23rd July 2004, 2:37 PM
Yeah, the monarch of england is in fact a useless figurehead, contrary to the hilarious way they call her "the most powerful leader in the world" in that one movie with the spy played by Mr. Bean.
"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)