2014-02-16
Original: 2014-02-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel, two children arguing against a red background):
First child (a boy with black hair and a mustache-like shadow, angry, pointing): "YOU STINK!"
First child: "YOU STINK TIMES INFINITY!"
Second child (a child with brown hair, seen from behind, faltering): "YOU... YOU... BUT THERE'S NOTHING LARGER THAN THAT... IS THERE?"
Caption (below panel): A formative day for Georg Cantor.
Votey:
The brown-haired child's face, now drawn in simple black-and-white line art, regains confidence and retorts: "YOU'RE UNCOUNTABLY SMELLY!"
First child (a boy with black hair and a mustache-like shadow, angry, pointing): "YOU STINK!"
First child: "YOU STINK TIMES INFINITY!"
Second child (a child with brown hair, seen from behind, faltering): "YOU... YOU... BUT THERE'S NOTHING LARGER THAN THAT... IS THERE?"
Caption (below panel): A formative day for Georg Cantor.
Votey:
The brown-haired child's face, now drawn in simple black-and-white line art, regains confidence and retorts: "YOU'RE UNCOUNTABLY SMELLY!"
Alt text
A single-panel comic against a deep red background showing two cartoon children in a schoolyard insult fight. On the left, a black-haired boy with an angry scowl points and shouts, "YOU STINK!" and "YOU STINK TIMES INFINITY!" The brown-haired child on the right, seen from behind, falters and replies, "YOU... YOU... BUT THERE'S NOTHING LARGER THAN THAT... IS THERE?" A caption beneath reads, "A formative day for Georg Cantor." The joke imagines mathematician Cantor, founder of the theory of infinite sets, as a child first grappling with the idea of sizes of infinity. In the votey aftercomic, drawn in simple black-and-white line art, the brown-haired child's face returns with a confident, smug expression and delivers the comeback: "YOU'RE UNCOUNTABLY SMELLY!" -- a reference to uncountable infinities being strictly larger than countable ones.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.