And BTW....100 is a terrible "real" answer for the vomit question.
First of all, think of how many times you vomited as a kid, even if you're going to disregard "spitting up", you know you had those damn 24-48 hour bugs a bunch as a kid. That's probably once every other year or so...so let's say 10-20 minimum during your school days.
Then think about how many times you vomited during your wild college nights. That's gotta be AT LEAST 5 times per year. So you're lookin at 20-25 just in those 4-5 years combined. And that's just a mild partier. I know some of you frat boys probably vom'd 3-4 times/month. Which puts you at 20-30 times or more each school year.
Then there's food poisoning, which I think an average person probably gets at least once during their life, maybe twice.
Then, average person lives to 79-80. Even once a year puts you at 10+20+80=110 or 20+25+80=125. Those are baselines.
Then you have to figure in the KEY in all of this. That a majority of times when you vomit from sickness, or food poisoning, you are vomiting more than once in that given time frame. I'd say 2-4 times per. So take out 40% of the above numbers for single-instance drunken vomits, or just overall single-vomit instances, then double the rest for a minimum number. That's 66-75 times where you vomit at least twice.
So when you factor it all in, it's [66 (multiple vomits) *2 + 44 (40% single vomits) = 176 (min)] to [75 (multi) *2 + 50 (40% single vomits) = 200 (max)]
And that's just if you vomit twice for each illness/food poisoning. If you up it to 3 or 4, its 240-300.
So, it's obvious, 200 was the correct answer for a lower-end, average vomit-er. The math is there.
/my irrational thesis on vomiting
Good post, and I wonder what the "real" answer is, but since college, I haven't vomited anywhere near once per year. I don't think I have vomited for 15 years.
