01/15/2005: "Boggelisk - Nevermind THAT guy."
As a child, I recall such programs as Sesame Street, and... well, Sesame Street. Particularly the segments on learning (1-2-3-4,5, 6-7-8-9, 10, 11-12!). At one point I envisioned a part stick-figure, part monkey-man caricature (called a boggelisk), which would scream unintelligibly at the television audience. After disemboweling, or devouring a stickman, a kind voiced narrator would come on, and indicate the math problem which described this stick man's murder. The most usual operation? Subtraction. Division makes a few appearances, also.
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Oh, and never mind that guy. I had a torn edge of paper, and needed to fill up some space. What better to do so with than a narcoleptic Argentinean sitar player?
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