10th August 2003, 1:46 PM
That weird desire to buy something you already own when you see it all shiny and new in the store took hold and you couldn't fight back with your common sense!
"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)