Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for September 18, 2012

Francis, you are a genius.

Hmm. Did I post before anyone else? Gee. How about that. Here I sit sipping Amaretto (di Saronno brand is the best) and eating cheese doodles. We call them cheezies. Same diff. It is late and I really should be in bed. But I’m not.

can i have some cheezies im at work at this hour!

Actually, Nate, it rewards slackers like you. All you have to do is not goof off and you get a free 20 percent. Couldn’t be easier.

its 3.33pm right now and i got back from school twenty minutes ago. plus, we don’t call them cheez doodles, cheesies or stuff like that…we have twisties…but i dont know if you have them in america or if they’re like cheez doodles.@Suzanne: Is Amaretto like tea?

looking up at the comments, sounds like not only kids like bignate.

Cheez Doodles? Cheesies? HEY PEOPLE WE CALL EM TWISTIES

Francis is always able to read Nate’s mind

I’m so jealous the States have so much more food than over here, like Dr Pepper is rarely sold in Singapore

sorry for heaps of comments XDplus i’m no bad speller, just doing short but easy to understand words so itz quicker!

There is a simple solution here. Raise your hand for every question, if you get called on if you know the answer answer the question. If you don’t know the answer simple state “I don’t know the answer, but I am participating”

Nate is right about one thing. I’ve had classes where class participation counted and there were always a lot of people who would always be saying something just to be saying something and not because they actually had anything interesting to contribute to the discussion.

Good point Francis. For once.

I thought so too when I was in school. I was uber shy.

It also rewards people who have nothing of substance to contribute but try to make some bland statement or ask an unnecessary question just to get participation points. The whole concept is just plain bad.

I think this started when Nate got caught “asleep at the wheel”…….stressing class participation will (or “should” in best-case scenario) encourage students to stay awake, at least, while class is going on………..

I’ll bet that Nate knows all sorts of useless sports facts though. Only career for him is as a sports announcer.

its called just do the work and you don’t have to do it correctly

Well, schadenfreude is a term generally used in English because it beautifully describes getting pleasure from someone else’s misfortune (in this case, drinking Moxie). Not a lot of people speak German here, French is much more common since we border Quebec. However, I did live in Trier, Germany for six months, and my job had me working in Trier, Cochem, Koln, and Bitburg, so I can read quite a bit of it. As far as speaking it, I learned the important phrases, like “eine bier, bitte.”

Yep. And once you can fake honesty and sincerity you have it made.

I last studied German in 1976.Amazingly, I understood what you wrote.

Your making me all hungry

I am Harry Potato, also known as The-Potato-That-Lived. Good-Bye now!!!

“Genius”

My twins, Joe and Max were born on this day!

I’m more upset about how Mrs. Godfrey weights homework and tests the same at thirty percent (you can see it in the strip from the previous day)

too bad that’s not how life works!