Availability of Songs,Rainbow connections & Cheezits Freaks etc.
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
In 2006, I woke up on a Saturday with the song "I Don't know Why I Love You But I Do" going through my head. I had not recently heard this song, nor was it one of my favorites. I dialed a local pet supply store and they put me on hold-- the hold music playing? You guessed it, and even more amazingly, in the same spot as it was in my head at the time. About two years later, my 11 year-old daughter excitedly told me to look at a rainbow outside. When I came back in, the radio was playing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland. A few minutes later, my daughter climbed on the kitchen counter to get a glass, when I immediately told her to "Get down. Down!" At that instant, the radio was playing Frank Sinatra's "That Old Black Magic" and was at the part that goes "and down and down I go, into a spin..." I told her, "See? Even Frankie is telling you to get down!"
About a year after that, I was on my way to work taking a route I'd taken hundreds of times. I had on my music player a song called "Jesus Freak" by DC Talk. I began singing a loud parody of the words saying, "What will people say when they label me a CHEEZITS freak". In the road ahead I noticed an obstacle approaching-- a rather large box. As I got closer I realized it was a very big multi unit box of the type used by grocers to contain smaller sized boxes. Emblazoned on the side was the word "CHEEZITS"! I'd never encountered such a thing in the 20 years of travelling that road.
Lastly, my daughter and I were discussing with my wife her constant mispronunciation of the word "available" which she pronounces "availiable". We were in the car, all repeating the word when I turned to see a sign in a vacant lot with the single word "Available" on it.
Date submitted:Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:08:47 +0000Coincidence ID:6257