Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for July 13, 2014
July 12, 2014
July 14, 2014
Transcript:
Nate: Francis! Race ya! Francis: What kind of race? Nate: ANY kind! Nate: We can see who can run faster to the telephone pole... Nate: ... Or we can race our bikes over to the quarry... Nate: We can have a swimming race, a tree-climbing race... Whatever you want! Nate: YOU decide the kind of race! Francis: Okay... Francis: Let's list all the elements of the periodic table according to their atomic numbers! Francis: Fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur... Nate: He's quick.
There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium and indium and galliumAnd iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.
There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and caesium.
Good enough for ya?