Accounting Error
Satan is paying a diplomatic visit to St. Peter. They sip tea together in St. Peter's palatial office, and Satan gazes out of the wall-sized window at the cloudscape beyond with its bewinged, behaloed and beharped inhabitants. He spots Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa, Morecambe and Wise, Alan Turing, Tamburlaine —— "You've got Tamburlaine? He's meant to be one of ours."
— "Head Office computerised our accounting functions. They sacked the Recording Angel and replaced him by a cumulated–sin-score spreadsheet. But the Excel developer missed some cells out of the SUM range. It's fixed now, but no-one noticed the bug for years —"
He gestures, and Satan sees Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler, Milošević, ...
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