Hey look, a welsh corgi! More specifically, Ein from Cowboy Bebop, watching Cowboy Bebop. haha

DukeOliver

@rDub: Was his name Sparky, by any chance?

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

Ein is watching Cowboy Bebop!?

DreamWalker

I'm still trying to find the 5th reason...

and that's an adorable dog! I wants. :-)

RandaPanda0283

In one of my distance learning classes we had to turn our homework in to the internet dropbox thus supposedly removing any chance for any of the physically related excuses...

Funny enough; my neighbors dog actually ate through the cable linking my cable, phone, and internet thus I could have honestly used the "my neighbors dog ate it" excuse. Of course I was not in any classes when that happened so that chance has passed me by. Not to mention at the time the situation was not that funny at all, in fact I still bear a bit of animosity towards that dog.

rDub

@Earthslide: I think that's supposed to be Ed.

dingus

That dog looks totally like Ein from Cowboy Bebop. They even have a picture of Radical Edward on the screen. Awesome!

Midknyte

The Chinese internet haxorz took his dog out for a walk. The dog chewed on a burglar's cable taking out his interwebs so the burglar came over and tried to steal our computer but he dropped his beer on it so instead he just stole my fifth excuse for not having my homework

rDub

"I accidentally sat on my paper, and when I farted, it had paint all over it."

ripfire

At university, one of our profs basically said our report was due at 5PM - and that we were responsible for backing it up.

The reason for 5PM was in case your printer ran out of ink/toner, you'd have time to buy a new one, or hoof it to the computer labs and print it there. There were to be no excuses, to save often, copy it to floppies (back when 32MB of flash cost roughly $200 or so, and thumb drives were just as big and extremely pricey). And of course, if worst comes to worse, print out of drafts so you could re-type it if necessary. (This was also during the period after the end of class, but before exams).

Worf

@PobreGizmo: The fifth one was deleted by my dog.

ripfire

To get out of a assignment that was mandatory to get turned in by a certain date, which I missed due to many late hours playing Escape Velocity, I installed a extension on my powerbook which made all the letters and words appear onscreen backwards and told my Prof I had a virus. It got me a week extension. Once.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

Top five? What am I missing...hmm...number five...

kuba.la

@jdbaile3: It's Lich. No "T".

Congratulations. You failed both Vocabulary and Current Events.

OMG! Ponies!

Top four? Was the last one too much?

redandwhite

The fifth excuse was "I did my homework but then my iPhone sent it, along with a picture of my penis* to a co-worker".

*We're allowed to say "penis" on the internet, aren't we?

OMG! Ponies!

@jdbaile3:

lol, algebra paper

jdbaile3

Look Professor Algebra, don't you know that Wrath of the Litch King came out last week? So NO I did NOT write that paper.

Ok, I will let you off as long as you didn't roll a Death Knight.

jdbaile3

Stuff like the printer broke or it disappeared or it crashed work on my old English teacher in high school. I was that guy who could tell if they just hadn't done it. One guy didn't do his homework, and I looked at the flash drive that supposedly had it on there, found it on there as a hidden file that was only half done and explained everything to the teacher because the guy had pissed me off the day before. Lol. He was mad. Got a D on his assignment.

bagellord

the fifth excuse was to edgy.
even for this site.

Ibelieveinsandwitches

Haha nice pic! Dog looks like it's getting his groove on with Dr. Wiley.

Earthslide

First of all, my dog DID eat my spelling homework in second grade. She ate half of my vocabulary list (printed on a ditto - that's how old I am); on the other half, my mom wrote a note to Mr. LeBossier explaining that yes, my dog ate my homework.

Second, I am going to blame the dog on the repeated removal of the "iPhone affair" story.

Third, for all of you teachers and would-be teachers, do a good job and your students may remember your name lovingly after more than a quarter-century (see Point I)

OMG! Ponies!

i remember the first time someone blamed the printer for not working... my teacher kind of flipped and reminded us about pen and paper... oh and that our school had more printers than students... no one pulled that again

purple-pillows

top... four?

