- Biology teacher: In the last two weeks of school, everyone may give a short multimedia presentation about their favorite topic in biology.
- Students: Yay!
- Biology teacher: Except for Larisa.
- Larisa: What’s wrong with human reproduction?!
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[0462] Exemption Clause
└ posted on Monday, 11 March 2013, by Novil
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Smart thinking on the teacher’s part. I can see him advance in the human evolution if he keeps it up like that.
She’s going to do it anyway, isn’t she?
So she can just do one on Forest Fires and their Place in the Natural World.
Larisa: …And here we see the consequences of not letting forest fires take their natural course. *giggle* The fire crosses the puny firebreak here, and the deeper layer of leaf litter and deadfall in the supposedly fire-protected woodland around the now doomed town ignites with devastating effect! Watch the people run for their lives, as their puny buildings go up around them! Muhahahah! Run, you fools, RUN! BWAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Biology teacher: Thank you Larisa, for that energetic performance… *mops brow* I think the maniacal laughter and gloating really added something… er, A+, yes… now, Sandra North… something a little more… sedate, I hope?
I can’t help but think that somewhere in the crowd Landon is breathing a sigh of relief.
All I’m going to say is that was a smart move on the teacher’s part. Otherwise day of show Larisa would drag Landon into class with one had and a folding cot in the other. It would be all downhill from there.
I have never seen a group of high school students this excited about the prospect of having to prepare a presentation in class.
Aww, it would have been multimedia.
Biology Teacher: Well, “human reproduction” doesn’t involve torture and… how the hell do you even know things I wasn’t aware of until I had two kids?
Larissa: Oh, it’s all on the internet. Just go to http://www...
Biology Teacher: (interrupts) STOP IT! No human reproduction for you until you are 18!
Sandra: (whispering) Was it the site you showed me last time?
Larissa: Yep.
Sandra: You’re disgusting!
Larissa: Yep.
“Fine, fine… Spontaneous Human Combustion it is, then…”
Larissa, you are just plainly too many years ahead of your time. Your going to be a heart breaker when you grow up… assuming that you haven’t permanently lassoed Landon.
Just imagine the visual aids!.
*Two weeks later*
Teacher: “I can’t believe in the end I allow Larissa to do a presentation. Damn blackmail…..”
Larissa: “I will represent you the topic about human reproduction!”
Teacher: “Oh God here it goes…..”
Larissa: “So there’s this bird and this bee…..”
Teacher: “Wait WHAT?!”
Actually, I also have to wonder what’s wrong with that topic. The instructor just needs to establish certain restrictions, like the presentation must not get the teacher in trouble, and the presentation must not make the audience throw up (actual guidelines one of my professors gave us for a free topic presentation). The students are old enough to have already taken sex ed in school, so they’d know this stuff anyway, and it’s better than having them learn about it on their own.
I’d say Larissa gets to give one on her choice of: A. Eukaryotic cells . B. Mitochondria. C. DNA ligase.
Preview and editing by teacher required.
As for why not… we know Larissa. She might just start a fire (metaphorically in this case) under certain portions of the student body that might be discussed in such a presentation on ‘Human Reproduction’. Larissa does that stuff.
Apparently all the kids seem to be excited about what is basically extra homework. Is it just me or is there something disturbingly wrong here?
A part of me is morbidly curious about her take on the subject of reproduction (or anything else for that matter), for the shear randomness of her actions and ideas. But the other part of me feels that the cake is a lie, and it is much better never knowing, then to go to my grave haunted by her insanity. I am really split on this. =?
Hey thats profiling! I bet her presentation would be very well thought and informati– … uhh … forgot I was talking about Larisa for a sec there heheh.
Really Larisa? The whole wide world of biology, and human reproduction is the worst thing you can think of?
Hagfish tie themselves in knots to smear mucus over their bodies. Hairy frogs break their toes to stab predators with the broken bones. And don’t get me started on parasites. There are some horrible, horrible parasites out there that you don’t want to know anything about. Turning ants into mind-controlled suicide zombies is the least that they do.
Why is the teacher wearing a Sam Browne belt?
Does he carry a gun to class?
i miss woo… WOO WHERE ARE YOU
That teacher is going to go far in his chosen field. He knows how to keep his students enthusiastic, and he has an eye for each individual’s needs.
In Larisa’s case, she needs lines that she can’t cross. :p
Well, in this day and age a teacher having a gun with them may be a suggested safety precaution sadly.
