Las Excusas, or TheExcuses in English, is a story about a girl in Spanish class, Emma, who forgotto do her homework, but instead gives several excuses to the teacher, all ofwhich the teacher does not believe.
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"The dog ate my homework" (or "My dog ate my homework") is an English expression which carries the suggestion of being a common, poorly fabricated excuse made by schoolchildren to explain their failure to turn in an assignment on time. The phrase is referenced, even beyond the educational context, as a sarcastic rejoinder to any similarly glib or otherwise insufficient or implausible explanation for a failure in any context.
The excuse for the brevity of the document did not become the punchline for another 18 years. The first use of the phrase recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1929, in an essay in the British newspaper The Guardian: "It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework." This suggests it had been in use among students for some time prior to that.[3]
It was first reported in an American context in 1965. Bel Kaufman's bestselling comic novel, Up the Down Staircase, published that year, includes two instances where the protagonist's students blame their failure to complete their assignment on their dogs. In a section written as drama early in the book, one student refers to "a terrible tragedy ... My dog went on my homework!"[6] Later, a list of excuses includes "My dog chewed it up" and "the cat chewed it up and there was no time to do it over."[7]
The phrase became widely used in the 1970s.[8] Young adult novelist Paula Danziger paid homage to it with the title of her 1974 debut, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit.[9] Two years later Eugene Kennedy described Richard Nixon as "working on the greatest American excuse since 'the dog ate my homework'" in the Watergate tapes,[10] and the following year John R. Powers had a character in his novel The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-Cream God reminisce about having used that excuse as a student.[11] Lexicographer Barry Popik, who called it "the classic lame excuse that a student makes to a teacher to cover for missing homework", found citations in print increasing from 1976.[12]
During the next decade, personal computers became more common in American households and schools, and many students began writing papers with word processors. This provided them with another possible excuse for missing homework, in the form of computer malfunctions. Still, "the dog ate my homework" remained common. In a 1987 article on this phenomenon, one teacher recalled to The New York Times that once a student had given him a note signed by a parent saying that the dog had eaten his homework.[13] The following year President Ronald Reagan lamented Congress's apparent failure to pass that year's federal budget on time, "I had hoped that we had marked the end of the 'dog-ate-my-homework' era of Congressional budgetry", he told reporters on canceling a planned news conference to sign the bills, "but it was not to be". His use showed that the phrase had become more generalized in American discourse as referring to any insufficient or unconvincing excuse.[14]
Use of the phrase in printed matter rose steadily through the end of the century. It leveled off in the early years of the 2000s, but has not declined.[15] During the 2012 United States presidential campaign, Barack Obama's campaign used it to rebuke Mitt Romney for not participating in Nickelodeon's "Kids Pick the President" special. "'The dog ate my homework' just doesn't cut it when you're running for president."[16]
In 1989 the popular sitcom Saved By The Bell debuted. Its theme song included the line "the dog ate all my homework last night".[3] Thus embedded in the American consciousness, it would be exploited for comic purposes in other television shows and comic strips.
