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A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A smiling man in glasses tells a woman, "Great news! Your obscure mathematical theorems have applications!" In the background the woman throws her arms up and screams "Nooooooo!" in horror. Panel 2: The man finishes, "To string theory." Panel 3: The woman, now relieved, hugs him and says "Oh thank god thank god you scared me, wow" — the joke being that a pure mathematician would rather her work have NO real-world use than have it be merely applicable to string theory. Votey: A close-up of the woman's face as she explains, "I thought for a second there you were going to say cancer" — implying curing cancer would be an even more horrifying "application" than string theory.