I hear these questions about 24 times per class, five classes per day, five days per week. Yeah, that's 600, alright.
Okay, maybe not Do and Die. I'd settle for Do and Pass.
This is it, I think. I don't expect to be doing a 700 Club reference in 100 more comics.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, (1897), by Richard Caton Woodville, is in the public domain.
Ya couldn't run it by an English teacher? Who would have said, "Did you really mean to say, 'Their is not to question why, Their is but to do or die?' Out, out, d***ed apostrophes!" Or something to that effect.
ReplyDeleteApologies for munging the quote.
ReplyDeleteActually, I ran it through Google, looking for the actual text. Most (though not all) of the pages I checked it as "Their's".
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I don't own a copy of the original work. And as much as I strive for proper English, I wasn't going to change the quotation.
I suppose I could've added a "[sic]".
My somewhat apologies, then. "Somewhat" because, when I entered CotLB into Google, the first three entries [including the link from Wikipedia] had it up to my pedantic standards. After several entries about the historical event, Wikisource had the apostrophe.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the disdain in which many Web authors hold such things as grammar and spelling, it may even appear in other forms. ["There's"?]
I should add that I very much like your comic. I frequently show it to other nascent mathematicians in my household [son, daughter] - it's one that I CAN show them!
ReplyDeleteI think that's one of the reason that I can't get as high a readership as some of the other comics out there (most of which, I enjoy). I don't dwell on anatomical, scatological and reproductive jokes, though there have been times I've thought of throwing that all away over a "poop" joke.....
ReplyDeleteAw, nuts, just thought of another one while typing this ....