12th September 2008, 8:09 PM
I heard the current origin story is that all the previous origin stories were told by the Joker himself and he's got no idea which one's true either.
"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)