Back in the 1960’s, I was the math freak in my school. It is actually not direct proportion but inverse proportion. (When one goes up, the other goes down.) Close proximity, no tolerance. At a distance (and in the presence of his macho coach), a lot of tolerance.
UPDATE: It now turns out that there is a type of sour cream called dairy squeeze, but I think what the cartoonists meant was what I said above.