Tower of Babel

From Encyclopedia Of Stupid

The Tower of Babel was stupid.

As the story goes, sometime before 1975, a bunch of people constructed this big building. Thinking they would get to heaven, or some such delusion, and thinking a bit more highly of themselves than the Big Sky God would like, they got squished. Since there were apparently no psychotropic medications available at the time, the best thing the Big Guy could come up with was to addle their speech centers so that each of the accursed narcissists spoke some strange new language and send them scurrying all over the planet.

So, I suppose that we should be careful as we build ever taller cities. The moral of the story is that if you're going to build a skyscraper, it's important that your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top. Otherwise we might piss off the God of Everything and that whole unicode thing is going to have to be sorted out all over again.