B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 15, 2009

How did my teen-age daughter make it on here?

I’ve had students like that.

Better lower your nose, son, or you might run chin-first into the incalculable.

Nothing wrong with his self-esteem.

FPS Future public servant .

So that’s what my teachers meant!

Plenty wrong with his self-esteem, if it’s become inflated into chutzpah (unmitigated gall).

Yeah, I know, you’re being ironic. Love it.

When it came to math - particularly calculus - I was that way.

True. Either you’ve got it - or you don’t

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That kid could easily become a politician!

Math subject is NOT my type to learn. Too much to figure out to get the right answers.

The ant version of Jethro Bodine: “carry the naught, add the divisible and multiply it by the doo-thingy.”

Yeah, but where’s Uncle Jed to say “that boy sure can ‘cipher”?

Is that right? I didn’t go to hillbilly spelling school.

I took HS Physics in 1980 with a kid named Derek. In 1981, our teacher was using Derek’s class notes to teach the course…

You can’t tie down a Banjo Man.

Prisons and Congress are full of people who can’t learn.

fritzoid I saw that comment on Cul de Sac.

BC13, by now you’ve no doubt seen it MANY times…