**The Eighteenth Day of the Fifth Month of the New Millenium Plus Five**

"CRAZE-ETH FOR MP3 PLAYERETHS STORING UP CATETHESTROPHIC AND IRREVERSIBLE-ETH HEARKENING DAMAGE FOR AN ENTIRE-ETH GENERATION!"

HECKLER: Brian the Wise! Didst Thou inventeth of the MP3 Player-eth?

BRIAN THE WISE: Yea! Of course-eth! Thee designeth it in Adobe-eth Photoshop and buildeth it in the garden shed one Sunday.

HECKLER: Thou work-eth on a Sunday?!?

BRIAN THE WISE: Nay, it wert Saturday.

HECKLER: But Thou spaketh that it wert Sunday.

BRIAN THE WISE: I wert mistaken-eth. It wert Saturday.

HECKLER: Thou maketh a mistake-eth?

BRIAN THE WISE: Nay. I wert distracted-eth by Roger - He art trying to pusheth past Thee with His fat arse.

HECKLER: Lo! It hath thusly been reportedeth that MP3 Playereths art turning out a generation of kids with catethestrophic and irreversible-eth hearkening damage! Art this true?

BRIAN THE WISE: THOU POOF!

HECKLER: Thee art nay a Poof! Whyforeart art Thou namething thee a Poof?

BRIAN THE WISE: POOOFF! That art pure Scandalismeth! POOOOOFFFFF!

HECKLER: Art that some kind of WAND Thou art wavething?

BRIAN THE WISE: NAY! POOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFF!

HECKLER: What art it then?

BRIAN THE WISE: Thee think-eth the damn thing art broken.

HECKLER: What art it?

BRIAN THE WISE: Er-eth...nothing. Go-eth away, thou sad little man!

HECKLER: Dost Thou not haveth an answer for-eth thee on the MP3 Playereths?

BRIAN THE WISE: Allst thou needeth to do-eth art to put Limiters in, adjusteth the rotationeth of the clickethwheel, fiddle-eth with the 1's and 0's, compresseth the file, decompresseth the file, compresseth it again, do-eth some simple algorithimeths and calculateth thou Kbps and it art soluble. It art simple-eth common-eth sense, though I, Brian the Wise, doubteth verily much whether thou and thoust audience haveth any common-eth sense!

HECKLER: That doth hearkeneth verily complicated-eth. Wouldst it not maketh more sense to turn-eth the volume down?

BRIAN THE WISE: Oh, go-eth away and puff-eth on a cigarette, thou irritating git.