21st March 2004, 11:39 PM
One time I was talking to a person who personified extreme political correctness and, when describing the cultural differences between Americans and the Japanese, they accidently said "...whereas we humans...". I will NEVER let that person live that down...
"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)