As with all my school-oriented comics, this one is loosely based on truth. In the real life version it was the students which failed the grasp the idea of how this exam would work. Yet somewhere in the script the teacher became the loser as likely part of my anti-authority bias.

Back in the days of grade school, I loved geography. Heck that obsessive love is still there. I even ranked second place in a geography quiz competition. Now its easy to figure out what you’re thinking and the answer is ‘Yes.’ It did, in fact, make me the second coolest kid in school.

Unfortunately, I didn’t win. Some sort of nonsense in quadruple overtime made me fall short on a question about the Red Sea. Apparently it wasn’t the Caspian Sea which was created by the continental drift between the Middle East and Africa.

Surprised that I remember the exact question nine years later? Think that I hold any ill will or sour feelings from losing a competition that should have been me who won?! It could have been me in the regionals! I would have done so much better that lucky glasses wearing nerd! One can only hope he found his way to the Red Sea and drowned!

Okay, okay. Thats a bit overboard. I need to calm down… but dammit I love my geography. If there is one thing to take seriously in life its that. Last thing you want to be is that jackass on a late-night show unable to find Germany on a map. Oh ha-ha-ha television show. You found someone who has trouble picking out Iraq. How quickly can you correctly rearrange the Middle Eastern countries by alphabetical order! Betchya It’d be slower then me, cuz its on now. You wanna throw down some geography skillz? Huh?! You don’t know who you’re messing with! I keep it real.