30th March 2008, 2:10 AM
To the point where people assume a clever joke or sarcasm where none was intended or point out something everyone already got ahead of time. Yeah, the internet killed that expression.
"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)