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![[1082] History Buff](/comics/2019-05-14-1082-history-buff.png "[1082] History Buff")
- Sandra: Ha! I aced the test! Looks like Cloud’s birthday didn’t distract me too much after all. — No! Wait a moment!
- Question: [4] Please state the most important milestones in the life of the French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre.
- Teacher: Time’s up, guys!
- Larisa: I ain’t no history buff by any means, Sandy, but I’m pretty sure that the French revolution wasn’t caused by “chlorophyll.”
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Sandra has just flunked that test so outrageously, I think she deserves some sort of award.
Novil… This is utterly brilliant…
You aced it…
Really nice! I laughs very hard
Big Oof…
I hope the teacher does have a D20 in his pocket for a disbelief double-roll.
“I ain’t no history buff…”
Larisa’s not much of an English buff, either.
I mean, At least she foiled those polynomials correctly…
You ever have one of those days?
Rarefoil wrote:
Oh, regularly! Oysh . . .
Teacher: “Somehow you managed to perfectly express the answer in pure mathematics, and I am but a speck of dust before your brilliance.”
Larissa said:
Oh yes it was. Without chlorophyll, there would be no(t enough) breathable air*, and without air there would be no humans*, and without humans there would be no France*, and without France there would be no French Revolution*.
* as we know it/them
@ Centaur:
Actually, there was a grat thunderstorm in 1788 that destroyed most of cereals and edible plants in French, leading to starvation then to riots.
And because aristocracy kept the major part of food for itself, therefore French peasants got angry and that could explain the Revolution.
So yeah, I ain’t no History buff myself, but I’m French and you can say that French Revolution was partially caused by “chlorophyll” 😉
@ Centaur:
Me, I just blame the frogs
Something of the sort happened to me when I was little.
I had studied for a history test, turns out it was actually a geography test and either I had marked the date wrong or I just confused it or something.
Anyways, I still aced the test, though. What I could retain in my memory of the classes of the past months was enough for me to understand the logic of the questions and answer them correctly. My answers were simpler and literally “in my own words”, instead of the usual “copy and paste” the books after memorizing them, but they were still all correct.
Needless to say the history test the NEXT DAY was a piece of cake due to double studying for it: I finished it in minutes.
In the end, all you really need to ace a test is to pay enough attention in class so that you actually learn and keep the knowledge in your memory forever and not attempt to memorize things before the test as most people end up doing. Though, then again, part of this is also the fault of the exams themselves. I really hate those history questions that ask you the date of a certain event and then give you 5 options like… 1 day apart each so that you have to remember the exact day, month and year in order to answer it, instead of at least just a more or less accurate estimative.
If anything, I think asking for the exact dates is a waste, because all that question tells you is if you’re good at remembering dates and not if you actually understood the event or its causes and consequences. I’d rather they just asked instead for the causes and consequences or maybe a simple sum up of the event. It’s much more useful knowledge.
@ darevenin:
I was going to say that…
Has anyone else noticed that the first two numerals in the math problem are the day and month of Robespierre’s birth? Or is it just me….
Robespierre’s face on July 28th, 1794 must have been close from Sandra’s. And maybe the sentence he could have pronounced would have been the same (« Np ! Wait a moment ! ») if he hadn’t a broken jaw.
Clearly, the French Revolution was caused by the potato
Even in France we don’t get questions on Robespierre’s life. Except the shit he did in the Terror, and then details on his death, I guess that makes two milestones, but I also suppose that would just be partial credit in that test.
Robespierre had it coming, just like Custer.
It kind of was. Lack of food was the big reason the sans-coulottes got involved, the womens march on Versailles and so on. And you kind of need Clorophyll for food.
He said “Times up ‘guys'” girls are obviously allowed another 15 minutes ^_^. Abuse those technicalities, Sandra!
@ Rei Rei:
Yes, but I made somme mispellings : “grat” instead of “great” and “in French” instead of “in France”.
But at least, this proves that I’m French because of my bad English 😉