Euclidean = Cue Denial
A Euclidean geometer denies non-Euclidean geometry, where a different parallel postulate gives a different world. (An anagram.)
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[Title] "EUCLIDEAN = CUE DENIAL"
"Hogwash! Balderdash! Begone with your false geometry!" "I'm just saying, if you make a different assumption…" [Board: several lines through a point, none meeting a given line]
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-20-euclidean-cue-denial/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)