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Original: one-letter on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Caption (top banner): FUN FACT: IT'S POSSIBLE TO MAKE A PANTSLESS MATHEMATICIAN CRY USING A SINGLE LETTER.

Panel 1: Two pantsless people stand facing each other in a bedroom. A bearded person with long gray hair, glasses, and a yellow t-shirt (seen from behind, bare-bottomed) faces a woman with short reddish hair, glasses, and a red bikini top and bottom. A speech bubble points toward the bearded person, containing only the Greek letter: ε (epsilon).
Woman (reacting, wide-eyed and dismayed): [no words]

Votey:
Handwritten text centered in a plain box: Sorry.

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A two-part SMBC comic. The main panel has a yellow caption banner reading: "FUN FACT: IT'S POSSIBLE TO MAKE A PANTSLESS MATHEMATICIAN CRY USING A SINGLE LETTER." Below, in a bedroom, two pantsless people face each other: a long-haired, bearded mathematician in a yellow t-shirt (shown from behind, bare-bottomed) and a woman in a red bikini who looks dismayed. A speech bubble aimed at the mathematician contains only the Greek letter ε (epsilon) — the symbol used in math for an arbitrarily small quantity, here implying a cutting comment about his small endowment. The votey (aftercomic) is a plain box with a single handwritten word: "Sorry."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.