Jimbo decided to give the machines a try. "I was a bit worried at first that by doing this I would be the cause of the end of the world somehow," he said, "but then I realized that I don�t care if the world ends." Jimbo put in his clothes, which he had been wearing every day for the previous seven years, and turned the machine on.

The results amazed Jimbo. "By some miracle, the clothes became completely clean," he said. "All the beer stains just vanished." Jimbo also noted that he had become so accustomed to his shirt being brown that he had forgotten that it was supposed to be white.

When Jimbo removed his clothes from the machine, they were wet. "But get this," he said. "I then transferred them to a different machine, and when I took them out of that one they were dry and warm."

Jimbo repeated the process again two weeks later, to see if the miraculous removal of stains was due to random chance. He got the same results. Jimbo�s religion, Random Chancism, has been unable to explain what happened. Jimbo has said, however, that two trials is not enough to prove that it is not random. "If this happens often enough, though, I�ll have to either start worshipping the washing machine, or I�ll have to burn myself as a heretic for engaging in un-random activities." Jimbo said.

Jimbo was unable to provide a man on the street with the cigarette he requested as Jimbo walked by last week. "I explained to him that the probability of my having a cigarette when I�m not a smoker is very low," said Jimbo, "but I checked anyway."