2010-01-30
Original: 2010-01-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE
The comic is split into two columns, each labeled.
Left column header: SCIENCE FAN
Right column header: SCIENTIST
Left column (SCIENCE FAN):
Interviewer (a woman with red hair, seen from behind): How many digits of π have you memorized?
Science fan (a smiling man with round glasses, brown hair, wearing a green sweater vest over a blue shirt): 1,681. I add a new one every day.
Right column (SCIENTIST):
Interviewer (a woman with red hair, seen from behind): How many digits of π have you memorized?
Scientist (a man with brown hair wearing a black shirt, looking sheepish): ... ... ... ...one?
Votey:
The scientist (man with brown hair), looking down at a device in his hands: HOLD ON. I'LL LOOK IT UP.
The comic is split into two columns, each labeled.
Left column header: SCIENCE FAN
Right column header: SCIENTIST
Left column (SCIENCE FAN):
Interviewer (a woman with red hair, seen from behind): How many digits of π have you memorized?
Science fan (a smiling man with round glasses, brown hair, wearing a green sweater vest over a blue shirt): 1,681. I add a new one every day.
Right column (SCIENTIST):
Interviewer (a woman with red hair, seen from behind): How many digits of π have you memorized?
Scientist (a man with brown hair wearing a black shirt, looking sheepish): ... ... ... ...one?
Votey:
The scientist (man with brown hair), looking down at a device in his hands: HOLD ON. I'LL LOOK IT UP.
Alt text
A two-column comic titled "HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE," comparing a SCIENCE FAN (left) and a SCIENTIST (right). In both columns a red-haired interviewer, seen from behind, asks the same question: "How many digits of π have you memorized?" The SCIENCE FAN, a grinning man in glasses and a green sweater vest, proudly answers "1,681. I add a new one every day." The SCIENTIST, a man in a black shirt, looks sheepish and stammers "... ... ... ...one?" In the votey, the scientist looks down at a device in his hands and says, "Hold on. I'll look it up." The joke contrasts a fan's rote memorization with a real scientist's reliance on looking things up rather than memorizing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.