29th July 2003, 4:03 PM
I never once claimed that was my own joke, and don't dare insult the Daily Show by saying my particular ruining of a joke via my bad memory is a "direct quote"! You should know by now that about 50% of what I say is in fact quoted stuff! The whole point is you get it, like when I say stuff like...
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"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)