A British Airways flight was going to Tehran from London. When it gets close to Tehran it starts having some kind of trouble. The pilot contacts the air tower at Tehran airport and asks for help: “Tehran, this Captain Smith, British Airways flight 000, do you read?”
“flight 000, dis iz tehran felight contorol, go ahead” “tehran, this is flight 000, we have a problem” “dis iz tehran, vat kind of peroblem?” “this is flight 000, we have lost power to our engines, please advise” “dis iz tehran, i reed you, peleez check some things for me, ok?” “this is flight 000, go ahead” “dis iz tehran, can you get emergency pover to your engines?” “this is flight 000, negative, no power is available” “dis iz tehran, can you peleez bering your altitu tde to 20,000 feet?” “this is flight 000, negative, our wing controls do not respond” “dis iz tehran, can you peleez see if you can lower your veels?” “this is flight 000, negative, landing gears are stuck” “dis is tehran, vould you peleeze repeet thez words after me” “this is flight 000, go ahead” “dis iz Tehran, repeat thez words peleeze: AShado ana la elAha elallAh wa aShado ana Mohammadan rasul AllAh”
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving
to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe
trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is winning