18th April 2010, 12:52 AM
Imagine in the distant future when some history teacher, desperate to get their student's attention, brings up, in as dry a fasion as possible, how "back around the turn of the millenium, people often would describe how daring or courageous someone is by saying they have "large" or "great" testicles.
And then the kids would laugh and joke about how maybe us 2000-ites weren't so stuffy and boring after all, we had our potty humor just like they did, but they'd do it in a stuffy pretend-2000 accent they assume we all speak with.
And then the kids would laugh and joke about how maybe us 2000-ites weren't so stuffy and boring after all, we had our potty humor just like they did, but they'd do it in a stuffy pretend-2000 accent they assume we all speak with.
"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)