Everything Sounds Better with Mathematics
A branding tip, 'everything sounds better when called the mathematics of something', followed by eight excuses: culinary topology, the combinatorics of culture, the Fourier analysis of sleep, streaming an asymptote, and more.
Content note: Panel 7 jokes about gossip over who might 'hook up'; panel 8 mentions mono.
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[1] Branding Tip: Everything sounds better when called "the mathematics of" something.
[2] 'Stop playing with your food.' 'Hey, don't hate on my culinary topology!'
[3] 'Did you spend all afternoon making memes again?' 'Hey, meme creation is the combinatorics of culture.'
[4] 'You snored all night.' 'Well, snoring is the Fourier analysis of sleep.'
[5] 'This stupid video is taking forever to load.' 'Just enjoy the wait. It's like you're streaming an asymptote.'
[6] 'Are you flinging spitballs?' 'If you mean, "Am I exploring the trigonometry of saliva?" then yes.'
[7] 'You're just gossiping about who might hook up this summer.' 'It's not gossip, it's probability theory! You have to explore all the possible permutations.'
[8] 'You're telling me I have mono?' 'Don't think of it like that. Say your body is an exponential model of virus reproduction.'
[9] A patient calls cavities 'point discontinuities of oral hygiene'; the dentist promises filling them is 'a measure-zero set of dental pain'.