19th July 2003, 4:56 PM
And according to Dextor's dog translator, the occasional neighborhood-wide barking of everyone's dogs in the middle of the night translates as:
"HEY! I CAN HEAR YOU BARKING! HEY DOGS! HEY! HEEEY! CAN YOU HEAR ME BARKING? I CAN HEAR YOU BARKING! HEY CAN YOU HEAR ME? HEY!"
"HEY! I CAN HEAR YOU BARKING! HEY DOGS! HEY! HEEEY! CAN YOU HEAR ME BARKING? I CAN HEAR YOU BARKING! HEY CAN YOU HEAR ME? HEY!"
"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)