Negative Number Confusion

I feel that most people I tell about this article are starting to think that I'm spinning some sort of tale. Now admittedly, that's not massively unlike me, I'm quite happy to build up a lot of story around the telling of a simple joke, but for once this is really true - read this story from the Manchester Evening News all the way back from 2007.

My favourite quote has to be,

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it."

but I must admit it wouldn't be half as funny if it didn't have a "I'm not having it" at the end. It's almost enough to make a maths teacher give up and go home...