Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Always One-Upping Me

2015

Beside the graph of y = x + 1, a sulking X complains that Y is always one-upping it.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015-01-01-always-one-upping-me/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Graph of y = x + 1]

X: "I just feel like you're always one-upping me!"

Y: "Sigh…"

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