2008-11-06
Original: 2008-11-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: SHOWDOWN! 17th CENTURY EXPLORER vs. CALCULUS
Panel 1: A 17th-century explorer (a man in a red cloak with a gold-trimmed collar, reddish hair) looks at a graph on an easel. The graph is labeled "WHAT IS THE AREA BELOW THE CURVE?" with points marked α and β on a curve.
Panel 2: A close-up of the explorer leaning in. He has planted a small Spanish flag onto the area beneath the curve on the graph and written "Subcurvelania" in red across the region below the curve. The graph header ("...N THE CUR...") and points α and β are still partly visible. He has, in effect, claimed/colonized the area under the curve rather than calculating it.
Votey:
A woman (dark hair) speaks to a man holding a pen: "SWEETIE, DOING CALC JOKES DOESN'T MAKE YOU SMART."
The man replies: "IT MIGHT."
Panel 1: A 17th-century explorer (a man in a red cloak with a gold-trimmed collar, reddish hair) looks at a graph on an easel. The graph is labeled "WHAT IS THE AREA BELOW THE CURVE?" with points marked α and β on a curve.
Panel 2: A close-up of the explorer leaning in. He has planted a small Spanish flag onto the area beneath the curve on the graph and written "Subcurvelania" in red across the region below the curve. The graph header ("...N THE CUR...") and points α and β are still partly visible. He has, in effect, claimed/colonized the area under the curve rather than calculating it.
Votey:
A woman (dark hair) speaks to a man holding a pen: "SWEETIE, DOING CALC JOKES DOESN'T MAKE YOU SMART."
The man replies: "IT MIGHT."
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Two-panel comic titled "SHOWDOWN! 17th CENTURY EXPLORER vs. CALCULUS." Panel 1: a 17th-century explorer in a red cloak with a gold collar stares at a graph on an easel that asks "WHAT IS THE AREA BELOW THE CURVE?" with a curve marked at points alpha and beta. Panel 2, close-up: instead of computing the integral, the explorer has stabbed a tiny Spanish flag into the region under the curve and scrawled "Subcurvelania" across it in red, colonizing the area rather than calculating it. Votey: a dark-haired woman tells a man holding a pen, "Sweetie, doing calc jokes doesn't make you smart," and he answers, "It might."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.