Yoda pie chart comes from Garr's posterous, as noted. The bottom corner has a GraphJam.com credit but I haven't been able to find it there, just a Membase-from-GraphJam version somewhere in the depths of Google, and that one's a highly unattractive bar chart done in fast-food-restaurant red. This, however, is darned near perfect.
From the first season of the British television program, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie -- and every bit as funny as it was in 1989:
In Don't Mind Your Language..., published at www.stephenfry.com "years and years" later (in 2008), Fry referred to this television sketch:
...and if you know it, you’ll have to forgive the similarities between what I found to be a source of humour and what I am now apparently taking seriously. Actually the one doesn’t cancel out or refute the other. We can make fun of this kind of language about language and we can value it too. So bearing in mind that I am fully aware that I sound like the worst kind of pseudo-intellectual twazzock, let’s look at that distinction. There is language, the thing itself, the idea of language. And then there is this or that example of language in praxis, in use. There is Chess and there is this or that game of chess. The Game of Chess and that game of chess going on over there. There is language, the human capacity – ‘competence’ as Chomsky calls it, The Game of Language – and there is utterance, the actual instance of its use – this sentence for example. ...
Do read the whole thing.
Slowly, and with a box of expensive chocolates at your elbow.
Tip of the hat to a certain pair of affianced engineers, with whom this particular Dilbert strip seems to resonate hugely.
