Seen elsewhere ...
@ColinTheMathmo Such machines wouldn’t become widely available, however, until after the 1989 release of Belgian techno-anthem “Pump up the Jam”
@ColinTheMathmo 🤌🤌🤌 Cunk is magnifico! Bharles Cabbage paid a steep price for his legacy
@falcennial @ColinTheMathmo Bharles Cabbage backed up Gnarles Barkley on tour once, I think.

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Also from a long time ago, on a different platform:

I invented a device for telling brassicas apart
I called it my "cabbage difference engine”

@ColinTheMathmo this invention truly was a turing point.
@ColinTheMathmo he should know that the incessant autocorrection of what to why is worse than his vegetable issues
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FWIW, that's Philomena Cunk
Cunk on Britain "The Third Episode"

YouTube
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13.30 is Darwin's theory in a nutshell: "Animals that are dead are less likely to reproduce than one's that are alive"
@ColinTheMathmo @isotopp Philomena FTW!
@hengstenberg @ColinTheMathmo @isotopp
Ach! I should have read the thread - I couldn't remember the first name. I knew it wasn't Willamina, but...
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The Jacquard machine. Punch cards in 1804.
The Kepler museum in Weil der Stadt, DE has a replica of his c. 1600 calculator. 3 rotating vertical columns.

@ColinTheMathmo I remember when Word for Windows would correct "Novell Netware" to "novel knitwear", and "Unisys" to "anuses".

(Which, given the GIF patent war, was probably valid.)

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I think that's Cunk on Earth?
Never saw that one, but it looks like her and has the same humour.