<bq author="Eric Lippert" source="Fabulous Adventures in Coding" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/11/09/three-umpires.aspx" caption="Three Umpires">Three baseball umpires are having lunch together. The first umpire says 'Well, a lot of them are balls, and a lot of them are strikes, but I always calls 'em as I sees 'em.' The second umpire says 'Hmph. I calls 'em as they are.' The third umpire slowly looks at his two colleagues and declares 'They ain't nothin' until I calls 'em.'</bq>