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Can The Dog Still Eat Your Homework?

Oct 13, 2012 (Weekend Edition Saturday) — It may be the best known bad excuse for being unprepared: "The Dog Ate My Homework." But where does the phrase come from and how has it changed over the years? Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks with Forrest Wickman, a reporter with Slate Magazine, who has the answers.

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