Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for April 19, 2006
April 18, 2006
April 20, 2006
Transcript:
"Teddy, you're never gonna make it to three pages like that!" "What do you mean, 'like that'?" "You can't just write 'The colonists were mad at England for taxing their tea'! That's too short! You've got to stretch it out!" To say the colonists were upset with England for taxing their tea is understating the matter. They were BEYOND upset. They were angry, irate, miffed, peeved, mad, furious, perturbed, enraged, ticked off, sore, chafed, cross, huffy, incensed, and generally splenetic. "'Splenetic'?" Or, to put it another way,
bob about 9 years ago
If only he applied himself like that to schoolwork
Chad Cheetah about 7 years ago
Splenetic is a real world. It means “bad tempered, spiteful.”
a non-E mouse about 5 years ago
sple·net·ic/spləˈnedik/adjective1.bad-tempered; spiteful.
DM9001 almost 4 years ago
So Nate essentially did schoolwork to get out of doing more schoolwork. Genius
Nate on GoComics over 3 years ago
this is good advice actually
TheChΩsenΩne about 2 years ago
Maybe he’ll get an A+ for being descriptive and having a good vocabulary, if not for basing 90% of the report using synonyms of “Angry”.