What's in a Name? Arthur


What's in a Name?

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# Every day when you're walkin' down the street

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# Everybody that you meet

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# Has an original point of view... #

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SHE LAUGHS

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-# ..And I say, hey!

-# Hey!

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# What a wonderful kind of day

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# If you can learn to work and play

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# And get along with each other

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# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

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# Listen to the rhythm The rhythm of the street

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# Open up your eyes! Open up your ears!

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# Get together and make things better by working together

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# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

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-# Believe in yourself

-# Believe in yourself

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# For that's the place to start

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-# And I say, hey!

-# Hey!

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# What a wonderful kind of day

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# If you can learn to work and play

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-# And get along with each other

-# Hey!

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# What a wonderful kind of day, hey! What a wonderful kind of day, HEY! #

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Hey, DW!

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-Hey!

-Whoa!

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THUD!

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Arthur, look what I got from Grandma!

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Please tell me you've already named it(!)

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Of course I haven't named it. Come on,

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we have to get started.

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Whenever DW gets a new stuffed animal or doll,

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I have to help her name it.

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And it's a very elaborate process.

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First, DW has to be blindfolded and spun around.

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Stop!

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All right, remove the blindfold.

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The first letter of the first thing she sees

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will be the first letter of the doll's name.

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Xylophone!

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X. Great(!) Only the toughest letter of the alphabet.

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A challenge! OK, let's make the naming potion.

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Then I mix the naming potion.

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Easy with the cinnamon!

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And she says...

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Nama-lama-lama,

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hoc-hic-moo!

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Then she kicks her legs while drinking from her curly straw...

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and takes a nap with the doll under her pillow.

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Next the doll is supposed to tell DW its name while she sleeps.

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Shades, please.

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-What is your name?

-Squawk!

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Tell me your name. Tell me!

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I demand to know!

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Sometimes this part goes on for a while but, eventually,

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DW catches the doll.

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PENGUIN WHISPERS

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Arthur, meet Xeno. Xeno, meet Arthur.

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Why are names so important to some people?

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Normally I just give out one Thinky a year,

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but this semester a student has improved so much,

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-I've decided to award a second one.

-Thank you!

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-Thank you...

-George, you won the last Thinky.

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You can't win two.

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Oh...sorry.

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-Binky...

-Uh? I was doing work!

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What's the question? The answer is 12.

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Binky, I didn't ask a question.

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This award is for you.

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Your grades are up and you've really been paying attention in class.

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Usually.

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I've won an academic award?!

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This has never happened to me.

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< She did not say that, Chip!

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Would you like to say a few words?

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Um, OK. I'd like to thank some other kids...

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< That is SO unfair!

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Arthur, you really helped with that project last week...

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-< ..Could do better than that!

-..and, and Brain, you've helped

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-with dance...I mean, math!

-MUFFY TALKS OVER HIM

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Muffy! Would you cut it out?

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Got to go! Congratulations!

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Miss Crosswire, not only have I told you not to bring your cellphone

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to school four times this year,

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but you have also been disrespectful to your classmate.

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You will not be allowed to go to recess for a week.

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-Instead you will stay here in class and do work.

-Oh!

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Binky, you can continue your speech on Monday morning.

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Starting today.

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Oh!

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Glad someone's here - although

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I don't know why you'd want to be inside on a day like this!

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It's the most beautiful Friday I've seen in years.

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One for the books. Not a cloud in the sky.

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And so much rain forecast too!

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Could you give this class list to Mr Ratburn? I want to make sure

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the names are spelled correctly.

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Ha, ha! Look at that - even the birds are smiling today.

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There I am! Mary Alice Crosswire.

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Shelley Barnes?! Who's Shelley B...

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Ohhhhh!

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Hm...

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Thanks for getting me in trouble.

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You should know better than to cross a Crosswire... Shelley.

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Who's Shelley?

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Hello! You!

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It's your real name. Don't you even know your real name?

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My name isn't Shelley.

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It is according to this official list.

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I made a copy. Won't everyone be surprised to learn that big bad Binky

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is actually just...Shelley!

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My name is NOT Shelley. That's just a silly typo.

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We'll see about that.

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Can't wait to hear the rest of your speech, Shelley.

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WHAT?! How come you never told me?

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I thought you knew. We called you Shelley up until you were two.

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But you loved your pacifier so much that we started calling you Binky.

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-And the name stuck.

