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Written by Matthew Waldram   
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I've always had trouble keeping my concentration, staying focussed on the task in hand. I took Belbin's test - I answered a million 'personality' questions designed to tell me how I fit into a group/team - and he (Belbin) reckons I'm a 'Resource Investigator' which essentially means that when I start any new project I think 'Wow this is the best thing ever, I simply CANNOT wait to start this…" then I get about 37% of the way through it, get bored, and pray that someone else will finish it for me.

So it was no surprise that during my final year of University - whilst attempting to write an assignment on Management Strategy and Acquisition - I was thinking about Daimler and Chrysler, HP and Compaq, Coca-Cola and Cadbury-Schweppes, when suddenly a far more urgent and compelling conversation took place in my mind...

Q. What was that cartoon with the lizard who had massive orange hair and wore three pairs of glasses?
A. Hmmm, sounds familiar but I can't place it. Anyway, Daimler-Chrysl…..
Q. Didn't he have a lisp as well?
A. Who?
Q. The lizard. He did, he had a lisp and he spoke to his boss who I think was some smoke or slime that came out of a geyser. Damn what was the name of that show?
A. So a lisping lizard with orange hair spoke to some smoke/slime...?

It didn't seem very likely. So I asked a friend - he also said he 'vaguely remembered' it, but couldn't really offer any help identifying it. Well that's that then, back to acquisitions and mergers……

That's when I drew this guy...


Urpgor


It took me about 30 minutes, some may call this a waste of time that could have been better spent on my essay.  But wait, a breakthrough was made.  As I was drawing, I inadvertently drew him wearing a lab-coat and holding a test-tube.  Which made me remember that this drooling, orange-haired buffoon was a scientist!

I showed the drawing to my friend and he nodded along, saying that it certainly seemed familiar to him.  I think he was just humouring me though, he knew the Resource Investigator in me would soon lose interest - he just needed to ride the wave.

Sadly though, I spent the next four hours - followed by a solid month of research - trying to remember what this damn cartoon was about…or if I’d even just made it up.  Most people who I spoke to about this were convinced that it was all in my head, and that I should just forget about it. 

So after spending time looking on ‘nostalgia’ websites and asking everybody I knew about this lizard, I was about to give up.  But, it turns out that I’d also put a post up on a forum set up by people I used to work with, and it’d been answered.  Could this be the information I’d been searching for…

Forum entry

Not the easiest thing to read I know,, but if you look closely, this former colleague of mine had attached an image called ‘tease.jpg’.  I licked my lips in anticipation and clicked…..

The REAL UrpgorYES!!!!! He exists, the show is real, I sort of remembered what he looks like and all was well with the world.

"And just in time," my friend pointed out, "with that new assignment deadline looming, you didn't need any distrac..."

Now I just needed to remember what the show was called. The guy who posted the picture clearly knew, but he wasn't about to tell me (not without making me suffer for weeks first anyway).

So I went on every 'nostalgia' website/forum I could find and posted this picture, and eventually somebody said: "I know that show, it's called.........."


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