7th April 2006, 12:15 PM
lazyfatbum Wrote:back in my day we simply called it 'stress' from 'acting your best' while in a social situation. The extreme to that is people who change their entire personalities while around people, and get even more tired afterwards.
What? No, read that again. This isn't anything like that.
"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)