Circular Plates
A customer orders 'circular' plates and receives literal circles (thin rings) instead of discs.
Drawn for Art of Problem Solving (AoPS).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-05-01-circular-plates/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Customer: "I ordered the circular dinner plates. But what came were these microscopically thin rings." Clerk: "Yes? And the problem is…?" Customer: "THE PROBLEM IS I CAN'T EAT OFF OF THESE DUMB RINGS" Clerk: "Ah, I see! You didn't want the circular plates, you wanted the disc-shaped plates."