good ole Elton

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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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at home I, like lots of sad men have my own study full of men things like vinyls, tapes, cds, DVDs, computers, magazines, loads of books etc etc, it's my room. I'm apt to play music very loud on my very loud music playing device. My room is covered in shelves and on top of those shelves are my large heavy speakers. Well a few years ago I arrived home from work, got fed by my beloved wife and retired to my room. I decided to put a cd on and the track playing at the time of my coincidence was turned up really loud, after turning away from my music system to look for a book on a shelf, pulled out the book and turned around to sit on my seat. As I did this movement the speaker came off the shelf and missed my head by width of a hair, I felt the downward draft of the heavy speaker, and crashed on the floor. A very near miss. My head would have been very very sore possibly a bit more serious that a severe headache. And the track playing on the music system..........Someone saved my life tonight by Elton John this is a true story, trust me regards Malcolm Carter Braintree, Essex
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Date submitted:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:48:53 +0000Coincidence ID:5759