10th October 2005, 3:12 PM
Nah, that stamp tells him all he needs to know. It's just that the guy doesn't trust his own memory when the stamp, the STAMP! The almighty authority of the stamp! And the first time you meet him your hand isn't stamped.
"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)