10th September 2008, 5:38 PM
Stupid? It was clever commentary on how real life people argue. It's only stupid because people in real life are, by and large, idiots.
"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)