The 'closest to' business is like all web 'old wive's tales' - based on a cognitive misconception. Human beings are, at their basis, pattern recognizing and pattern matching automatons - it's what we do! But, people have a nearly impossible time understanding randomness, or statistical inference - it violates our 'pattern integrity', so we assign meaning to meaningless events... The source of superstition, and probably religion, too - "the Shaman prayed to the Great Lord Mota, and such happened!" People also have a vague (if any) grasp of what's going on at the hardware level - in fact, most recent graduates of our lovely educational system cannot tell you why, when you unscrew the living room lightbulb, and turn on the switch, the electricity doesn't run out on the living room floor! Somebody, somewhere, sometime, had a bad connector, or a bad jack, and when he plugged it in 'next to the PS2' (which makes no sense or difference physically - they're all just hardware 'hung off' the southbridge) it worked! ...And, yet another legend was born... He posted it somewhere, and some other dipstick read it, and it made some kind of sense to him, so he posted it again - and the rest is history... That's one of the resons I spend so much time here, trying to make issues that are, at their roots, hardware realities, clearer and easier to understand for the 'lay' user...