From my Navy days, the Executive Officer complained about something I hadn't done the way he wanted. When I responded: "Same thing, only different," he said: "It can't be the same thing only different. It's either the same, or it's different." When I told him it could, he asked me to prove it. I told him the following: "suppose you stuck your nose up my ass. Look where we'd be: I'd have a nose up the ass, you'd have a nose up the ass. Same thing, only different." The Exec turned beet red, but the Captain was laughing so hard that the Exec was powerless to do anything about it.