2009-12-29
Original: 2009-12-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A man with glasses and gray hair, standing at a podium in what appears to be a legislative or committee hearing, speaks toward a panel of officials seated at a raised desk. Other attendees are seen from behind in the foreground.
Man at podium: "WAIT... YOU WANT TO FUND MATH EDUCATION WITH A PROGRAM THAT ONLY MAKES MONEY BECAUSE POOR PEOPLE AREN'T TAUGHT STATISTICS?"
Caption (below panel): Mathematicians are no longer allowed at the state lottery funds debate.
Votey:
Panel 1: The same man with glasses speaks to another person.
Man: "WE NEED A COMBINATION OF MATH ACUMEN AND PURE EVIL."
Panel 2: Label at top reads "SOON". A person stands outside a building. A sign on the building reads "ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT".
A man with glasses and gray hair, standing at a podium in what appears to be a legislative or committee hearing, speaks toward a panel of officials seated at a raised desk. Other attendees are seen from behind in the foreground.
Man at podium: "WAIT... YOU WANT TO FUND MATH EDUCATION WITH A PROGRAM THAT ONLY MAKES MONEY BECAUSE POOR PEOPLE AREN'T TAUGHT STATISTICS?"
Caption (below panel): Mathematicians are no longer allowed at the state lottery funds debate.
Votey:
Panel 1: The same man with glasses speaks to another person.
Man: "WE NEED A COMBINATION OF MATH ACUMEN AND PURE EVIL."
Panel 2: Label at top reads "SOON". A person stands outside a building. A sign on the building reads "ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT".
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic set at a government hearing. A gray-haired man in glasses stands at a podium addressing a panel of officials seated behind a raised desk; other audience members are visible from behind. He says: "Wait... you want to fund math education with a program that only makes money because poor people aren't taught statistics?" The caption below reads: "Mathematicians are no longer allowed at the state lottery funds debate." The joke skewers state lotteries as a regressive tax on statistical ignorance, dressed up as funding education. Votey (aftercomic, in sketchy black-and-white): The same man tells someone, "We need a combination of math acumen and pure evil." Then a panel labeled "SOON" shows a person standing outside a building marked "ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT" — implying economics is exactly that fusion of math skill and evil.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.