>>(of course I mean "the machine that goes 'ping'", by Pythons)
Busted- I mashed together the Python machine that goes ping, with a grandiose $-generating machine running the populace ragged to little purpose from Dr Seuss. Thus I amuse myself: small things amuse small minds. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1