shoulda hit the delete key!

Jay here with some math entirely appropriate for the harmonically atrophic:
an arithmetic problem posed in Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland"
"If a steamship weighs ten thousand pounds and sails five thousand miles,
With a cargo large, of overshoes and carving knives and files,
If the bos'n's mate is six feet tall and the captain, near the same,
Would you subtract or multiply to find the captain's name?"
and, from a 1949 78 rpm record of a story for kids, "Tickety Tock, the alarm
clock that couldn't tell time"
Tickety Tock, the alarm clock, was dismantled, then remantled by a kid who
lacked the requisite mechanical programming skiills. Nevertheless, the clock
is for sale at the clockshop. Having been sold, his assignment is to ring
his alarm at 5 a.m. which is nine hours from the time he does the math that
is supposed to tell him how many ticks to count before ringing the alarm.
The math is as follows:
"Letr's see. There's 60 minutes to the hour, and 60 times 60 is, um 3,600
ticks to the hour, and for 9 hours, from 8 to 5 o'clock is, um,
6 *8 is 48, movwe the zero over where the 7 was and multiply the zero by
8*3, then move the 7 over where the zero was and that comes to 32,4000 ticks."
Talk about fuzzy logic!