Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 07, 1980

Transcript:

Marcie and Peppermint Patty are sitting at their classroom desk writing. The latter says,"Seven, eight, nine, ten! Ha!!"<BR><BR> She picks up her sheet and looks at it saying,"7+3=10....that's an easy one Marcie..."<BR><BR> She shows Marcie the sheet and says,"Anything with a '3' is easy because you just take the first number and then count the little pointy things on the '3', and you have the answer!"<BR><BR> Marcie asks,"What about 'Twelves', sir?" Peppermint Patty replies,"No one can be expected to answer a problem with a 'Twelve' in it!"<BR><BR> She looks at the sheet again and continues,"If a problem has really big numbers in it, the answer is always 'one million'!"<BR><BR> She continues,"Math is like learning a foreign language, Marcie...no matter what you say, it's going to be wrong anyway!"<BR><BR> Marcie pushes her glasses atop her head and rolls her eyes as Peppermint Patty concludes,"Let's see...'nine plus three'...I take the nine and count the little pointy things on the three...ten, eleven, twelve....the answer is 'Twelve'....Ha!!"<BR><BR>