2010-12-01
Original: 2010-12-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title text (above the comic): THIS IS WHY PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN STATISTICS:
Panel 1:
A blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses, scowling.
Woman: I will NOT fly in a plane! They aren't safe from terrorists!
Panel 2:
The same woman is now driving a car on a busy road, holding a phone in one hand and the steering wheel with the other.
Woman: Hold on. I'll text you an article about it.
Votey:
The blonde woman, holding her phone up, speaking.
Woman: It's safe. I have a headset.
Panel 1:
A blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses, scowling.
Woman: I will NOT fly in a plane! They aren't safe from terrorists!
Panel 2:
The same woman is now driving a car on a busy road, holding a phone in one hand and the steering wheel with the other.
Woman: Hold on. I'll text you an article about it.
Votey:
The blonde woman, holding her phone up, speaking.
Woman: It's safe. I have a headset.
Alt text
A two-panel comic titled "THIS IS WHY PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN STATISTICS:" In the first panel, a blonde woman in dark sunglasses scowls and declares, "I will NOT fly in a plane! They aren't safe from terrorists!" In the second panel, the same woman is shown driving a car through traffic while holding a phone in her hand, saying, "Hold on. I'll text you an article about it." The joke is that she fears the statistically very safe activity of flying while doing the genuinely dangerous thing of texting while driving. Votey (a small follow-up panel, drawn in rough black-and-white): the woman holds up her phone and says, "It's safe. I have a headset" — missing the point that she is looking at the phone to text, not just talking on it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.