Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 03, 2014
October 02, 2014
October 04, 2014
Transcript:
Mrs. Olsen: Caulfield, please pipe down. Not another word! Frazz: "If you can't say anything at all, don't say something nice"? Caulfield: We were studying the commutative property of stuff.
This one hurt my head to figure out. The commutative property in math means you can switch things around and get he same answer: 1+2 = 2+1. Caulfield took the phrase “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” and tried to reverse it: “if you can’t say anything, don’t say something nice.” In Caulfield’s twisted logic, since Mrs. Olsen told him not to say anything, the commutative property told him he should say something not nice. And he got in trouble for it.