21st June 2005, 7:56 PM
At this point I think one of us is actually EXPECTED (by Americans in general) to respond with something like "yeah, the hair is all wrong", and then the canned laughter starts and everyone claps and I die a little inside...
"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)