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Original: logic on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1 (header text):
QUESTION: WHAT DID THE LOGICIAN SAY TO THE MAN WHO WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING?

[A man with red/orange hair is shown being struck by lightning, screaming, surrounded by a yellow burst.]

Panel 2 (header text):
ANSWER:

Logician (a bespectacled man in a suit): RELAX, THE ODDS OF DYING FROM THIS ARE LESS THAN THE ODDS OF GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

[The lightning-struck man stands beside him, hair singed and standing on end, looking shocked and disheveled.]

Votey:
Lightning-struck man: WHAT'RE THE ODDS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE?!
Logician: PRECISELY 1.

Alt text

A two-panel SMBC comic framed as a question and answer. Panel one header: "Question: What did the logician say to the man who was struck by lightning?" It shows a red-haired man screaming inside a burst of yellow lightning. Panel two header: "Answer:" A calm bespectacled logician in a suit tells the singed, frazzled-haired victim beside him, "Relax, the odds of dying from this are less than the odds of getting struck by lightning." Votey (aftercomic): The disheveled victim, now drawn with a furious face, snaps, "What're the odds you're an asshole?!" The logician deadpans, "Precisely 1."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.