I received an email from Academia.org stating that they could turn a research paper which they suggested into a cartoon. Well, what could I do but give it a try?

Considering that the cartoon has only 4 panels to it, this isn’t so terrible. The title of the paper did have some ordinary vocabulary in it like: the, of, and pure. Isn’t that enough for everyone? Crimony!

In truth this “service” is meant to tickle my funny bone enough to lower my cheapskate defenses, hopefully causing me to subscribe to their service. It didn’t work, this time.

The “facile synthesis machine” is up there with the “Wayback Machine” in terms of wishful thinking.