Help me with this punchline, please?

[Malc]

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?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

"Way to go, Einstein!"

[Malc]

I knew I should have posted this on the CCGB forum.

[The Peepmaster]

Clinically proven...

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

Scientific Fact...

As tested on Robots...

[Diane CBPFC]

I think it is funny as it is.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

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.

[The Peepmaster]

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.

[peter]

How about QED in latin

[Roger Kettle]

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.

[Max]

Let the reader do the hard work.....

Secretary. Well you got the answer Einstein..  Now what was the question?

[Malc]

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.

[Malc]

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.

[Fyodor]

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.

[Fyodor]

Did I just click on "Post"? Dammit!

[Roger Kettle]

I quite liked that, Fy!