Mr. Spaetzle: What brings you to my office today, Caulfield? Briefly. Caulfield: I let one go during quiet reading time. If you're done being so interested in "briefly", I let go a grasshopper I caught on the playground.
Grasshoppers bite? Each summer, my garden is full of grasshoppers with red legs? (if I am remembering correctly), but I never see any damage from them. They must be eating something…I need to look it up.
I’m not sure about “bite,” but the big grasshoppers we used to catch when I was a kid in Delaware would sure pinch! And if you held one too long, he would release a drop of disgusting-looking dark liquid onto your hand.
Thanks for launching the reminiscences about “tobacco juice.” I’d completely forgotten that part. (We called it that, too, now that you bring it up!).
Anyway, as I said first thing this morning, or last thing last night, releasing a grasshopper in the classroom seems like perfectly normal kid stuff to me!
annieb1012 almost 11 years ago
Sounds like normal kid stuff to me.
jnik23260 almost 11 years ago
Lesson to Principal: You can either get it fast, or get it right!
Gator007 almost 11 years ago
A fart?
Varnes almost 11 years ago
SBDs are trouble, but there is nothing like one that sounds like somebody stepped on a duck in the middle of silent reading time…
jessegooddoggy almost 11 years ago
Grasshoppers bite? Each summer, my garden is full of grasshoppers with red legs? (if I am remembering correctly), but I never see any damage from them. They must be eating something…I need to look it up.
Tirasmol almost 11 years ago
hah!
jpsomebody almost 11 years ago
Those old metal desks, that had only one side under the seat open where you kept your books, made wonderful amplifiers for an intestinal drum roll.
annieb1012 almost 11 years ago
I’m not sure about “bite,” but the big grasshoppers we used to catch when I was a kid in Delaware would sure pinch! And if you held one too long, he would release a drop of disgusting-looking dark liquid onto your hand.
lightenup Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Some kids got in trouble recently for releasing 10,000 crickets at school for a senior prank. They think it’s “so unfair!” LOL
Marko56 almost 11 years ago
My dad always called soy sauce, “grasshopper juice.”
slypuma almost 11 years ago
That was good
deadheadzan almost 11 years ago
That third panel just cracks me up!
kaecispopX almost 11 years ago
I think the principal was trying hard not to laugh at Caufield’s initial remark.
Bob. almost 11 years ago
We used to say they spit tobacco
hippogriff almost 11 years ago
Tobacco: I even had arguments with those who thought they really chewed tobacco – which wouldn’t even grow in north Texas.
rgcviper almost 11 years ago
OK—this one made me laugh out loud.
Love the [head-desk] in panel 3, too.
annieb1012 almost 11 years ago
@bigpuma
Thanks for launching the reminiscences about “tobacco juice.” I’d completely forgotten that part. (We called it that, too, now that you bring it up!).
Anyway, as I said first thing this morning, or last thing last night, releasing a grasshopper in the classroom seems like perfectly normal kid stuff to me!
Harlen Premium Member 9 months ago
Make me laugh out loud, thanks.