Dan wrote:
>> int getRandomNumber()
>> {
>>     return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
>>               // guaranteed to be random.
>> }
> 
> ^^^ Priceless.  : D
> 
> That reminds of the ol' "find x" "here it is ----> x" picture going around.

Taken from XKCD: http://xkcd.com/c221.html

The author is one part geek, one part comedian and one part hopeless romantic.  The comic archive is *packed* with humor like this.

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- EricAnderton at yahoo

Dan wrote:
>> int getRandomNumber()
>> {
>>     return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
>>               // guaranteed to be random.
>> }
> 
> ^^^ Priceless.  : D

The original IBM random number generator was a bit like that. When a bug report was made, the response was:
"We guarantee that each number is random individually, but we don't guarantee that more than one of them is random."
- Numerical Recipes, chapter 7.