I read this tongue-in-cheek short story during the '60's. For some reason the main character is being harassed by a demon. He discovers that he can get rid of the creature - or cage it or something - by drawing a pentagram on the floor and keeping the thing outside it. No matter how small the hero draws the pentagram the demon shrinks itself to fit. Somehow he manages to draw a pentagram on the demon's body and it shrinks out of sight.
In time Keeps on Slippin' , Farnsworth creates a basketball team which he matures by abusing Chronitons. This leads to time skipping forward by random, but ever increasing amounts. How much time was skipped in this way? Answer Unfortunately, I don't think a good estimate can be made for this, for two reasons: Many of the time skips move forward by an indeterminate amount of time. At one point, the Professor mentions localized regions of space skipping forward much more than others. We then see two young boys on the street below complaining about having to pay social security, only to suddenly become senior citizens and start complaining about wanting their money. Thus, each individual could have experienced a different amount of time skippage.
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