18th September 2004, 9:18 PM
Leeches... pfft, nature's looser blood suckers... Oddly enough, they don't seem to like a fire poker in their side.
"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)