21st October 2005, 4:12 AM
But ham is now a unit of measurement! That has to stand for something in this crazy mixed up world of imps and business cats.
"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)