31st January 2003, 9:42 PM
I don't know if there is a different kind of soap box then what I'm familiar with, but the image I always get when someone talks about standing on a soap box is some irish person standing on the box their bar of soap came in. This act lasts a hundredth of a second before the box collapses beneath the person.
"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)