PobreGizmo

Looks like the top four excuses to me.

alexmetal

Corgis! Whose is it?

raptorrapture

@purple-pillows: so that's where the school budget went! in retrospect, do we really need all these damn printers?

magikal04

@OMG! Ponies!: So far...

Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler

@OMG! Ponies!: Yes, as long as that penis is paired with a vagina instead of another penis.

robinandtami

@Earthslide: That's my cousin!

EBone

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: Ahh no but that would be a good one~

rDub

Data Dog!

Mr.Gurbic

@magikal04: no way... but it saved me money... i still have never bought a printer

purple-pillows

The picture is quite amazing, haha XD

Ypoknons

I think his PC 'crashed' as he was writing the 5th reason.

magikal04

What a smart doggie!

I caught my cat on the computer once. He was downloading kitty porn.

Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler

@OMG! Ponies!: yes...

but you can prick your finger but not finger your prick.

RIP George Carlin

jcrockerman

@dingus: it in fact IS Ed, from Cowboy Bebop. The dog is supposed to be Ein.

jcrockerman

A oose once ate my homevork. And once a moose bit my sister...ah yes ze majestic moose.

VideoVampire

too*

yourfaceisjon

@Ypoknons: Not really. We'll do anything for snausages.

EBone

5th: My dog hogged the laptop all day long, so I couldn't do the homework!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@bagellord: What's the point in hiding the file, he should just delete it if he doesn't want to hand it in.

Dabamash

...can't stand it, you know I planned it, I'm-a set it straight this Watergate....

axiomatic

@OMG! Ponies!: Agreed on point III, the cool teachers that still know what the hell they're talking about will be respected and revered for years after their classes by their students.

Con Seannery

Haha, I can personally attest to this. I'm an industrial design student and one night this semester a lot of us were up at studio working late. At about 3 AM the school's servers went down, and we all checked out and expected our professor to believe this completely hindered us from finishing our work (it didn't). The next day in class, our professor walks in and wasn't too happy that our presentation for a client that was scheduled in less than 24 hours wasn't near finished.

Macobyte

@Con Seannery: Mrs. Cowan (English for the College Bound, World Lit & Modern Novel) FTW!!!!

shorty63136

@axiomatic: Never. Again.

Con Seannery

@Worf: Great way to remove all excuses. You can't claim lost data, no ink, no paper...BRILLIANT!

Con Seannery

a good tactic for presentations is saving the file as a pptx.

"oh darn, i have the powerpoint, these computers just can't open it!"

jbhitter24

@OMG! Ponies!:

My characters above level 70 would like to say that I only fail at spelling.

jdbaile3

@Comrade GadgetPlay, Fellow Traveler: I'm going to slap you for that pun

OMG! Ponies!

When I don't finish homework I don't go to school. Car troubles are vague and believable.

Decaye

@Earthslide: this has been the best caption/pic in a long time!!!! love Ed and EIN!!! Love CowBe!!!

Fuji-kun

@jcrockerman: I just realized the dog was watching a Cowboy bebop DVD... and come to think of it I agree with Jcrockerman, as it could be what he said!

segamanxero

i'm not ancient... but i can't even imagine being a student now.

like i was a student when any moderately technical excuse was considered black-magic. so it all worked really.

and sometimes it was actually real.

x23

As a college professor I can tell you that the number one excuse on my campus is the ever-believable "someone stole my USB memory stick in the Tech Center and I had to start all over".

I like to think that it's a cascading effect. One was stolen, so that student stole the next one to finish his homework, then that forced the next person to steal one...

Now there's evidently an epidemic of stealing $12 memory sticks. Or a lot of lazy students.

Drew draws fire from Ben Wojd...wodjyj...woldj...Ben.

@Fuji-kun: Cowboy Bebop FTW!

Ben Zvan

@jdbaile3:
The letter 's' after 'character' tells me you have further unmentioned failures.

im.thatoneguy