2012-10-13
Original: 2012-10-13 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A police officer in sunglasses and a cap leans toward a car window. Inside the car, a man in sunglasses and a yellow shirt holds up a Klein-bottle-shaped glass container of liquor.
Driver: NOPE. THIS IS A NON-ORIENTABLE SURFACE OF BOURBON. IT HAS NO CLEARLY DEFINED INNER AREA.
Officer: STEP OUT OF THE CAR, SIR.
Caption below the comic:
Research Day One:
Klein Bottle: 0
Open Container Law: 1
Votey:
The officer and the driver, drawn in black-and-white.
Officer: YOU HIT THREE KIDS.
Driver: THREE TOROIDS.
A police officer in sunglasses and a cap leans toward a car window. Inside the car, a man in sunglasses and a yellow shirt holds up a Klein-bottle-shaped glass container of liquor.
Driver: NOPE. THIS IS A NON-ORIENTABLE SURFACE OF BOURBON. IT HAS NO CLEARLY DEFINED INNER AREA.
Officer: STEP OUT OF THE CAR, SIR.
Caption below the comic:
Research Day One:
Klein Bottle: 0
Open Container Law: 1
Votey:
The officer and the driver, drawn in black-and-white.
Officer: YOU HIT THREE KIDS.
Driver: THREE TOROIDS.
Alt text
A police officer in sunglasses leans down to a car window where a man in sunglasses and a yellow shirt holds up a glass shaped like a Klein bottle (a self-intersecting bottle with no distinct inside or outside) filled with bourbon. The driver says, "Nope. This is a non-orientable surface of bourbon. It has no clearly defined inner area" — a topology pun to dodge the open-container law. The officer replies, "Step out of the car, sir." A caption tallies the score: "Research Day One: Klein Bottle: 0, Open Container Law: 1." In the black-and-white votey, the officer says, "You hit three kids," and the driver, still committed to the math bit, replies, "Three toroids" (a torus being a donut-shaped surface).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.