Heart of the City by Steenz for September 06, 2016
Transcript:
Dean: "David Glasgow Farragut was a famous admiral the United States Navy...." Dean:"At the age of nine, he was commissioned a midshipman." Heart: Wow, he joined the navy at age nine?! Heart: Sounds like a great way to dodge first period math. Dean: I'd definitely have to give my mom a heads up.
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
You either study to work at something, or avoid the study to become something else. It’s really not that difficult to understand, and yet life in itself gives you too many complications.
blunebottle about 8 years ago
I don’t even remember BEING nine!
hcarpenter1 about 8 years ago
goodness not sure that idea is so great to get out of math class.
JPuzzleWhiz about 8 years ago
That’s “a famous admiral IN the United States Navy,” Mark!
PoodleGroomer about 8 years ago
Try dead reckoning and celestial navigation 4 times a night and you’ll wish for elementary math. If you get the problem wrong, you die slowly at sea.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 8 years ago
I don’t think your mom would like that idea.
spazmaticcelery about 8 years ago
Midshipmen learn at lot of math.
sjsczurek about 8 years ago
Even in Farragut’s day, a naval officer had to know about sines and cosines, et cetera et cetera, to handle and command a sailing ship.
Today, if you want to become a Navy officer, you’d better master at least your trigonometry. Calculus would be a plus.
gcarlson about 8 years ago
My cousin Matt at about 12 commented that he’d like to be a truck driver so he wouldn’t have to do math. My brother-in-law, a trucker at the time, could only laugh – fuel, load, mileage, etc. etc. Matt’s now career Navy, though repairing jets rather than navigating.
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
School truly is a miserable mass of mundanity.