Volcano Snot
A bored student on a geology trip becomes interested once igneous rock is described as 'flaming snot of a volcano.'
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-03-18-volcano-snot/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "What a stupid field trip. Nothing could be more boring than rocks." B: "True. Like, an igneous rock is just the flaming snot of a volcano, cooled and congealed."
[A pauses] A: "Eww!" [now fascinated by the rock]