28th August 2003, 12:22 AM
What does mastication have to do with someone's wrists? I mean, managing the forks and such to get food TO the mouth might eventually take a toll but...
"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)