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Hilarity... present. Urge to learn... rising? What sort of satanic humour is this?
On that note, here's a fun quote from devilpedia.
Edit - The one with George Orwell was pure brilliance. And actually now I look I've been to that site before but somehow didn't catch any of those...
On that note, here's a fun quote from devilpedia.
Charles Babbage said:Babbage once contacted the poet Alfred Tennyson in response to his poem "The Vision of Sin". Babbage wrote, "In your otherwise beautiful poem, one verse reads,
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment one is born.
... If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest [that the next version of your poem should read]:
Every moment dies a man,
Every moment 1 1/16 is born.
Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry."
Edit - The one with George Orwell was pure brilliance. And actually now I look I've been to that site before but somehow didn't catch any of those...