Comic #2932: 2013-05-28
Description
Here is the transcription of the text in the comic:
Panel 1:
- Person 1: "Professor, I want to talk to you about your books."
- Person 2: "In the past 50 years, you've written 37. I wrote a program that scanned the books for usage of the words, 'clearly,' 'obv' and 'of course.'"
Panel 2:
- Person 1: "You'll note that usage is climbing at an exponential rate."
- (Graph showing an upward trend labeled "usage" over "time.")
Panel 3:
- Person 1: "If we project the trend, six books from now, your writing will be nothing but self-righteous assertions with no basis in fact or in any theory created in the last 30 years."
- Person 2: "So, your question is…"
Panel 4:
- Person 1: "Is it great being an emeritus professor?"
- Person 2: "Clearly."