Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for April 19, 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,
If only he applied himself like that to schoolwork