Every time I hear "this won't get Kevin to 218, but will get him closer!" I think of Monty Python.

"If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as the man and then compare the relative brain sizes, we now find that the penguin's brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it was!"

"This theory has become known as the 'Waste of Time Theory,' and was abandoned in 1956."