Are You Living?
A questioner tries to pin down someone who answers 'no' to everything, including whether they always say no.
Drawn for an essay by James Propp.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-10-10-are-you-living/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Are you living?" B: "No." A: "Nonliving?" B: "No." A: "Semiliving?" B: "No." A: "Just saying 'no' to whatever I ask you?" B: "…no?" A: "Drat. I thought I had you there."