Prize for the funniest thing I’ve heard anyone say for… oh, months (at least) goes to Rob Churm. It is kind of geeky I suppose but I almost pissed myself laughing.
We were watching top evolutionary biologist and all round clever Richard Dawkins on Channel 4’s Root Of All Evil explaining to people who might not have realised it yet that all religion is nothing more than an absurd delusion. And a good program it was too. Anyway…
During one sequence there was footage of some chimpanzees doing chimpanzee things in that kind of half human, half comedy way that primates behave. We were laughing at the main chimp which was covered in bald patches for no apparent reason, when Rob turned round and said:
Monkeys are MS Dos… humans are Windows 2000.
It doesn’t look very funny now that I read it but at the time I almost fell off my seat. Maybe you have to be watching a chimp when you think about it.