"So what I'm saying is the dinosaurs were

"So what I'm saying is the dinosaurs were just too big for the ark, see? So they all became extinguished. - it was thirty cubits high. That's your cretaceous boundary right there.

Oscar the Grouch looked at Elmo and for the first time thought before he spoke, and then said, "Elmo that was totally

and completely awful. In fact, I think you may have shortened our life expectancies". Elmo's grin did a quick 180 degree spin at Oscar's well-thought-out insult. "B-But, I was only

... I was only...." Elmo couldn't get the words out, searching Sesame Street in the hope that it would have an answer. Oscar's grouchy face remained, knowing they only had 5

Impatient toddlers watching there show now. Sesame Street wasn't doing so good because Elmo never finished his sentences.

And why would he? He's a stuffed Muppet...Like ALL of the Muppets, Elmo was illiterate, just like President Zippy and his Washington Muppets...always using the wrong objective pro

It wasn't easy supporting the U2 frontman in times like these, but Dr. Fernstain insisted that it was the only way for Elmo to accept his illiteracy and move on with his furry life

. Later that night, as Elmo lay in bed, half deaf from the amplifiers and too tired to sleep, he began to wonder if maybe he should have just learned to read after all. Then he

tickled himself to sleep, the thought lingering in his little furry brain with sweet memories of his home...a place called Sesame Street.