On: US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box

[ridgeguy]

Who knew the Marines teach Shakespearean tactics?

"Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane"

Macbeth, Act V, Scene III

[optimalsolver → ridgeguy]

That it turned out to just involve regular men with branches stuck to their heads annoyed JRR Tolkien so much that he created the race of Ents.

[ben_w → optimalsolver]

I heard the same about caesarean ("none of woman born") becoming a human woman and a male hobbit ("No man can kill me!").

[PhasmaFelis → ben_w]

I don't know if that's true, but I want it to be true, because the very same thing pissed me off when I read Macbeth in high school.