Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for April 11, 2013
Transcript:
Panel 1: "The way I see it, there's a limit to how much information a brain can store." Panel 2: Every time you tell me some random social studies fact, my brain has to make room for it by FORGETTING something else!" Panel 3: "So if I tell you that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793..." "ARGH!" Panel 4: "What?" "I just lost season 6: episode 3 of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation."
sonytv over 11 years ago
doesn’t matter, nate. just watch a rerun.
first comment
Mr Nobody over 11 years ago
No great loss. Not one of the better episodes.
Pharmakeus Ubik over 11 years ago
He’s got to have one of the least efficient brains ever. That knowledge about the cotton gin takes up as much as 44 minutes of mediocre science fiction, in living color!
favm over 11 years ago
There was something like that in Dilbert some time ago. I don’t remember when. Humm, maybe if I forget how much is two plus two….
TripleT over 11 years ago
Nate’s brain——→ 2GB
Supreme Comic Kid over 11 years ago
What a terrible bargain.
Nightlasher over 11 years ago
“Man of the People”? Not that great an episode, Nate.
Marvelmoan1114 over 11 years ago
Remember your important info, Nate!
StoicLion1973 over 11 years ago
Concur, most Deanna Troi eps were forgettable.
bignate creator over 11 years ago
I should have realized that people would know exactly what episode that was! I used to watch that show years ago and recently re-watched a couple episodes on netflix. Pretty cheesy.
OldestandWisest over 11 years ago
You are right, in one of the early Holmes stories, Watson is astonished to discover that Sherlock does’t know that the earth revolved around the sun! And Holmes explained that since that information was useless to him as a detective, he would, now that he knew it, try to forget it as soon as possible!
But I think Holmes may have just been pulling Watson’s leg. He was known to do that.
ncalifgirl58 over 11 years ago
Star Trek: Next Generation was one of the best series ever.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 11 years ago
Sorry to hear that Nate.
orbenjawell Premium Member over 11 years ago
Like The Lovin’ Spoonful used to sing: Did you ever have to make up your mind/to pick up on one and leave the other one behind/it’s not often easy, and not often kind/did you ever have to make up your mind……….??
bignatesgirl over 11 years ago
That’s not true, Nate. I can remember what happens in every book I read, every movie I watch, everything I learn at school, and how to spell any word I see in a book as long as I have seen it at least twice. I still have room for more!
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
The Cotton Gin lead directly to the Civil War because of the huge increase in slaves that was needed. Okay, of course, because as the spinners tell us, the slaves were happy in their bondage. Oh, and the Civil War was NOT about slavery, it was about ‘states rights’. It must be so because I heard it from the wingnuts.
hometownk Premium Member over 11 years ago
I always thought the cotton gin got its name when the inventor told his wife to “Keep your cotton-picking hands off my gin.”
brocktheboss1213 over 11 years ago
Star Trek? You can live without it. You CAN’T live without The Simpsons, Family Guy, Modern Family, and other comedies
Silvertiger over 11 years ago
I totally agree with you, ghostkeeper. Sherlock had the same theory and thus dismissed Watson’s telling him that the earth revolves around the sun because it has nothing to do with his line of work.
K M over 11 years ago
Now that’s a pile that really needs to be purged!
jessadinerose over 11 years ago
I’m exactly like Nate, well, sort of. I mean, whenever I try to focus on something important, some OTHER random thing will come across my mind and I forget what I was concentrating on. Really frustrating. .
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 11 years ago
No problem that show sucked!
Dark ages over 11 years ago
LOL
BIGNATE#EPIC281 over 8 years ago
NO!!!!!…
NOT STAR TREK!!!
super29392 about 8 years ago
Star Trek: next generation season 6 episode 3 reads: When the Enterprise comes to the rescue of an ambassador and his “mother”, Deanna finds herself attracted to him, and seeks to comfort him upon her death.
HalberCon about 4 years ago
wait,so you could remember a whole episode of something, but not one fact?
Arcery about 4 years ago
I’m pretty sure that’s been proven wrong
SamuelZhao almost 4 years ago
The brain can store 1 terabyte of information. It would take 300 years for the brain to reach maximum capacity
SamuelZhao over 3 years ago
I’m pretty sure “Angry Birds” isn’t played vertically