It's obvious

[Barbara Need]

Is it possibly a Far Side cartoon? I know he had a few like that.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Chicago

On 12 Aug 2008, at 12:36, Laurence Horn wrote:

> At 9:14 AM -0700 8/12/08, Dave Wilton wrote:
>> I've just searched the New Yorker DVDs through 2005 (I don't have
>> the later
>> ones.) for cartoons with captions or keywords "math," "obvious," and
>> "blackboard."
>>
>> It appears that there is a long tradition of cartoons depicting
>> professors
>> contemplating complex mathematical equations on a blackboard.
>
> 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.
>
> (The "that and 15c will get you a ride on the I.R.T." one certainly
> takes me back--my daughter, now living in Brooklyn and a subway
> regular, had never heard of the I.R.T./IND/B.M.T., and as for a 15c
> fare...)
>
> LH

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