Mrs. Olsen: Caulfield, please pipe down. Not another word!
Frazz: "If you can't say anything at all, don't say something nice"?
Caulfield: We were studying the commutative property of stuff.
This one hurt my head to figure out. The commutative property in math means you can switch things around and get he same answer: 1+2 = 2+1. Caulfield took the phrase “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” and tried to reverse it: “if you can’t say anything, don’t say something nice.” In Caulfield’s twisted logic, since Mrs. Olsen told him not to say anything, the commutative property told him he should say something not nice. And he got in trouble for it.
Caulfield is lucky to have Mrs Olsen as his teacher. If I were his teacher, I’d put up with his foolishness for about two minutes………PER YEAR!!! I don’t care how smart he is, I’d let him impress everyone in the class for retarded pupils! Because that or its equivalent is where he would matriculate from now on!
pschearer Premium Member over 9 years ago
Maybe Caulfield can get his sentence commuted.
Pataruski Premium Member over 9 years ago
Thanks, I hadn’t known the term “commutative property”. Since anything he said would get punished, might as well go for a banned one.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 9 years ago
Huh, I guess that phrase (“If you can’t say something nice”) is commutative.
Neoprene Wedgie Premium Member over 9 years ago
This one hurt my head to figure out. The commutative property in math means you can switch things around and get he same answer: 1+2 = 2+1. Caulfield took the phrase “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” and tried to reverse it: “if you can’t say anything, don’t say something nice.” In Caulfield’s twisted logic, since Mrs. Olsen told him not to say anything, the commutative property told him he should say something not nice. And he got in trouble for it.
robert423elliott 11 months ago
Caulfield is lucky to have Mrs Olsen as his teacher. If I were his teacher, I’d put up with his foolishness for about two minutes………PER YEAR!!! I don’t care how smart he is, I’d let him impress everyone in the class for retarded pupils! Because that or its equivalent is where he would matriculate from now on!