12th March 2004, 10:39 PM
There's the green thing and the drinking thing for some. What else? I can't even tell what the religious meaning is. Something to do with chasing snakes or something?
"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)