21st March 2005, 5:19 PM
No I got it, but you didn't get MY joke, which was basically feigned ignorance of YOUR joke which in and of itself was feigned ignorance of HIS joke.
"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)