a-triangle
Original: a-triangle on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Female presenter (at a podium): Suppose there exists a triangle, ABC.
Off-panel voice (in a large speech bubble): NO!
Panel 2:
Presenter (frustrated, hands raised): I will not! Why do we always let mathematicians get away with this stuff?!
Panel 3:
Angry man in the crowd: Have any of you seen an object made of infinitely thin, perfectly straight line segments?!
Panel 4:
Presenter (pleading): Suppose pixies exist and suppose they all crap purple monkeys!
Crowd member (pointing, shouting): He's a radical empiricist! Seize him!
Panel 5:
Two police officers grab the angry man.
Officer: You're coming with us, pal!
Panel 6:
The arrested man (to the officer): You can't be certain of that!
Votey:
Text (handwritten, above an angry face): Suppose there exists a triangle. DIE!
A cartoonish angry face glares below the text.
Female presenter (at a podium): Suppose there exists a triangle, ABC.
Off-panel voice (in a large speech bubble): NO!
Panel 2:
Presenter (frustrated, hands raised): I will not! Why do we always let mathematicians get away with this stuff?!
Panel 3:
Angry man in the crowd: Have any of you seen an object made of infinitely thin, perfectly straight line segments?!
Panel 4:
Presenter (pleading): Suppose pixies exist and suppose they all crap purple monkeys!
Crowd member (pointing, shouting): He's a radical empiricist! Seize him!
Panel 5:
Two police officers grab the angry man.
Officer: You're coming with us, pal!
Panel 6:
The arrested man (to the officer): You can't be certain of that!
Votey:
Text (handwritten, above an angry face): Suppose there exists a triangle. DIE!
A cartoonish angry face glares below the text.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a woman at a podium says "Suppose there exists a triangle, ABC." A huge speech bubble from off-panel shouts "NO!" Panel 2: the flustered presenter throws up her hands: "I will not! Why do we always let mathematicians get away with this stuff?!" Panel 3: an angry bearded man in the audience demands, "Have any of you seen an object made of infinitely thin, perfectly straight line segments?!" Panel 4: the presenter pleads "Suppose pixies exist and suppose they all crap purple monkeys!" while another crowd member points at the heckler yelling "He's a radical empiricist! Seize him!" Panel 5: two police officers grab the heckler, one saying "You're coming with us, pal!" Panel 6: the arrested man retorts, "You can't be certain of that!" Votey aftercomic: a crudely drawn, scowling angry face with the handwritten caption "Suppose there exists a triangle. DIE!" — the radical empiricist's furious reaction to mathematical abstraction.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.