Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 14, 2011
December 13, 2011
December 15, 2011
Transcript:
Frazz: Don't you have a test tomorrow? Caulfield: I'll study in the morning. Frazz: Yikes. Sounds risky. Caulfield: If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing... Maybe a little danger is a knowledgeamous thing. Frazz: That's not even a word. Caulfield: It's not a vocabulary test. It's on the commutative property something or other.
prrdh over 12 years ago
Who cares if it isn’t a word? It’s so tasty that it ought to be.
Potrzebie over 12 years ago
hmm, perhaps there is a market there for headphones and apps that will allow kids to study on the buses. Imagine a whole bus of kids just staring at their little screen-devices.
atajayhawk over 12 years ago
Don’t they already, with their little phones and texting, etc?
lightenup Premium Member over 12 years ago
I think the full phrase is the Taft-Hartley Commutative Property of Quantum Entanglement.
tigre1 over 12 years ago
Maybe you CAN re-organize thought processes by re-arranging the concepts. Maybe even sequence…Except the teacher’s TEST will be in HIS terms. If you ‘GET’ it but can’t explain it in HIS terms, you’re in trouble.
A LOT of science and tech is in the vocabulary…theirs.
Larry Miller Premium Member over 12 years ago
If Caulfield wasn’t a bit of a loner, he could form a posse commutative.
aheise2u over 12 years ago
In math, A + B = B + A is an example of a commutative operation. Caulfield’s riff is a little more like A*(B+C) = AB + AC — a transitive operation. Haven’t thought about this since 10th grade!
Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML over 12 years ago
…what he said
Varnes over 12 years ago
Making up words is fun!
Varnes over 12 years ago
Lightenup, Nice….
apcos_best over 12 years ago
The actual quote “A little LEARNING is a dangerous thing…” would not be nearly as funny.
chris_weaver over 12 years ago
In a similar vein: If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
roth45 over 12 years ago
This is a particularly funny strip, since the original quote is mostly misquoted anyway!
A little learning is a dangerous thingDrink deep, or taste not the Pierian springThere shallow draughts intoxicate the brainAnd drinking l largely sobers us again (!)
childe_of_pan about 7 years ago
“Verbing weirds language.”-Calvin