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What Are The Odds?

Oh no, it's The Morning Line

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May 07, 2023
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There’s a shaggy dog story about a guy who's scared of flying by aeroplane and nothing works to convince him that he's quite safe. The punchline is that he eventually pins his fears upon the scenario where there’s a bomb on board the flight. And after seeing a statistician who tells him the odds are astronomically weighted against a bomb being on board …

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