-But I can't be Shelley!

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-Why not?

-Because I'm Binky!

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-Everybody thinks of me as Binky.

-I

-think of me as Binky.

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It's just a name, Sweetie.

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It's not just a name!

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Shelley's a terrible name! Think of all the things it rhymes with.

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Belly, smelly, Machiavelli!

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Well, you'll always be my little Binkums to me.

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Shelley will be our secret. BINKY GASPS

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Muffy...

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COMPUTER BEEPS "What do you want?

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"Just name it. You know who."

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"Revenge or a pony. Your choice."

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Ohhhhh.

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Binky, dinner!

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-I'm not hungry! ­

-SHE GASPS

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CHAT AND LAUGHTER

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-Ha, ha, ha!

-Statistically speaking,

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the chances of anything being funnier than this are zero!

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I thought I was the funniest thing in this class until he came along.

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That is enough. Now let's let Shelley give the speech that...

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Shelley has prepared. HE STIFLES LAUGH

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You may proceed. Ha, ha, ha!

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I can't take it any more! It's the funniest thing I've ever heard!

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HE GUFFAWS

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LAUGHTER CONTINUES

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Still awake, Sweetie?

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Of course I'm still awake. When I was Binky I slept well.

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-Now - forget it!

-Here's a sandwich.

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I thought you might be hungry. I also thought you should see this.

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-Who's that?

-Shelley Barnes.

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Your great-grandfather. The person you are named after.

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Was he in the circus? Let me guess,

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he was a sideshow attraction cos he had such a dorky name.

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No, he owned the circus. At least he did eventually...

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At first he was just part of the circus.

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And not a very good one at that.

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They were known as The Travelling Malenky Brothers.

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Even their barker was bad.

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(YAWNS) Step right up, come see a pretty good show.

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When Shelley was only nine, he joined the trapeze act,

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helping Ferdinand the Flying Fox,

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who couldn't really fly at all.

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-Waaaaah!

-SPLAT!

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Next he helped Heinrich the Clown,

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whose heart had been broken when the bearded lady left him.

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SOBS: Why? Why? Why?

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Then he apprenticed with Lionel the Lion Tamer who couldn't tame actual

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lions but did have a very large cat.

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MEOW!

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The circus was a complete bust.

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People stopped coming to see The Travelling Malenky Brothers.

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Sometimes when Shelley thought how sad his life was,

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he would go on long moonlit rambles. During one of these walks,

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he discovered his special talent.

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Move, rock. I said move!

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Right, if you won't move, then I'm going to make you move!

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Yaaaah!

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When the others discovered how strong nine-year-old Shelley was,

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they decided to make him the star attraction.

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Soon people were coming from all over to see Brawny Barnes,

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the world's strongest boy!

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But Shelley was smart too.

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With the money they made,

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he suggested they get Ferdinand a more experienced partner.

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And he suggested they get a real lion for Lionel to tame.

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RAAAARGH!

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But the lion actually didn't need much taming!

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LIONEL GIGGLES

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Then Shelley said they should give the cat from Lionel's old act

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to Heinrich which cheered the clown up immensely.

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In short, Shelley saved that circus!

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When he got older, he took it over.

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-It toured for years and years.

-Wow!

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-What an amazing guy!

-Yep.

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That's why we gave you his name -

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because your dad and I think you're pretty amazing too!

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Since you were cut short last week,

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would you like to continue your speech before we begin class?

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-You bet I would.

-Oh! Mr Ratburn, I feel terrible about interrupting

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-Binky before, could I introduce him?

-That's nice of you, go right ahead.

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Sometimes you think you know someone

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but then you discover something about them surprises you.

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That's how I feel about our very own...Binky Barnes.

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-Congratulations!

-Uh...thanks.

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(I was never really going to tell, Shelley.)

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I'd like to dedicate this Thinky

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to someone who's strong, smart and really strong -

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the person I'm named after, my great-grandfather, Shelley Barnes.

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-ALL: You're Shelley?!

-But your name isn't Shelley.

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Actually it is. That's the name my parents gave me. I just found out.

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So, would you prefer to be called Binky or Shelley?

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Binky - for now. Someday I might be a Shelley.

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If I'm lucky...

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# Every day when you're walkin' down the street

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# Everybody that you meet

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# Has an original point of view

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-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

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# What a wonderful kind of day, hey!

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-# What a wonderful kind of day

-Hey! #

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