Whaaaat
My math textbook has an odd thing about giving their example-people weird names. And I don't mean like inserting ethnically diverse names into problems for political correctness or anything- I mean there's a problem about one "Christopher Sparrow" building a roof using the Pythagorean Theorem. Then there's the one "Joseph Blackarrow" measuring the length of a river using trigonometry. Yes, they give full names for two example characters in the whole textbook.
Why? No other examples get this treatment. They can be Bob or Sally or Brian or Sue or Billy, or maybe a Bartolo or Songan here and there. But "Joseph Blackarrow?" I think the writers just did this because they knew one kid per class (me) would get freaked out about it. They're probably looking at me now, laughing.
"Oh, ho, look at little Wrinkledlion X! He cannot control himself! Aha, ahaha!"
But I'll get them back. I'll get back by putting fake names in the "Issued To" column. Show them!
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