He may be a fool but he was being a very clever fool
- agreed, but I was only looking at his understanding of the term 'black box' ie "my wife puts my in-flight sarnies in a black plastic box, therefore it must be part of the avionics equipment". I suspect that to give him credit for deliberately using the term to 'mislead' is allocating undue credit?
I had not come across this little gem before.