It became an occasional running gag on The Simpsons, which also began airing that year, mostly playing off Bart's tendency to offer ridiculous excuses for all sorts of misconduct to his teacher Mrs. Krabappel. In a 1991 episode, a difficult day for Bart begins with Santa's Little Helper, the family dog, eating his homework. "I didn't know dogs actually did that", he says, and finds his teacher equally incredulous since he had used that excuse before.[17] In a later episode, when the dog goes to work for the police, Bart must eat his own homework for the excuse to work.[18] When Mrs. Krabappel begins dating Ned Flanders, the Simpsons' neighbor, at the end of the 2011 season, she sees Santa's Little Helper in the Simpsons' yard and asks if he is the dog who has eaten Bart's homework so many times. Bart's attempts to demonstrate this and thus lend credibility to his use of the excuse backfire.[19]
Humorists have also punned on the phrase. A Sam Gross New Yorker cartoon from 1996 shows a Venetian classroom of several centuries ago where a standing student announces "The Doge ate my homework."[21]
Comic strips that feature anthropomorphized dogs as characters have found the concept of those characters eating homework a source of humor. In one of his Far Side panels, Gary Larson depicted a classroom of dogs whose teacher asks, "Did anyone here not eat his or her homework on the way to school?"[22] In a 1991 Dilbert strip, a boy on the street asks Dogbert to chew on his homework so he can have the excuse; in the last panel the boy, beaten, is shown in class claiming a dog made him eat it.[23]
There have been three different books that used the excuse as a title. Two have been collections of poetry for students with a school theme,[24][25] and one has been a business book about lessons dogs can teach about accountability.[26] Other books for young readers have had titles blaming aliens[27] and the protagonist's teacher[28] for the missing homework. A two-act children's musical called A Monster Ate My Homework has also been written.[29] The Dog Ate My Homework is the title of a British comedy/competition show first broadcast in 2014 on CBBC.[30]
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A blade's edge with centimeters of distrustpiercing through a vein at the end of it allsickly love spurts outEven my Les Paul guitar became a dangerous weaponIt's non-fictionI like math and scienceBut I'm terrible at Japanese so I hated itIf I worry about which answer is rightjokes on me, both were wrongToday's homework isMy basic selfWith just enough, with no complaintsLiving recentlyBut why do we sometimes-no, everydaySay we're sad, say we're lonelyCan you read the kanji on the blackboardCan you read the shape of her heart?Who colored that heart black?Hey, who was it? Hey, who was it!?Can you solve this problem on an abacus?Can you undo this collar on her neck?Can we keep going like this?Hey, what should I do?I don't care anymore!No matter how much time passes, we wereunder a crude hypnosisholding a large amount of pridehidden insideCan't do yesterday's homework as usualwith just enough, with no complaintsliving recentlyBut why does this lump in our hearts,say we want to disappear?Say we want to die?Can you read the kanji on the blackboard?Can you read the shape of her heart?Who colored that heart black?Hey, who was it? Hey, who was it!?Can you solve this problem on an abacus?Can you undo this collar on her neck?Can we keep going like this?Hey, what should I do? Hey, what should I do?Can you say the formula for area ratio?Can you say the dreams of your childhood?Who threw those dreams in a ditch?Hey, who was it?You know who it was!When are you going to grow up!?What is a grown-up anyway?Do you know who has the answers?Hey, what should I do?I don't care anymore!
Back in the last days of WWII, the Finns were doubtful if the Russians would honor the peace treaty, so a lot of ammo and weapons were stashed to various locations in preparation for a guerilla warfare in case of occupation, and written of as lost during combat. One of the most famous "lost gear" cases involved a Finnish long range recon party (kaukopartio in Finnish), that upon returning to base reported that on their way back they had lost "X number of Suomi SMG's, all magazines to those and x number of rounds, with some radios and other equipment, in a BOATING ACCIDENT".
Exactly that. This meme has been around longer than "meme"; longer than the internet. Origin to my view is with fears of the FFL sales book. ATF: "Says here you bought this gun. Cough it up." 2A fan: "Sold it. Sorry." Then private transfers are outlawed. ATF: "So where's the gun?" 2A fan: "Lost it. Sorry." (fell out of truck, down the well, lost in woods, out fishin') Then being dumb is outlawed. ATF: "Don't see your lost/stolen report. Give it." 2A fan: "Shhhirt.... Say, did you know I'm a 5A fan now?" Then internet was invented. Then "meme" was invented. Then reality follows fantasy. Only then did new gun folks find a funny old gun joke. We didn't Photoshop back in the day, so the pics are a hoot.
Over the past four weeks at Penn State, I have been attacked with an abundance of information. Information on where classes are, what to study for a test, what time a club starts and so on. As I continue to forget little pieces of information in my classes, I realized I can still recite the lyrics to American Pie (a song that came out when I was only three years old). So why can we remember song lyrics so well, but not information we need to know in class? 2ff7e9595c
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