24th August 2007, 12:59 PM
I think Pet "S"emetary would be a better example, since that has an actual kid, but I was actually talking about the recent fad more than the origin of the idea.
"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)