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Old Thu Jan 03, 2019, 06:25pm
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Reading Is Fundamental ...

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Originally Posted by Raymond View Post
Never drove past the statue but I knew who Atlas was when I read the cartoon.
I looked at the drawing, noticed what the kid said, and the what the coach said, skimmed over the kid's name, and didn't think it was funny for several seconds until I realized the importance of the kid's name.

I did take several astronomy courses in college and graduate school and knew that the Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas.

And I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

But I still almost missed the joke by reading it too quickly.
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