5 Year Gap

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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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While travelling around Europe in1975 with my boyfriend, we stopped for food at a well known travelers cafe, in Istanbul, Turkey, called The Pudding Shop. We sat talking to an older American man, Bill, who was travelling alone, and sending back reports of his trip by fax, to his friends who ran a Holiday Inn back in America. 5 Years later, now married to said boyfriend, we were visiting the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Having lunch in the Holiday Inn next to the pyramids, my husband spotted this man sitting in the corner. "That's Bill!" he said and went over and tapped him on the shoulder. Bill immediately turned round looked at my husband and said, "The Pudding Shop!".
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:53:32 +0000Coincidence ID:5170