The great thing about this comic is that also the comments are a part of its comicity! 😉
@ Frozenwolf150:
It’s not that ‘human reproduction’ is a bad topic. It’s just that Larisa would probably provide a, er, ‘graphic demonstration’.
StarCreator wrote:
Me neither… mostly I have seen people annoyed with yet another boring and uterrly useless work.
Perhaps few people were excited when they were talking about the topic they were really interested in…
Say I liked presentation about Chernobyl “disaster”, it was actualy interesting(from ecological point of wiev… not the crap media give but actual impacts on foodchains, and interaction of living things with change of enviroment), but I always knew half of the class isn´t actualy interested and even is someonw was they simply did not understand what really hapened.
But well it seems to me that people from US are excited to talk and present things even when they utterly lack any results of their actual work to talk about. They can present anything well… just most of the time one realizes that they actualy did not meet requirements.
There was one exchange student from US at out faculty… in the end he had to present some results of his work in one subject… well the presentation was nice… but in the end most of us realized that he did not meat actual goals set up in the beggining… he was quite devastated when department head told him that magnificient pile of words can not hide utter lack of any results (even negative ones) and simply did not give him any credits for that subject.
Human reproduction is a fascinating topic.
that might have something to do with my fetish, though…
Nice save, teacher man.
Am I that’s wondering what Benjamin and Theo is smirking about? They probably are going to have something planned for the next strips…
@ Mr_Nabby:
“Am I the only one that’s-“
Wait, isn’t “human reproduction” everyone‘s favorite topic in biology?
@ StarCreator: I think it’s middle school.
@ Frozenwolf150:
Either you haven’t read this comic from the beginning, or you are far to serious a person to have been reading this.
Larisa is not the most subtle (Word choice?) of creatures, and it is multimedia.
I’d be more worried about what those two on the left are plotting than anything Larisa can bring to term.
Larissa aside, we know several other students in the class.
Will Sandra choose to do her presentation on either Procyon lotor or Procyon lotor subsp. woo? 😀
@ mittfh:
Can we consider Woo a genuine “subspecies,” or is he a fluke?
@ Rex Vivat:
It’s a short presentation–as compared to a 5-page single spaced essay on their subject. Heck, i’d be pretty relieved to have that as my final project with two whole weeks to complete.
I wonder how many of those students are thinking of skipping the presentation and claiming their favorite topic was the sloth family. 😛
@ Jolle:
I’ve read this comic from the start and am quite familiar with Larisa’s character, and her potential for comedy. I can also relate to her situation, of having your creativity stifled or others assuming the worst about you. My point was that a good teacher would let students report on any topic that inspires them, as long as there are some guidelines in place. What’s wrong with human reproduction? It’s not like she’s doing a report on filarial worms in undeveloped countries…
@ Malchus:
Relief? I was thinking more like disappointment.
Who else saw this coming.
@ andreas:
E. L. James, you have doomed us all.
Oh no! You’re right! They’ve already been replaced by the pods! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ JKelley:
It may be a wider subspecies than just Woo – Lily’s fairly unconventional too: how many raccoons have a burrow with a pool table, large screen TV and stereo system ref. ([305] “Cuddling”)?
(Although AFAWK it’s just Woo that can communicate with humans – even if Lily did have the same ability, she’s too shy / apprehensive around humans to be near them for any length of time, let alone attempt to communicate).
Y’know, judging from the way those two guys are grinning and elbowing each other, I think they’re planning the same thing Larisa is.
What is wrong with human reproduction? ._. Of all the biological topics out there, it’s one of the most crucial people understand…
Do a presentation on the biology of human pregnancy. Explain morning sickness, swollen ankles, weight gain, mood swings, present to the girls in the class what they may wind up experiencing. For the males, present to them the hormonal swings, the cravings, the demands, the indulgences they will be expected to do. Don’t of course turn them off human reproduction, no of course not; just make sure they understand the consequences!
@ StarCreator: its a bio assignment… nuff said
It doesn’t matter what Larisa would have said! “Except Larisa” is still the best clause ever!
@ StarCreator: Believe me, when you’re never allowed to choose the topic or the group, you get excited
@ Greenwood Goat:
And then, 15 years later, Larissa maries a firefighter captain with unheard of records of fire quenching. ^^
@ Frozenwolf150:
Nothing’s wrong with it but I’m guessing that Larissa would pull off a presentation that emulates Monty Python