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Title: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 20, 2007, 01:31:41 PM
I've drawn a cartoon (I have no idea who to sell it to) but that's not the problem.

The cartoon features a science/maths lecturer in front of his students who's just laid out a massive formula on the blackboard, all weird signs and brackets. At the end he has written the lengthy equation's conclusion which is "Bush Is An Asshole".

A stern secretary-type woman stands at the door and she delivers the punchline which is: "Mister Hopkins, the Dean would like to see you".

Is that enough? If you think so, I'll leave it at that.

I was looking for a phrase that scientists use to describe the integrity of successful mathematical formulae, something along the lines of "the science is solid" or the science is cast iron". In other words, they have done their homework thoroughly, and the figures are irrefutable.

I'm looking for that pithy phrase. Anyone?
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on November 20, 2007, 01:54:37 PM
"Way to go, Einstein!"
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 20, 2007, 02:42:18 PM
I knew I should have posted this on the CCGB forum.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 20, 2007, 02:44:24 PM
Clinically proven...

Nine out of ten dentists said their cats preferred it...

Scientific Fact...

As tested on Robots...
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on November 20, 2007, 03:20:37 PM
I think it is funny as it is.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on November 20, 2007, 03:26:44 PM
I knew I should have posted this on the CCGB forum.

I'm in there too, Malc, but of course I'd have given you a much better suggestion there, had you done so.

Diane, you're too nice!

But she's certainly got a point, Malc - I actually thought your description was funny up to the Bush punchline - I didn't see the need for the stern secretary, nor any additional wording at all.

But then I'm generous to a fault, you ungrateful git.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 20, 2007, 04:43:16 PM
I sort of agree with Tranquil. I thought it stood alone, without the secretary at the door and punchline. However, I can also see it as an extended joke with those additions.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: peter on November 20, 2007, 04:46:50 PM
How about QED in latin
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Roger Kettle on November 20, 2007, 06:41:12 PM
Malc, it works fine as it is and it NEEDS the secretary at the door. This shows he's in some kind of official facility (rather than simply being on his own somewhere) and, for me, adds to an already good gag.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Max on November 20, 2007, 08:49:16 PM
Let the reader do the hard work.....

Secretary. Well you got the answer Einstein..  Now what was the question?
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 20, 2007, 10:50:50 PM
OK, I'll post it later, once I've remembered the password to my own blog site. I need to load it there before I can load it here.

QED.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 20, 2007, 11:12:53 PM
One version of the gag I had in my mind was to stage it with no students, and with the lecturer out of the room.
Two professors stand in front of the lecturer's blackboard, on which the long and convoluted equation has been written and the punchline would be something like: "I think professor Peabody needs a break".

I don't just fling these things together you know.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Fyodor on November 21, 2007, 10:06:15 AM
I'd have him being taken, away under restraint, by Security, while declaring, "The science is solid, I tells yah!"
I'm not a cartoonist though - I just fling these things together.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Fyodor on November 21, 2007, 10:07:35 AM
Did I just click on "Post"? Dammit!
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Roger Kettle on November 21, 2007, 06:10:35 PM
I quite liked that, Fy!
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 22, 2007, 04:18:04 AM
Fyodor, I have DRAWN the bloody thing already, I just want to consult you idiots respected colleagues on the punchline.

Yours is the equivalent of the lost motorist who asks a passer-by for directions only to be told "well I wouldn't start from here..."
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on November 22, 2007, 05:25:00 AM
What colour did you do the prof's jacket - I hope it is not too late to change it to blue. I like blue.

Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 22, 2007, 09:07:03 AM
Fyodor, I have DRAWN the bloody thing already, I just want to consult you idiots respected colleagues on the punchline.

Yours is the equivalent of the lost motorist who asks a passer-by for directions only to be told "well I wouldn't start from here..."

That would be a brilliant punchline: "Well, I wouldn't start from here".

Diane - I like blue too, but it's not a funny colour. I'm hoping the jacket was a coat, and the coat was white.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Vulture on November 22, 2007, 09:24:01 AM
What colour did you do the prof's jacket - I hope it is not too late to change it to blue. I like blue.



 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Fyodor on November 23, 2007, 10:31:59 AM
Fyodor, I have DRAWN the bloody thing already, I just want to consult you idiots respected colleagues on the punchline.

Yours is the equivalent of the lost motorist who asks a passer-by for directions only to be told "well I wouldn't start from here..."

Well, I wouldn't.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 24, 2007, 08:30:49 AM
My blog is a little bit knackered at the moment I'm trying to get it sorted, but the cartoon is here.
(http://www.cartoonaustralia.com/malk/PG%20Bush%20a-hole%2018%2011%207.gif)
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Mince on November 24, 2007, 08:36:36 AM
How did he write the equations at the top? He is not tall enough.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on November 24, 2007, 09:19:30 AM
How did he write the equations at the top? He is not tall enough.

His desk is on castors, bone-head. I know, I know...Health & Safety, and all that...


I was wrong, Malky (about the secretary), but I'm glad you left it at that.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Roger Kettle on November 24, 2007, 09:57:15 AM
Excellent.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Fyodor on November 24, 2007, 10:33:27 AM
His maths may be spot on, but his knowledge of anatomy is questionable.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Mince on November 24, 2007, 11:01:09 AM
I love the way the "therefore" follows on from an identity matrix.

It's a bit like saying "1 and therefore my conclusion is . . .".

Apart from that, it's brilliant.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 24, 2007, 11:46:32 AM
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It's a bit like saying "1 and therefore my conclusion is . . .".

Er...didn't you actually start a thread with "1"? Did you therefore not invite us to offer conclusions?

WELL???!!!!

Oh, and that might be the mathematical sign for "therefore", but it might also be some alka selzer bubbles coming out of the glass.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 24, 2007, 07:11:53 PM
I quite like the well-developed girl in the green top.
Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Diane CBPFC on November 24, 2007, 07:32:21 PM
The boy in the front row looks like his head is already full.

Title: Re: Help me with this punchline, please?
Post by: Malc on November 24, 2007, 10:43:50 PM
The class is representational. A blonde, a brunette, a redhead and a macrocephalic.