The dog ate my homework
The dog ate my homework" is an english expression purported to be a favorite excuse made by schoolchildren explaining their failure to turn in an assignment on time. The claim of a dog eating one's homework is inherently suspect since it is both impossible for a teacher to disprove and conveniently absolves the student who gives that excuse of any blame.
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. 7] 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,[8] and the following year john r.
9] 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. This provided them with another possible excuse for missing homework, in the form of computer malfunctions.
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. 11] 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".
In a 1991 episode, a difficult day for bart begins with santa's little helper, the family dog, eating his homework. 16] in a later episode, when the dog goes to work for the police, bart must eat his own homework for the excuse to work.
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. 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.
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?
20] 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. 24] other books for young readers have had titles blaming aliens[25] and the protagonist's teacher[26] for the missing homework.
27] the dog ate my homework is the title of a british comedy/competition show first broadcast in 2014 on cbbc. Please try again hed on oct 22, 2015no one is going to believe the old excuse about the dog eating jenna's homework.
For a chance to get a shout out in next weeks video, comment down below if your dog has ever eaten your homework! January 2014 (2014-01-17) – /cbbc/shows/ dog ate my homework is a british children's panel show hosted by iain stirling and stars chris lawrence as mr smash and ian west, previously stephanie fulton, as the dog.
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