B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 09, 2016

It’s VIAL, not VILE.

It’s vial, not vile. However, given the results…

The teacher may have muttered a vile epithet under his breath after this occurrence.

Only the grammar is vile here.

Perhaps it was not a chemistry class. It might have been a class involving language use and so we might have had vile phrase A and vile phrase B.

At SKOOL, vial is vile.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember the studants of Skool, who died valiantly in antbitious pursuit of knowledge. Their last lesson was a vital one, where they made the mistake of combining two vile substances.

That reminds me of what happened in my Chemistry Lab, a long time ago… A friend who’s experiment was taking far too long decide to dump about 30 or 40 ml into his experiment, instead of using an eye dropper, it put holes in the ceiling tiles, his shirt and made a big mess. Best part he was a fireman who worked with Chemical fires and had to take the class because of work. College was fun sometimes…

I remember taking my eyebrows off by pouring carbon tetrachloride onto molten sulfur. Carbon tet will dissolve sulfur, but it’s also quite flammable.

To be fair, the results were pretty vile …

@ rwillatpatbar …or maybe even vial.

That seems to be the ants Hogwarts Skool for the Chemically Gifted.

Great job of keeping people illiterate….

Many years ago, the Mr. Wizards of the chemistry class at my parochial school conducted an “experiment” that resulted in the release of mass quantities of chlorine gas into the school. After the evacuation, cleanup, and screaming were over, the boys said they previously did the same thing at home, but figured the results would be different if they did it in a “real” lab.I still have this nagging cough…

The use of “vile” isn’t a surprise, given the spelling of “school.”

Not a bad gag. Sorry the misspelling upstaged it.

hey, this is a “skool”

School is now spelled, “skool”?

Seems like a formula for Presidential debates.Vile candidate A + ……

Skool…,Where every prospect pleases,And only Ant is vile.

I thought “vial”, not “vile”, too, but y’all beat me to it. I reckon I best get up earlier to beat you’uns.

I thought that the bad spelling was part of the joke. Not a good part, just a part. I notice you had no problem with ‘skool’. Maybe the teacher is a vampire?

Who needs terrorist nutcases when you have a building full of bored teenagers?

Great. The cartoonist can’t spell. What a wonderful world we live in these days.

Let’s hope the vile results of vile A and vile B caused no violent or virulent results. Clearly, the typo (was it one?) went viral here among the readers of the strip. Perhaps it is vital to the viablility of any strip to occasionally gauge the vitality of the fan base, their virulency, their “vital juices” and how vitriolic they can become, or vituperative. venal, or just plain vexing.

Viva la BC Comic Strip -

C-L

Well put, John Doe!

Did you mean vial, or am I missing something?

For the record… “FOOM” was spelled correctly…

Wow. Lots of English majors here!

I was noted for having the highest lab breakage bill in the history of my high school chemistry class. I was SUCH a klutz….(was? oh well.)

Just to add another few memories… In my seventh grade chemistry class, we made a still. Everyone got to taste a drop as it came out. In another class, elemental mercury was spilled on the floor, and we chased the little liquid balls around to gather it back up.School was occasionally fun back then.

‘Vile’? I think the lesson ought to be spelling: ‘vial’!

mplsstreetrwy gets a gold star.

Considering they work in a building entitled “SKOOL” I’d lower my expectations!

That’s “vial”, not “vile”.

Personally, I would’ve used phial.

“Vile”. LOL.

Vial A and Vial B create vile explosion.

Ewe loose you’re vile @ skool? :)

This reminds me of an episode of M*A*S*H, Trapper and Hawkeye are getting instructions over the radio on how to disarm a bomb.

“Cut the blue wire …But first …

SCHOOL GOT FOOMED!!!!!!!

It’s VIAL, not VILE!! SKOOL is obviously a deliberate mistake, but VILE is obviously just poor spelling. VILE means nasty. A small glass container is a VIAL.

Excuse me while I leave to play my vial-in……going now

Maybe they mean mix vile A and vile B in the vial. Just didn’t have room to finish it properly.

I could never remember – is it pour acid into water or pour water into acid?

“Vile A, Vile B”??? the stuff may be vile, but it should be “Vial”.

I’m pretty sure anything mixed with anything in the ant school lab is indeed vile. I am willing to bet that mixing any vile with another vile does cause a catastrophic event.

Perhaps he was commenting more on the contents than the container?

I guess the is no editor for the comics.

Hey, you can’t expect a science teacher to know how to spell.

How is it that at least three people blew it on this misspelling? This is more blatant than “Cow tools”.

Mastroianni and/or HartLettererEditor(s)

Every science teacher I had made this same pun.

Wow! 61 comments and nobody noticed “vial” was misspelled!

That was exactly what Mr. McInty said to me in Chemistry class!

I assume ve vill be hearing more comments on spelling for a vile…

It was something vile in a vial.

Well, we now know what an artist needs to do to get a great deal of attention of GoComics…

Shake!?

Or maybe use a vial even.

The funny thing is that in the newspaper today, “vial” is spelled correctly.

Yep, vile use of the wrong word…But hey, they’re not paid for grammar, are they?

I was going to mention my high school chem lab explosion, but. . . never mind.

Isn’t it vile that they did not use a vial?

Some vile substance in tube A, and some vile substance in tube B.Either that, or whoever did the inking doesn’t know the difference.Of course, in “The Count of Monte Cristo” it’s spelled “phial” so who is correct?

The word is “vial”…whither America?

Or perhaps I should way America is withering?

Dile the Vocabulary Police!

Excellent

amazing the spelling was wrong here for a professional…

Somehow the schoolhouse made out of sand is still standing.