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02 July 2004

 
I was thinking about old television programs this morning: My Living Doll, My Mother the Car, My Favorite Martian, My Little Margie... I remember watching "Eighth Man" after school at one point. Looper laughs that "Tobor," the name of the Eighth Man, is just robot spelled backwards, however, I was never conscious of that as a child. I went straight to that mysterious "eighth." Why was Tobor the "eighth" man? Was he number 8 in a series of robots that, like nesting dolls, were all contained within the largest robot? If a child fell down a well would we hear "zipzooot" as each robot opened to reveal a smaller robot? At last a size-appropriate robot would fly into the well and save the child! Or perhaps there were seven failed robot design projects... or an infinite quantity of numbered robots, exactly the same, which worked various beats around the globe, No. 8 being assigned to Japan? There was probably some explanation in the program, but I never saw it. Part of the theme song remains fresh, however: Call Tobor, the EIGHTH man! It was in black and white, I think. I wonder if Tobor knew Klaatu. We also watched "Diver Dan," I think it was. We liked the barracuda, I think. In the olden days I probably watched a television show because it was on between the time I returned from school and went out to look after the horses, which was about half an hour. After that I didn't come in until I'd ridden my horse and mucked out all the horses -- a varying number at that time from 3 to (briefly) 7 or so. Every once in a while, because I was so small, the horses would deliberately push past me when I was opening the gate to bring one in from the paddock. Then they'd all dance around all over the neighbors' grass, and I'd have to catch them all, then wearily trudge back to knock down all the divots. Horses have a definite sense of humor -- they all thought it was hilarious. I used to see them play little jokes: my mare at one time was cropping grass with a gleam in her eye, as we were all lying around in the sun -- horses, dogs, cats, chickens, me. She cropped closer and closer to one of my dogs, who was obliviously watching something in the distance. All of a sudden she (Oops! Sorry!) took a mouthful of dog instead of grass. The dog leapt up, surprised but not really hurt or scared. She laughed and laughed...

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Tobor was called the eighth man because he was the eighth wonder of the world
 

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