15th March 2005, 4:29 PM
"it is banal doctorine that in order to be truly humorous one must use prognostication and cleverly disguised rhetorical asseverations" seemed to be an insult of that sort of comedy... That last bit seems to describe the very thing I was saying was hilarity... To think that it was actually meant to address the stuff BEFORE that statement...
"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)