Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for July 20, 2014
July 19, 2014
July 21, 2014
Transcript:
Nate: Look over there, Spitsy! Nate: You know what would be fun? If you ran over there and scared that flock of squirrels! Francis: *ahem* Francis: There's no such thing as a FLOCK of squirrels! You're misusing the word! Francis: Every animal has a word used to refer to its collective group! A PRIDE of lions! A CLOUD of grasshoppers! A PRICKLE of porcupines! Francis: It's incorrect to tell Spitsy to scare that FLOCK of squirrels! You should tell him to scare that SCURRY of Squirrels! Nate: Great, Francis... Nate: ... Except that while you were YAKKING, they all ran up that TREE! Francis: Oh. Nate: Spitsy... psst psst psst psst psst...
Comisftw over 10 years ago
See, Spitsy being cool(for once).Collective nouns.
OldestandWisest over 10 years ago
Francis didn’t mention my favorite, an ARMY of frogs. Napoleon used to command a lot of those.
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member over 10 years ago
O&W and they do march on their stomachs!
jploch5408 over 10 years ago
As Sheldon once told Leonard on an early episode of “The Big Bang Theory”, “We have a clowder of cats.”
calliopejane over 10 years ago
Nothing beats a “murder of crows.”
orbenjawell Premium Member over 10 years ago
……and a bungle of morons!! Well anyway it finally happened: Nate got that #@*&^$!!! dog to carry out a command successfully!!
Comic Minister Premium Member over 10 years ago
Good job Nate.
susan.e.a.c over 10 years ago
Hey, Spitsy got it right for once.
natrian over 10 years ago
Word Crimes….Weird Al YankovicManditory Fun
Bignatefan2002 over 10 years ago
What did Nate say to Spitsy to make him do something right for once? “If you attack Francis, I’ll give you a bone.”
byamrcn over 10 years ago
And what’s a group of nerds called?
pschearer Premium Member over 10 years ago
To be technical, at worst it is ‘racialist’. Racialism was a once-common doctrine that separate nationalities displayed distinct traits of personality or character, such as the business sense of the Anglo-Saxon or the hot-bloodedness of the Spanish. But racialism or racism, they both are used to obliterate the recognition of individual attributes. (But the Napoleon joke IS funny.)
CrossDoggo™ ✔️ about 5 years ago
It looks like spitsy is talking to nate lol
MatthewMukkala about 4 years ago
So he can get spitsy to fetch?
MartyLikeIts1991 almost 4 years ago
For once, Spitsy is actually doing what Nate wants him to!
SamuelZhao almost 4 years ago
I once read this in the Sunday comics
hockey man over 3 years ago
you ruined his chance, francis
Over-Confident Nate (Comic Reviewer) over 3 years ago
now thats a real dog