“Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white."”

— Humphrey Lyttelton

OK who's going to identify that?
The Guardian, Saturday 26 April 2008

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English jazz trumpeter 1921–2008

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