Table parsing, old friend

Some comments I found in code once:

    # Table parsing, old friend... We have spent many long evenings together,    
    # working through your broken tables, talking about your issues with         
    # implicit thead elements, and your quirky tr/th heuristics. But ... but     
    # but it's time for us to move on. We can't keep doing this. It's not you,   
    # it's me...                                                                 
    #                                                                            
    # I've ... I've met someone new. She's beautiful, she's modern, and she's    
    # elegant. She's logical, she's clean, and she's well-structured, if you     
    # know what I mean...                                                        
    #                                                                            
    # She always puts a single tr in her thead's, and what's more, she's always  
    # got a thead. Her tbody's support her tr's, and she never forgets them.     
    # Life is simpler now. Better. Less miscommunication, fewer arguments over   
    # what defines a header row. Sometimes it lasts in parsing code, but         
    # sometimes, it hurts instead...                                             
    #                                                                            
    # IF YOU EXTEND THIS CODE TO SUPPORT YOUR BROKEN HTML
    # TABLES I WILL FIND YOU. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!  

Thanks to Pete for much amusement.

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