base
Original: base on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An older man with a gray beard and a younger woman with dark curly hair stand facing each other.
Off-panel/first speaker: HEY YOU! WHAT'S THE BEST BASE SYSTEM FOR MATH?
Woman: OBVIOUSLY BASE-10.
Bearded man: DAMN RIGHT. GODDAMNED RIGHT.
Caption (below panel): Technically, this works for any base system.
Votey:
(IF YOU AREN'T BEING CONSTANTLY ACCOSTED BY STRANGERS ABOUT BASE SYSTEMS, YOU ARE LIVING IN THE WRONG NEIGHBORHOOD.)
An older man with a gray beard and a younger woman with dark curly hair stand facing each other.
Off-panel/first speaker: HEY YOU! WHAT'S THE BEST BASE SYSTEM FOR MATH?
Woman: OBVIOUSLY BASE-10.
Bearded man: DAMN RIGHT. GODDAMNED RIGHT.
Caption (below panel): Technically, this works for any base system.
Votey:
(IF YOU AREN'T BEING CONSTANTLY ACCOSTED BY STRANGERS ABOUT BASE SYSTEMS, YOU ARE LIVING IN THE WRONG NEIGHBORHOOD.)
Alt text
A single-panel comic. An older man with a gray beard (red shirt) and a younger woman with dark curly hair stand facing each other against a tan background. A voice asks, "HEY YOU! WHAT'S THE BEST BASE SYSTEM FOR MATH?" The woman answers, "OBVIOUSLY BASE-10." The bearded man emphatically agrees, "DAMN RIGHT. GODDAMNED RIGHT." A caption beneath reads: "Technically, this works for any base system." The joke: any base, written in its own notation, is always called "base-10" (e.g., binary calls itself base-10), so the answer is correct no matter which base she actually means. The votey (aftercomic) is hand-lettered text in a wobbly drawn box reading: "(IF YOU AREN'T BEING CONSTANTLY ACCOSTED BY STRANGERS ABOUT BASE SYSTEMS, YOU ARE LIVING IN THE WRONG NEIGHBORHOOD.)"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.