WICKMAN: It's hard to point to anyone in particular. SIMON: So, near as you can tell, who was the first person to say something like, the dog ate my homework? SIMON: You know that old excuse that makes people groan, palpably ridiculous, right? But was it always so? This week Forrest Wickman of Slate magazine traced the origin of that phrase school kids have used for decades to explain why they don't have their homework and adults have cited as what amounts to an exemplar of absurdity.įorrest Wickman joins us from Slate in New York.
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