Lewis Carroll School of of Logical Reduction (An Audition)

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Six days ago was May 4th...

And this pun was repeated everywhere
the English language is to heard: 

MAY THE FOURTH 
BE WITH YOU

Happy were those
who celebrated
Star Wars Day.









Today is May 10th But Nobody is Saying...

MAY THE FIFTH
HALF DAY
BE WITH 
YOU

 until now!



IMAGINE A CLASSROOM...where a teacher writes today's date on the board.

Then the teacher utters an F-word..."It's a Fraction!"

In grade school classrooms, across the United States,  there is no greater anxiety-invoking
intimidating F-word than FRACTION.

Were that teacher to be the GoodFather of Math, he would proceed accordingly:

Today's date is overweight...This is true for exactly eleven days of the year...
And what is overweight should be reduced. Students, do you agree?

Is it hard to imagine Students reacting with puzzled silence? 

But where there is puzzlement, there is curiosity which is 
a helluva lot better thing to have than anxiety. 
Reader, do you agree?

Since the world is full of list-making humans, 
the teacher now makes a list on the board... 

February 4 =   2/4
March 6     =   3/6
April 8       =   4/8
May 10      =   5/10
June 12      =   6/12                  In each case, the day is twice the month
July 14       =   7/14
August 16   =  8/16                  but  when the date "impersonates" a fraction
Sept. 18      =   9/18   
Oct. 20       =  10/20                 the bottom is twice the top
Nov. 22       = 11/22
Dec. 24       = 12/24

The last of these overweight dates is Christmas Eve but let us now reduce these fraction
thingies so that even the day before Xmas looks like the morning after New Year's Day:

JANUARY 2      =

That which is 1/2 is also  "one half"

or just plain old... HALF
 

 .............Have a Halfy Day.............

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