19th March 2007, 4:31 PM
"This outfit was a joke gift, but when the washing machine is broken and you reach the bottom of the drawer, joke's over."
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)