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   From: rimagen@toast.net   
      
   Igenlode Wordsmith wrote:   
      
   > So they were going for a last desperate million-to-one chance... and   
   > stacking the odds as far as possible against themselves to make   
   > absolutely sure it couldn't be, say, a 999,943-to-one chance? ;-)   
      
   Well, million-to-one chances *do* come off nine times out of ten...   
      
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