, and the evil one's picture is not shown.
    • Bersy, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0All of them.
  • Ingestre, on 04/25/2008, -9/+3FUGLY!!!!!
  • Gullop, on 04/25/2008, -1/+15http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7366568.stm

    1 in 200 million
    • flonglonger, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1I like how 1 in a million is used inappropriately; this would mean there were maybe 300 sets of these in the United States, instead of maybe one or two per the odds.
    • Llanowar, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ...

      Better article, it states both the 1 in a million and 1 in 200 million. With a very short explanation.
    • BrendanSheehan, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1So the population of the earth is 6,671,226,000, divided by 200,000,000 = 33

      So only about 33 sets aline today then?
  • saywat2587, on 04/25/2008, -5/+4They all look weird as hell besides the mother but the baby on the left looks like an alien.
  • cynicaldiatribe, on 04/25/2008, -11/+4Too bad they're all ugly as sin.
  • mamboboy, on 04/25/2008, -2/+24Those kids look baked
  • Classico, on 04/25/2008, -11/+8Those are some ugly babies.
  • meccaworld2002, on 04/25/2008, -3/+1I went to high school with identical triplets. Saginaw, MI. Arthur Hill High School. 1 in a million is not that high. They are making it seem like it is a high number.
  • designer, on 04/25/2008, -18/+2Three more drains on society and the environment. Abortion is the answer.
    • corneliusJones, on 04/25/2008, -0/+11abort yourself, *****
    • sanosuke001, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Yes, the population growth is out of control. I agree there should be some kind of control. But if you have triplets naturally, it's not your fault and aborting them would be wrong. I do believe if they didn't want the children or that having one would put the child's life in jeopardy (ie. poor family) then it might be warranted. But just because they happen to have had triplets doesn't mean you should come off as an *****.
    • 80hd, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1birth control in the water supply is fine by me
  • Ganja420, on 04/25/2008, -3/+3one in a million pssshh....
    check this out..

    I've got identical twin Aunts, who married a set of brothers, and one of the couples ended up birthing identical triplets...
  • protomor, on 04/25/2008, -7/+3Why do british people have the highest occurrence of medical oddities in the world? If you ever go to the discovery health channel and see all the disabled ppl or mentally screwed up people, they are always british!
    • zakatov, on 04/25/2008, -1/+9Cuz US got all the fat ones
    • AntzNZ, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Most documentarys that I've watched have been from the UK. I even watched one the other day about that shooting "Massacre at Virginia Tech" and it was from the UK.
      • newnie, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1actually when it comes to most multiple births occur in vietnam, thanks to the after math of agent orange
  • Ingestre, on 04/25/2008, -5/+0The father kinda looks like a really stoned, flesh and blood pac-man?
  • Sinudeity, on 04/25/2008, -8/+3No offense mom and dad...
    Hehe, but those are the ugliest kids I've ever seen in my life!
    Send me a pic when they turn 18.
  • CowCow, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8This is more newsworthy: Maryland Woman Gives Birth to Quadruplets, 3 of them identical.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_fe_st/od ...
  • joel8x, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8I would say there was a 1 in a million chance that that father likes girls. How did they miss the obvious story?
  • nixfu, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1'It was a million to one shot, doc, million to one.'


    http://video.aol.com/video-detail/it-was-a-million ...
  • MrOdwin, on 04/25/2008, -1/+25Post partum triplet belly.
    http://theshapeofamother.com/Total%20belly%20time% ...
    Mmmmmmmm.
  • abieraHEHE, on 04/25/2008, -2/+0Ack!!
    The dude looks like he's gonna eat someone..
  • bernmeister, on 04/25/2008, -2/+5I welcome our Identical triplet overlords.
  • arizonagroove, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8The title is inaccurate, there is no description and the link is to an image as opposed to an actual story. But apart from that the submitter of this story did a really good job.
  • TriSight, on 04/25/2008, -3/+7What the hell... the parents look like they are 12
  • Phoenix219, on 04/25/2008, -2/+5How old are these parents? They look 16.
    • mamboboy, on 04/25/2008, -4/+1Welcome to England
    • Electric_Sheep, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2Read the article.

      Carmela Testa, 23, her fiancé Richard Rees, is 22.

      And she's a midwife.
  • jab2980, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3I went to school with identical triplets. They were NOT HOT. I like how all these kids inherited their father's fauxhawk.
  • cbartlett, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5From the article: "I was very shocked. They weren’t planned."
    Let this be a lesson to you, kids. Birth control FTW.
    • georgetds, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3As if anyone reading this here is ever going to be concerned about needing to use birth control.
  • frostbyt, on 04/25/2008, -3/+19WOW! How did that woman on the right impregnate that woman on the left? Must have been a sperm giver somewhere.
  • SuminderJi, on 04/25/2008, -6/+4Three things I thought when I saw the picture.

    1) A million to one? That can't be right...
    2) Their from England (without looking at the co.uk)
    3) The middle baby is going to be the coolest.
  • Sinudeity, on 04/25/2008, -2/+2One in 3 million chance to actually have pretty identical triplets.
  • Rodalli, on 04/25/2008, -4/+1Jesus christ. I think I know what REALLY happened at Roswell, now.
  • MattFromSeattle, on 04/25/2008, -3/+2Apparently the chances of identical triplets goes up when the parents are related?
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