> I'm not sure how useful strings outside of programming are...

As a result of this thread:

My 8 year old son walks up and asks "What are you watching?"

"I am watching a lecture on how computers manipulate strings.  Do you 
know what a string is?"

"Sure," he replies, "it's a piece of rope!"

grinning,
Daniel
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