Working at a newspaper
in the late 80s, there was a bloke who worked on the presses who wasn't the brightest. Now, he was clearly hugely capable at his job, and did stuff I could never have done in a million years, but was still given to asking stuff like "Why haven't they given us one of those typewriters with the TVs on them yet?"

One day I turned up with the paperback collection of all the Monty Python TV scripts. Now, the thing about this was that Series 1 was printed one way up and Series 2 the other, so that when you've finished one, you turned the book over and started reading from the other side. So he picked this up, and stared at it, and stared at it some more, then opened it, turned it over, opened it again, turned it over, opened it, turned it over, opened it again and handed it back to me asking "How the hell do they do something like that?" Which I would tend to regard as a fairly reasonable question from LITERALLY ANYONE WHO DID NOT OPERATE PRINTING PRESSES FOR A LIVING.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)