Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 16, 2012
February 15, 2012
February 17, 2012
Transcript:
Dad: So... what was your mistake? Baldo: Well, I left-clicked my cursor on wikipedia, control-C'D it, flipped to my english paper and control V'D it. Dad: I seeeee... Dad: As long as you didn't control 'F' it! Baldo: You don't know what I did, do you?
rayannina almost 13 years ago
I know what he did! And he will most certainly be Ctrl-X’d by the teacher when he finds out!
spamster almost 13 years ago
yeah, most wikipedia articles dont exactly read like an english paper
TheSoundDefense almost 13 years ago
Either Ctrl+X or Alt+F4 is in his future.
makahorney almost 13 years ago
Ctrl-A + Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V = Plagiarism and a big fat zero
phuhknees almost 13 years ago
Baldo F’d up…
Gator007 almost 13 years ago
It’s greek to me!
hawkeye761 almost 13 years ago
It’s all Geek to me
PShaw0423 almost 13 years ago
On the off-chance that you’re not just pulling our legs, Baldo is saying that he copied (using keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C) text from an article in Wikipedia, and pasted (Ctrl-V) the text into his English paper. Not exactly plagiarism, if he correctly cited Wikipedia as the source (snerk!), but not what the teacher wanted at best..Ctrl-A is the keyboard shortcut to select everything on the screen for copying and pasting…which would be pretty stupid, since it would copy the Wikipedia logo as well.,Funky Winkerbean recently had a brief story arc with a teacher confronting a student about lifting his paper directly from Wikipedia — the student is honestly, and invincibly, baffled over how this could possibly be wrong: after all, if it’s on the Internet, it doesn’t actually belong to anyone, so it’s free…. That’s a depressingly true, and common, scenario — at least Baldo knows that he made a mistake.
-Saint- almost 13 years ago
He can always hit the ‘Undo’ button as well.
cork almost 13 years ago
control z
Dillithamir almost 13 years ago
for those unfamiliar with keyboard short-cuts,ctrl+c = copyctrl+v = pastectrl+x = cut
ctrl+f = find — but it looks like the punch-line didn’t know that
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I always knew what copy, paste and cut meant but the vernacular ( control V’d and C’d) for identifying them has changed, I guess when i wasn’t looking.We always just said copy and paste………….
Yukoneric almost 13 years ago
Son-in-law failed the son of a college official for doing just this…………..
pfantom58 almost 13 years ago
These young folk don’t know how good they have it! Back in the day of paper books, we actually had to physically copy from an encyclopedia with pen and paper and then use a typewriter and cabon paper to ‘print’ our report
danlarios almost 13 years ago
just hit the delete button when he starts flapping his lips
8arkay almost 13 years ago
@Mona, yep. That’s why a teacher finally suggested I learn Irish copperplate calligraphy to even be halfway legible. It worked. But I still prefer being on horseback or on the tractor…
masnadies almost 13 years ago
I was giving kids (OK, college students) zeros for copying from the internet nearly 20 years ago. It’s pretty obvious, when the kid’s writing style changes dramatically.