Weird Parabola
A student frowns at a cubic graph, calling it a weird parabola; a friend replies that it isn't one at all.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-04-03-weird-parabola/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A (holding graph): "This graph of y = x³ is making a really weird parabola."
B: "Yes... in much the same sense that panda bears make really weird cats."