Scooped
A colleague breaks the news that someone published the same result first with an ice-cream pun.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-19-scooped/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Hey, go check out the new journal articles, and then I'll take you out for ice cream." B: "Okay. Why ice cream?" A: "Because you just got scooped!"
[A cheerful; B devastated]
[Caption] "The results of my study 'Is bad news best broken by pun?' were sadly inconclusive."