Good title indeed. And I like the quote, too. You know that a non-geek probably wouldn't understand the infinite loop joke.
Yeah.
Of course, the geek side of my then proceeded to overanaylyze the joke..."man, that's a poor mental implementation of the spec...he must not be checking for error conditions like 'out of shampoo'!"
My COBOL teacher showed us a rare videotape of a speech made by Grace Hopper in which she addressed the "lather, rinse, repeat" problem at length. I'm sure someone out there tried to do their thesis on it.
Maybe when he got low on shampoo he started rationing, Zeno-like-- he'd use half of the shampoo that was left, then half of what's left...
But then it would break down on the Lather step. I bet the poor bastard had torn all his hair out before he starved.