Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for May 01, 2013
April 30, 2013
May 02, 2013
Transcript:
Panel 1: "It's getting late. I'm gonna head towards home." "Not 'towards'." Panel 2: "Hm?" "There's no 's'. It's toward, not towards." Panel 3: "Whatever." "'Whatever'? Doesn't it bother you when people use the wrong word?" Panel 4: "I could care less." "Cripes."
HogFan over 11 years ago
Correct!!
prasrinivara over 11 years ago
And in this case Francis was wrong anyway — Nate wanted to LAY his head!
Bittermelon of Truth over 11 years ago
I got this link from another comment:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-mirza-grotts/minding-other-peoples-man_b_498674.html
The#1BoiseStateFan over 11 years ago
My god, Francis!
Marvelmoan1114 over 11 years ago
AMEN Nate! Hit him with a dictionary or thesaurus or something!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 11 years ago
Hitting someone for correcting them is wrong. It is another disturbing example of the anti-social behavior that goes on in this world.
brocktheboss1213 over 11 years ago
That oughta have Francis’ head ‘laying’ on the table
teddyortiz#1fan over 11 years ago
picture this: nate finds a love note in his locker that was carried there by his preschool lunchbox. it is from jenny, and it has her number. not even thinking to change the area code, nate calls the number. jenny’s mom answers the phone and gives nate the number of an asylum. the phone is brought to jenny who answers from her cell. she said she finally snapped because she couldn’t understand why nate kept trying so hard to go out with her while ignoring her note. jenny comes back to school, after being told the story of how nate lost the note. every five minutes, jenny will laugh like an insane person. what do u think?
the drifter over 11 years ago
nice going Nate.
lmubill over 11 years ago
Sic Semper Grammar-Nazius :)
TArbiter over 11 years ago
A “doof” for a Doofus.
orbenjawell Premium Member over 11 years ago
Things could be worse: we could be getting “newspeak”, that streamlined, stripped to the carcass, mind-diminishing official state tongue from Orwell’s “1984”. Bignate 1apr13 refs unpersons? Doubleplusungood!!
TripleT over 11 years ago
Oh,I thought Nate was going to sit quietly on a French antique armchair,smoke a bubble pipe and read Great expectations quietly.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 11 years ago
Serves you right Francis! His glasses got knocked off half way!
I'll fly away over 11 years ago
Francis and Joe Cobbs mother from Jump Start must have had the same English teacher.
XtremePearls over 11 years ago
doof you with it :).lol
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
Correct grammar and syntax are now scoffed at by the the lazy. Another step in the dumbing down of America.
hometownk Premium Member over 11 years ago
Thank you for expaining this. I’ve puzzled over it a few times. (For real.)
bevgreyjones over 11 years ago
SallyMargaret, I love Ogden Nash and good grammar and am completely unfamiliar with this poem. Thank you.
Popeyesforearm over 11 years ago
what a doof-us.
lisebrouillette over 11 years ago
LOL!
bignate creator over 11 years ago
I wasn’t aware I was making a “defense,” merely an observation.
teddyortiz#1fan over 11 years ago
all right… how u like my new avatar!?
moonheart100 over 11 years ago
What do I do with the book? What do I do? Hit you on the freaking head, Francis.
billy2609 over 11 years ago
impossible
Jeff0811 over 11 years ago
I don’t encourage violence in real life, but all week long Francis has been making an @ss of himself. In the comic world, what other outcome could there be? He got what he deserved.
lukastt over 11 years ago
Ha ha.
mrblixxx2000 over 11 years ago
but then, that is what English is and always has been, an amalgam of many other languages constantly developing and changing.Ogden, oh how thou hast fallen behind the times…
bignate creator over 11 years ago
We’ll have to agree to disagree. I don’t think Nate is being outrageously mean-spirited or petty. He’s eleven years old, and he’s reacting to Francis lecturing him for three days in a row. And slapstick is a time-honored element of humor. In your post, you used the phrase “comedic license aside.” Why set it aside? That’s like trying to discuss opera and saying, “ignore the music part.” For me, comedic license is what a comic strip is all about. The day I stop feeling that way, I’ll give it up. Thanks for reading!
rgcviper over 11 years ago
Made me smile.
mrfsu7524 almost 11 years ago
Shaddup.
Tater over 10 years ago
Great move, Nate! (No, that’s not sarcasm!)
DM9001 over 5 years ago
He’s gonna LAY it smack across Francis’s stupid face!
HalberCon about 4 years ago
i hit people with it
HalberCon about 4 years ago
he looks awake in the last panel
MatthewMukkala about 4 years ago
I hate it when people keep correcting your grammar over things that are “technically” not correct.
SamuelZhao almost 4 years ago
At this point Francis is being annoying
NYAVOR!!! over 3 years ago
I hate it when people use incorrect grammar