“This is starting to get ridiculous. Next someone will claim that he worked on an original Babbage Difference Engine.”
For this to work you have to read it in an “old geezer telling his grandson about when he was a kid” voice .....
“Babbage difference engine you say? Why in MY day we didn’t have those fancy wind up computers. We used the CABBAGE Difference Engine. If you wanted to know the difference between 10 and 7, you put 10 cabbages on the desk, and then you took 7 of them off the desk. What was left was the difference. And we liked it!”
Yep....an old geezer here!