Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 26, 1999
September 25, 1999
September 27, 1999
Transcript:
Lucy is home, putting on her coat, ready to leave for school and calls out, "Are you ready?"<BR><BR> Rerun, from under his sheets in bed replies, "Who knows?"<BR><BR> Lucy at Rerun's bedside asks, "Well, are you going to school or are you going to hide under your bed all day?"<BR><BR> Rerun, still under the sheets says, "Grampa says all you ever need to know is "I before E except after C"."<BR><BR> Lucy asks, What about Louis the Fourteenth or Florence Nightingale?"<BR><BR> Rerun replies, "Grampa says you don't need to know any of these things... "I before E except after C" is all you have to know..."<BR><BR> Rerun continues... "I'll come out when it's time to graduate..."<BR><BR> Lucy turns and walks away saying, "All right, I'll see you in twelve years..."<BR><BR> Rerun still under the bed...<BR><BR> Now in class, Rerun's kindergarten friend sitting beside him says, "What are you doing here? Somebody said you were hiding under your bed again..." Rerun, staring at a paper in his hands replies, "Twelve years is a long time... Who was Florence Nightingale?"<BR><BR>
She was the one who made up the “i before e, except after c” rule.