It's obvious

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/12/2008 01:36 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>None of these are the one we're trying to think of, although the 2004
>one is a sort of play on it.  I remember it as being "(Yes, it's)
>trivial" rather than "obvious", and I'm sure neither "math" nor
>"blackboard" was in the caption, although perhaps a good keyword
>search would pick them up.  But maybe I'm misremembering.

A good keyword search?  I just tried "yes it's trivial" "new yorker"
-- and got "Results 1 - 3 of about 2".  The new math, I guess. (None
of the 3 was relevant to a New Yorker cartoon.)
Joel

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