4th March 2004, 8:56 PM
No, it at least makes sense to the writer. ASM doesn't even know what he means most of the time (ever tried quoting him back to himself? It's FUNNY). It was a joke about how fables are just exxagerated versions of old stories. Or is that legends? Myths? Eh, they're interchangeble...
"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)