Monty Python REST joke (via blockquote).

SEMANTIC KNIGHT:
 None shall pass without formally defining the ontological
meta-semantic thingies of their domain something-or-others!
HACKER:
 What?
SEMANTIC KNIGHT:
 None shall pass without using all sorts of semantic
meta-meta-meta-stuff that we will invent Real Soon Now!
HACKER:
 I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I must get my
work done on the Web. Stand aside!
SEMANTIC KNIGHT:
 None shall find anything on the Internet without semantic metadata!
HACKER:
 So be it!
HACKER and SEMANTIC KNIGHT:
 Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc.
 [HACKER chops the SEMANTIC KNIGHT's first argument off by building
efficent statistical/heuristic search engines]
HACKER:
 Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
SEMANTIC KNIGHT:
 'Tis but a scratch.
HACKER:
 A scratch? Your argument has been cut off!
SEMANTIC KNIGHT:
 No, it isn't.