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Thread: Good Lord! They're going to put that toilet trader Turing on the £50 note!

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  1. #1
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    To be fair, I think he was pardoned a while back. Wrongly, in my opinion. The law of the day is the law. You can't just overlook that because a chap's good at maths.
    There was a war on, you know. All hands to the pump, as it were.

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    There was a war on, you know. All hands to the pump, as it were.
    Not when he was caught toilet trading there wasn't. Naturally one could turn a blind eye to these things in extremis, but not in perpetuity. No, I've no sympathy. Chemical castration was too good for him.

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    Quite b. The idea that the Turing Machine was an abstract computing device of

    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Not when he was caught toilet trading there wasn't. Naturally one could turn a blind eye to these things in extremis, but not in perpetuity. No, I've no sympathy. Chemical castration was too good for him.
    breathtaking genius is a common misconception. It was nothing more than a mechanical contraption he designed for the purpose of plunging a large wooden phallus into his bowels, leaving both hands free to tinker with his abacus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
    breathtaking genius is a common misconception. It was nothing more than a mechanical contraption he designed for the purpose of plunging a large wooden phallus into his bowels, leaving both hands free to tinker with his abacus.
    Gosh.I'm happy to bow to your superior knowledge on this one, h. Given what you say, I shudder to contemplate what the 'Turing Test' of which one hears so much entails. Vile bum perversions, no doubt.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Gosh.I'm happy to bow to your superior knowledge on this one, h. Given what you say, I shudder to contemplate what the 'Turing Test' of which one hears so much entails. Vile bum perversions, no doubt.
    If one wanted to join his team of number crunchers* one would simply be subjected, via his ungodly contraption, to a succession of phalli of increasing girth until one cried out for mercy at which point he would make his decision.

    *a coded reference to anyone prepared to fellate the deplorable old deviant.

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