Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 23, 1968
January 22, 1968
January 24, 1968
Transcript:
Linus and Charlie Brown sit at their desks in school and look at books. Linus says, "We're having a test today on chapter four . ."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown says, "Chapter four?! Good grief, I studied chapter two!"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown frowns and says, "I'm doomed . . ."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown continues, "Studying the wrong chapter is like cutting your fingernails too short!"<BR><BR>
I had a classmate who thought he was clever when instead of learning the vocabulary for a class test in Latin he memorized the passages of the translation of De Bello Gallico that we suspected might come in the class test and then just translated the first sentence of the text we got in the class test and wrote down the rest from memory. That would have worked, but it turned out that his translation was completely wrong. So wrong that he basically got another sentence that matched one of the sentences he had memorized. So to our Latin teacher’s astonishment and amusement he got a translated text from De Bello Gallico, just not the right one. My classmate had written down a completely wrong passage.