I was in a car on the way to a meeting with 3 colleagues, we were going to check out a knowledge-base software package. Someone asked what the is difference between a knowledge-base and a data-base (clearly we were the right people to make this decision).
The programmer amongst us launched into a detailed explanation of file formats and meta data, and during the course of his monologue he used the unfortunate word “repository” which makes one think of “suppository”.
It didn’t take long, in a car full of boys, for the conversation to deteriorate into what can best be described as ‘bottom humour’.
One of us was a medic in the army when he was much younger and he made the statement that an anal suppository gives the quickest absorbency for medicating pain, quicker even than an IV injection. That brought the conversation to an abrupt halt. I was considering the absurdity of the fact and wondering if there was not an algorithm or something to be applied (I wondered if perhaps burglars got in and our quicker on average if they broke in via the back door as opposed to those who broke in via the front door… I’m still wondering).
Just then it dawned on me… how on earth did that situation evolve?
I do not believe in the evolution of species myself, but I wondered if there was someone with the medical knowledge, a medical knowledge-base if you will, to explain what the advantage is of the ‘back end’ absorbing nutrients that are supposed to be on their way out quicker and more effectively than the ‘front end’, which is supposed to absorb nutrients?
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