The Elderberries by Corey Pandolph and Phil Frank and Joe Troise for May 10, 2022
May 09, 2022
May 11, 2022
Transcript:
Boone: Say, Miss Overdunne... what if I touch the wrong spot on the screen? Evelyn: Or some electronic bug messes up your votes? Miss Overdunne: Please!! Everyone!! Election officials have assured me these machines were designed and tested to be foolproof! Professor: Wouldn't that depend on the level of fool that they tested it on? Dusty: Good point, Perfessor. It's Election Day at a polling station near Elderpark:
angelolady Premium Member over 2 years ago
Very good point. Did this testing use a cross-section of fools?
Maizing over 2 years ago
Don’t try to make anything foolproof. Fools are so ingenious.
pathfinder over 2 years ago
It’s been my experience that making anything “foolproof” just encourages Mother Nature to bring a better fool to the party. Kinda like “Hold my beer.”
derdave969 over 2 years ago
I worked in software design (mainframes). We did our best to make the interface idiot proof. The idiots kept proving we couldn’t.
erstwhilebc over 2 years ago
The fools are the ones you’ll have to choose from.
ajr58(1) over 2 years ago
If you make it idiot proof, someone will just invent a better idiot.
edreajr over 2 years ago
As some wit once said: “You can’t make things foolproof. Fools are too ingenious.”