![]() Richards.Ĭurrently Reading: Mythmaster, Leo P Kelley. Source: Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History, E.G. Trivia: The Little Armenian calendar counts from the Julian date 11 August 1084. Deep down I still do, but I've learned it also has lemurs, who presumably run the mines. ![]() As a child I believed Madagascar was just a huge place full of papier maché mines. While I never read many Scrooge McDuck comics, one that lodged in my mind had the gang in need of papier maché and so they went to Madagascar for it. The university has a lot of ``field day'' type events, with loud noises and parades and such, so I'm guessing one is forthcoming. ![]() I believe the purpose - there was no one around to ask - is to make a parade float. Also by the side, drying out, were cardboard rectangles painted red, I suppose so the dragon could polarize its hull plating. So it was more a tube of Straits Times fragments, with a nice tail curl. ![]() Assembled was an odd bending tube that looked like a partly unravelled paperclip, maybe a foot and a half wide and about five feet tall, covered in papier maché. That it was a dragon is a guess on my part. I like to think my life isn't significantly stranger than anyone else's, which is why I was annoyed to find a dragon on the third floor when I went out for a can of Milo. ![]()
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