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A six-panel SMBC comic. A bald man with glasses tells a red-haired woman, "I study semi-primes"; when she says "Huh?" he explains they're "numbers that are the product of exactly two factors." Excited, she asks if you can have three factors and call them "semidemiprimes," or four and call them "semidemihemiprimes." He says they're actually called K-almost primes (a 12-almost prime has 12 factors). She gushes that this is the greatest use of the word 'almost' anywhere, realizes prime numbers are "1-almost primes," and then 1 could be a "0-almost prime." Growing manic and gesturing, she declares she can use this in real life: "I am 3-almost rich and famous. I am 6-almost the president. 8-almost the sexiest butt in the nation!" Meanwhile the man, only half-heard in the background, has been saying "Don't you dare find applications for my work." In the final panel she closes her eyes, raises her hands sheepishly, and says, "Sorry, sorry, that was too far." Votey (a small extra panel): a handwritten proposal that instead of saying "2-almost" you say "pretty much," for "3-almost" you say "pretty much," for "4-almost" you say "preeetty much," and so on.