Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for March 23, 2003

Transcript:

"Shlox-TV presents:25 25 minutes of 6th grade Social Studies! Events occur in real time" "8:30" "Gooood morning, Mrs. Godfrey!" "Shut up and sit down." "8:32" "Surprise quiz, people." "But...you said we were watching a filmstrip!" "hence the term 'surprise' quiz." "8:37" "Um...this quiz is on stuff we haven't studied yet." "Well, you should have read ahead." "8:42" "Hand 'em in." "But...I'm only half done!" "Ask me if I half-care." "8:44" "Okay, now I'm going to drone on and on in a mind-numbing monotone about an obscure and meaningless historical event. On March 1st, 1790, Congress authorized a decennial U.S. Census, meaning, that the..." "8:49" "and it was at that point in 1795, that the U.S. decided to purchase peace from the Algerian pirates who were holding 115 sailors hostage and follow this" "8:53" "Are you chewing gum?" "It's a cough drop. I have a cold." "Gum-chewing in class in forbidden!" "8:54" "But it isn't gum! It's..." "Are you sassing me, Mister?" "No, I..." "No one sasses me!" "Tick Tick Tick" "Principal"