What is this? Lets get at Oldspice week???
Knighty, whilst talking about dim students, one of my treasures, did the following:
He was supposed to interpret and paraphrase the following passage:
Charles Babbage was driven by the idea of designing mechanical devices that could calculate multiple mathematical tables and he was iinspired by the industrial progress in the age of steam.
He interpreted it thus:
Charles Babbage was steam driven.