Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 13, 2009
Transcript:
Teacher" Danae! Are you cheating?! Danae: No ma'am ... I'm meeting the goal of your test. Teacher: Uh ... what? Danae: Isn't the goal to get the answers right? Teacher: Yes ... but ... Danae: Well, that's what I'm trying to do here. Teacher: You can't do it by cheating!! Danae: It's not cheating ... it's enhanced studying. Jeffery: Can I move? I'm allergic to the wrath of teachers ...
pouncingtiger over 15 years ago
It’s tough taking a pop quiz by itself without two people looking over your shoulder.
ejcapulet over 15 years ago
Looks like Danae is going to be in the principal’s office again.
Manhunter808 over 15 years ago
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! I’ve gotta check back here later to see some female comments re. gmartin997’s LMAO
wicky over 15 years ago
gmartin997 is correct, we never cared about all that crud.
mogelsberg over 15 years ago
yes, enhanced studying or enhanced interrogation is cheating and unethical. I get the point.
prasrinivara over 15 years ago
More accurate euphemism would be “enhanced cramming”, Danae!
Another euphemism for copying (pertained to assignments, rather than exams) that I learned in university was “road map”.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 15 years ago
Way back in high school four of us in the back of the room, put our desks real close together for a geometry test! Dumb to begin with! What were we thinking, our teacher wouldn’t notice? Guess where we ended up? LOL! Our parents WERE NOT HAPPY!
MJNFPCartoonist over 15 years ago
Enhanced studying, hilarious material.
Ermine Notyours over 15 years ago
This assumes that the person you’re copying from has the right answers.
lazygrazer over 15 years ago
I learned that cheating rightly got me better grades than guessing wrongly.
NicodemusLegend over 15 years ago
“I’m allergic to the wrath of teachers” wins for BEST LINE EVER.
jmworacle over 15 years ago
What rath of teachers? These days they are more concerned about the rath of students. Their principal desn’t back them up. The school board hides under their desks for fear of litigation. Danae is smart enough to know this.
salvage99201 over 15 years ago
Does anyone else wish there was a compilation of Danae comics into book form? I so want one.
Wildmustang1262 over 15 years ago
Cheating will make us learning nothing at the educational classrooms. :-/ tsk! I love to see the teacher yelling out of her mouth. LOLs!
bmonk over 15 years ago
ArthurAllen says:
“This assumes that the person you’re copying from has the right answers.”
That’s part of the meta-test: making sure you cheat off the right person so as to get the right answers.
Like the personnel director who had several qualified finalists for a job, so he decided to give them all a test and hire the one with the highest score. Two had the same score, with only one wrong answer. The guy who was not hired objected. The Personnel director replied, “True, you both had all correct answers except for one. However, where Mr. Smith answered, ‘I don’t know,’ you put down, ‘Neither do I.’”
prasrinivara over 15 years ago
Thanks for the anecdote bmonk!
treered over 15 years ago
the ends justify the means
Bill_Wa over 15 years ago
Danae would do well in the Obama administration.
bmonk over 15 years ago
Actually, I cribbed the story from Click and Clack/Car Talk, so it fits the theme of the strip doubly well. (Triply, since they got it from someone else…)
peterkeenan over 15 years ago
ArthurAllen, you’re so right!! A lesson to be learned in the workforce, too - if you’re going to take the credit for someone else’s work, make sure it gets praised first, then tell everyone you did it.