Re: Quisanaut? Cuisinaut? huh?

Peter Moylan typed thus:

> Skitt biomed:
> >J.G.Harston wrote:
> >
> >> See mdfs.net/Docs/TV/Duckman/Scripts/4101
> >> 
> >> Does anybody know what Duckman is saying as he
> >> gets into his car about 5mins into episode 4101:
> >> 
> >> DUCKMAN: So, my sister-in-law is a walking
> >> quisanart(?), my children  do treat me like some kind of
> >> skin rash, but at least  I'm... freeway
> >> 
> >> Quisanaut? Cuisinaut? huh?
> >
> >Cuisinart.  http://www.cuisinart.com/
> 
> For a minute there I thought this was a reference to Cuisenaire, a
> method of teaching primary school mathematics that was briefly
> popular in about 1960.
> 
> My sister, the only one in the family to have suffered through this
> fad, used to think it was called "poison air".

Not suffered, at least in my case.  In my school, it was used only to 
stretch those with advanced maths abilities, to demonstrate the use 
of bases other than base-10.  I learned to do base-8 (and base-6) 
arithmetic at the age of 9 - this may have laid the pattern of my 
later career.

-- 
David
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