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Sunday I'll tell you ONE good thing that's come out of practicing this magic act with Scotty Douglas: It's given me a bunch of good ideas for more Creighton the Cretin comics. Rowley quit doing his comic strip "Zoo-Wee Mama!" for the school paper a few months ago, because he said he wanted to have more time to play with his Dinoblazer action figures. That means the cartoonist job is open again, and maybe I have a shot.

星期天，我要告诉你一件和斯科特·道格拉斯一起表演魔术的好处：它给了我很多关于Creighton the Cretin漫画的好主意。 几个月前，罗利放弃了为校报创作连环漫画《祖妈妈》，因为他说他想有更多的时间玩他的恐龙人偶。 这意味着漫画家的职位又空缺了，也许我有机会。

Well, good news on the Talent Show. The tryouts were today, and me and Scotty didn't make it in. OK, so maybe I could have done a better job as Scotty's assistant. But I didn't blow it on PURPOSE. I just forgot to hand him his props once or twice. We were the ONLY ones who didn't make the cut, and that actually is kind of embarrassing. I know we weren't exactly the best act trying out today, but we weren't the WORST, either. Some of the acts that got in were a lot lamer than our magic act. This kindergartner named Harry Gilbertson made the cut, and all he did was roller-skate figure eights around a boom box that was playing "Yankee Doodle

才艺秀上有好消息了。 今天是选拔赛，我和斯科特没能晋级。 好吧，也许我做斯科特的助理可以做得更好。 但我不是故意搞砸的。 我只是有一两次忘了给他道具。 我们是唯一没有入选的人，这实际上有点尴尬。 我知道我们今天的选拔赛并不是最好的，但我们也不是最差的。 有些入选的表演比我们的魔术表演烂多了。 这个叫哈里·吉尔伯森的幼儿园孩子入选了，他所做的就是绕着放着《扬基歌》的音响滑8字形旱冰

Dandy." Rodrick's band made it in, too, and he's acting like that's some huge accomplishment. Like I said before, Rodrick is really excited about the Winter Talent Show. In fact, he actually got his Science Fair project done a day EARLY so he could squeeze in some extra band practices before the big night. But when Rodrick turned in his project, his Science teacher told him he was gonna have to start over and come up with a whole new idea. He said that Rodrick didn't use the "scientific method" with a hypothesis and a conclusion and all that. Rodrick told the teacher he actually grew a sixteenth of an inch during his "zero gravity" experiment, so that proved he was on to something. nkledc. But his teacher said that's a normal amount for a boy

花花公子。”罗德里克的乐队也成功了，他表现得好像这是一个巨大的成就。 就像我之前说的，罗德里克对冬季才艺表演非常兴奋。 事实上，他提前一天完成了他的科学展项目，这样他就可以在重要的夜晚之前挤出一些额外的乐队练习。 但当罗德里克交作业时，他的科学老师告诉他，他必须重新开始，想出一个全新的想法。 他说，罗德里克没有使用“科学方法”来提出假设和结论等等。 罗德里克告诉老师，在他的“零重力”实验中，他实际上长高了十六分之一英寸，所以这证明他是对的。 但他的老师说这对一个男孩来说是正常的

Rodrick's age to grow in a month. Well, this really stinks for me, because I had decided to do my Science Fair project on "zero gravity," too. And now it looks like all the research I did was just a big waste of time. Dad told Rodrick he's going to have to just skip the Talent Show so he can do a new experiment, but Rodrick says he's not going to do it. Rodrick told Dad he doesn't CARE about school anymore. He said his plan is to win the talent show

罗德里克将在一个月内长大。 好吧，这对我来说真的很糟糕，因为我也决定在科学展上做一个关于“零重力”的项目。 现在看来我做的所有研究都是在浪费时间。 爸爸告诉罗德里克，他必须跳过才艺表演，这样他就可以做一个新的实验，但罗德里克说他不会这么做。 罗德里克告诉爸爸他不再关心学校了。 他说他的计划是赢得才艺表演

and use the tape of the performance to get signed to a record label. The he'll quit school and just do the band full-time. It sounds like a terrible plan to me, but I think Dad is pretty open to the idea. Wednesday Tonight was the big Winter Talent Show. I didn't want to go, and neither did Dad. But Mom made us both go to show our support for Rodrick.

然后用演出的带子和唱片公司签约。 然后他会退学，全职做乐队。 对我来说，这听起来是个糟糕的计划，但我认为爸爸对这个想法是相当开放的。 周三今晚是冬季才艺大秀。 我不想去，爸爸也不想去。 但妈妈让我们俩都去是为了表示对罗德里克的支持。