3 Noddy Problem

Why there’s no Sci in Sci-Fi

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For those unfamiliar with old British slang, a Noddy is a person with a wooden head, incapable of understanding anything beyond the most basic concepts like stand up, sit down, wave your hand. This originated with the childrens’ programming of 1960s BBC TV. Noddy was a wooden puppet, a kind of mentally challenged Pinocchio without the desire to be more than it already was. The relevance of the term Noddy…