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Eileen: See? It's right here on Wikipedia. The Parthenon's columns are doric, not ionic. A good first effort, though!
Marcus: I really can't believe you made this bet with her.
Jason: I had an A+++++ average in math! I thought it was a sure thing!
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Doric, ionic… what’s the difference? (Seriously. What’s the difference? I really don’t know.)
dadoctah over 10 years ago
You look at the top of the column. Plain: Ionic. Fancy: Doric. Hilariously over-the-top too-fancy-to-take-seriously: Corinthian.
RuinQueenofOblivion over 10 years ago
Or snowmen bowing to a snowwoman.
magnusvisel over 10 years ago
@daDoctahPlain: DoricScrolls: IonicFlowery crazy fanciness: Corinthian
Reality,really? over 10 years ago
Aren’t the Elgin marbles in London?
emjaycee over 10 years ago
So if Jason is a science major, should he not have done ionic columns?
Opus Croakus over 10 years ago
Caribena over 10 years ago
How did they know before Internet?
wcorvi over 10 years ago
OK, folks, you noticed it isn’t falling down, it has a funny saying across the top, the wrong columns; did you notice the SNOW shovels in their hands?
keren alldredge over 10 years ago
Thank you Mr. Amend…for making me think…and making me look up the difference between Doric and Ionic…and making me laugh all the more.
She Mc over 10 years ago
thanks Opus, I guess it makes me a was a dork!
tcreole over 10 years ago
I’m thinking Jason bet Eileen that he’d beat her on some math test and didn’t, and the stakes were that the loser had to build a snow monument to the winner… and she’s rejecting the monument because he got the columns wrong, so now he has to start over.
tcreole over 10 years ago
Whoops, the monument reveals that the bet was likely who’d get the higher score on their fall report card. Pay attention to details, tcreole!
scyphi26 over 10 years ago
I’m just impressed A,end took the time to get his facts on the columns straight…but I don’t know why, he’s proven plenty of times in the past that he has an eye for details like this.
Max Starman Jones over 10 years ago
Majestic comic today. And Linus would be proud!"
vldazzle over 10 years ago
I thought that the geek boys would have had more attention to detail – we ARE known for that, after all. Even though I would have had to look up all the details to make replica of Parthenon (and would do it in pastry, not snow) I’d get it right.
kaffekup over 10 years ago
Since when do nerds accept anything they see on Wikipedia?
amaryllis2 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Gotta love that Eileen Jacobsen across the top of it—he really did a snow job on her.
Corey Karvonen-Lee Premium Member over 10 years ago
Careful. I’ve found more than one mistake on Wikipedia.
Gary Fabian over 10 years ago
That’s a snow sculpture, by the way.
Destiny23 over 10 years ago
Jason should just change the Wikipedia entry — easier than building a new monument!
susan.e.a.c over 10 years ago
You believe wikipedia?
Ed Brault Premium Member over 10 years ago
Did they cotract Calvin to do the snowmen? They are just his style!
bkybl Premium Member over 10 years ago
There seems to be a joke here connected with Jason thinking he can win the bet because he’s a math ace. Could someone please explain it?
Doctor11 over 10 years ago
Defeated once again, eh Jason?
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 10 years ago
Hey, I learned the Three Orders from “A Child’s History of the World” by the bloody-brilliant V. M. Hillyer. The three names (“Doric”, “Ionic”, and “Corinthian”) are references to different regions in Greece, just as you might call a house in America “New England Colonial”, “Dutch Colonial”, or “Southern Colonial”. Doric is plain. Ionic has the scroll-ish capitals (tops), and the fluting (the scooped-out vertical lines on the columns, themselves), and Corinthian is all flowers and stuff. (There is a legend that the Corinthian order was based on a child’s grave with flowers piled on it.)
And, as has been pointed out, the strip is showing Ionic, but the actual Parthenon is, indeed, Doric.
K M over 10 years ago
Ah, yes, the occasionally reliable Wikipedia.
lisbethtraumwasser over 10 years ago
Partially true, they are Ionic on the inside, which was not uncommon.
from a correspondent in Virginia over 10 years ago
ROFL! I had to learn this in college. To me it’s hillarious
heatherjasper over 10 years ago
She used Wikipedia, Jason. There’s a good chance you’re right.
alecgiacometti almost 6 years ago
Actually, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, Eileen.
Exodush about 3 years ago
I just realized, it says Fall report card goddess, eileen jacobson
That Nerdy Dude 11 months ago
When did Eileen get smarter?
Ceggie 3 months ago
Really? They actually do look ionic…