Friends of the owners of the B&B/winery I was staying at stopped by to taste some wine & pick up their summer bottles. Teddy, a big, jovial guy, was talking about the Roman aqueducts he and his wife visited some years back — those marvels of human engineering:

Teddy: “They had to calculate it all just right — the grade, the flow, everything — from 200 miles away!”

<brief pause>

Teddy: “And they didn’t even have ZERO back then!”

<I pinch my nose shut to prevent a lovely cabernet sauvignon from squirting out of it. Because, although correct, that was damned funny.>

#nerdtopia