2012-07-21
Original: 2012-07-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A woman with short dark hair and round glasses, dressed in a gray sweater, stands at the front of a classroom gesturing with her hands. The backs of three students' heads are visible in the foreground.
Woman (professor): "HOW DO I REMEMBER? I JUST LOOK AT MY HAND, AND THERE'S FIVE FINGERS, AND THAT'S ABOUT THE VALUE OF PI."
Caption (below comic): Physics professors shouldn't teach geometry.
Votey:
A rough black-and-white sketch of a person on the right speaking to someone off-panel.
Person (off-panel, large speech bubble): "HOW MANY FINGERS ARE ON YOUR HAND?"
Sketched person on the right: "ABOUT TEN?"
A woman with short dark hair and round glasses, dressed in a gray sweater, stands at the front of a classroom gesturing with her hands. The backs of three students' heads are visible in the foreground.
Woman (professor): "HOW DO I REMEMBER? I JUST LOOK AT MY HAND, AND THERE'S FIVE FINGERS, AND THAT'S ABOUT THE VALUE OF PI."
Caption (below comic): Physics professors shouldn't teach geometry.
Votey:
A rough black-and-white sketch of a person on the right speaking to someone off-panel.
Person (off-panel, large speech bubble): "HOW MANY FINGERS ARE ON YOUR HAND?"
Sketched person on the right: "ABOUT TEN?"
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. A woman with short dark hair and round glasses, wearing a gray sweater, stands at the front of a classroom gesturing as she lectures. The backs of three students' heads (red, blonde, and brown hair) are visible in the foreground. Her speech bubble reads: "How do I remember? I just look at my hand, and there's five fingers, and that's about the value of pi." The caption beneath reads: "Physics professors shouldn't teach geometry." The joke: she treats five (the number of fingers on one hand) as a rough approximation of pi, an absurdly loose physicist-style estimate. Votey (a rough black-and-white sketch aftercomic): an off-panel voice asks, "How many fingers are on your hand?" and a sketched person replies, "About ten?" — escalating the gag by approximating ten (both hands' worth) as the count for one hand.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.