27th February 2004, 5:59 PM
I guess I MIGHT have a "northern accent", but you know how it is, no one can tell what accent they have because that's just how they talk.
"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)