So again, though, I hate to say it, there's so many of these excuses, it's a little bit of the dog ate my homework syndrome now.

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Instead, a private school in Scotland has given sleek new iPads to every single one of its pupils to use in class and to even take home, nixing the excuse that the dog ate their homework.

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" "My dog ate the math lesson.

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He could have explained that Bo, the presidential first-dog, ate his homework.

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Arty excused himself, and bought a hot dog and a jumbo pretzel, which he ate in the car as he drove home.

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He ate a hot dog and drank a soda and he sucked the salted peanuts and the wooden spoon from his chocolate-malt ice cream.

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