29th December 2004, 6:43 PM
I thought this would be a thread with some witty remark about the concept of birthdays.
You know, something like "What's with celebrating the day someone is born? What, are we supposed to give people stuff because they managed to not die for a whole year?" or "Why birthdays and not conception days? Is it because society doesn't want kids to know how they came to exist?" and then someone chimes in "Um, no because it's really hard to know when someone was actually concieved, you know, in the more Catholic families anyway.".
You know, something like "What's with celebrating the day someone is born? What, are we supposed to give people stuff because they managed to not die for a whole year?" or "Why birthdays and not conception days? Is it because society doesn't want kids to know how they came to exist?" and then someone chimes in "Um, no because it's really hard to know when someone was actually concieved, you know, in the more Catholic families anyway.".
"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)