2012-11-16
Original: 2012-11-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with gray hair and glasses (the principal/administrator) stands at a desk, gesturing at a computer monitor. On the monitor is a photograph of a man giving the finger. A man (the teacher) sits facing the screen.
Woman: "It's not what it looks like?! Every student in your 2pm math class sent me a photograph of you giving all of them the finger!"
Panel 2:
Banner: "EARLIER..."
A classroom scene. The teacher stands at a chalkboard with binary digits written on it, raising one hand. Several students are seated facing him.
Teacher: "Mr. Johnson! If each of your five fingers represents a binary digit, how would you represent a four?"
Votey:
A large red number "4".
A woman with gray hair and glasses (the principal/administrator) stands at a desk, gesturing at a computer monitor. On the monitor is a photograph of a man giving the finger. A man (the teacher) sits facing the screen.
Woman: "It's not what it looks like?! Every student in your 2pm math class sent me a photograph of you giving all of them the finger!"
Panel 2:
Banner: "EARLIER..."
A classroom scene. The teacher stands at a chalkboard with binary digits written on it, raising one hand. Several students are seated facing him.
Teacher: "Mr. Johnson! If each of your five fingers represents a binary digit, how would you represent a four?"
Votey:
A large red number "4".
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A gray-haired woman with glasses stands at a desk gesturing toward a computer monitor that displays a photo of a man giving the middle finger. A male teacher sits facing the screen. She says: "It's not what it looks like?! Every student in your 2pm math class sent me a photograph of you giving all of them the finger!" Panel 2, labeled "EARLIER...": A classroom where the same teacher stands at a chalkboard (covered in binary digits) raising a hand, addressing seated students. He asks: "Mr. Johnson! If each of your five fingers represents a binary digit, how would you represent a four?" The joke: representing the number four in binary on five fingers (00100) means extending only the middle finger, so an entire class photographed the teacher seemingly flipping them off. The votey (aftercomic) is a large red number "4", reinforcing the binary-finger answer.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.