Hello Thursday, my old friend.

If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember trying to cram for exams in front of the telly, watching The Learning Channel on SABC.

A chap called William Smith would run callers through problems step-by-step, but it was always the maths questions that caused the most head-scratching.

Smith would end up with ink all over his hands, the caller would pretend like they understood his workings, and we would keep on watching because the only other things on were infomercials and OUTsurance adverts.

If none of that rings a bell, then the efforts of Casper de Vries are going to mean bugger all. For the rest of you, today we throw back to Casper and his sketch about The Learning Channel:

But it’s not applicable.

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