The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
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I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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Birth: | 27th June, 1938 |
Death: | 18th October, 2007 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Humorist, Journalist, Satirist, Writer |
Alan Coren was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine. Alan Coren was born in Southgate, North London in 1938, the son of a plumber and a hairdresser.
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