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"When you play with fire, there is a 50/50 chance that something will go wrong, and nine times out of ten it does."
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Posted by JT on 8 Oct 2009.
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Finally someone who realises statistics is complete bollocks.
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Posted by Socky on 8 Oct 2009.
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Shades of Terry Pratchett here...
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 9 Oct 2009.
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I thought it sounded familiar, but it's the sort of thing people say to be funny so I wasn't sure where I'd heard it.
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Posted by JT on 9 Oct 2009.
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I think Pratchett's variant was "million-to-one chances come up nine times out of ten", but of course he was talking about the Discworld, where that's probably perfectly true!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 9 Oct 2009.
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Also in that strange, subjective-reality world inhabited by those who regularly play the National Lottery.
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Posted by JT on 9 Oct 2009.
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