comfort please?

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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.

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My mother was starting the first batch of a huge pile of washing one Thurs eve before a long 4 day bank holiday...back in the days when everything shut down until Tuesday. The radio was on, it was some time in the 70's. Realising with enormous exasperation that she had run out of her Comfort fabric conditioner she muttered, "Damn I've no idea where I'm going to get any Comfort at this time' At that moment the radio was playing a song called 'Just when I needed you most'...and the singer sang out the words."Where I'll find Comfort...God knows..."
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:14:08 +0000Coincidence ID:3983