2002-12-26
Original: 2002-12-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Store sign above a shop window reads: "EMILY CHICKENSON"
A woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing an apron, stands in front of the storefront, smiling and pointing upward. She wears a sandwich-board / vertical sign that reads:
"THERE'S A CERTAIN CUT OF THIGH-MEAT- JUST $2.99!"
Caption (below panel): Before her life as a poet, Emily Dickenson had loftier goals.
Votey:
Handwritten in flowing cursive (a parody of an Emily Dickinson poem):
"Wild Night! WILD Night!
Were I with Thee,
Popcorn-Chicken would be
Our Luxury!"
Store sign above a shop window reads: "EMILY CHICKENSON"
A woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing an apron, stands in front of the storefront, smiling and pointing upward. She wears a sandwich-board / vertical sign that reads:
"THERE'S A CERTAIN CUT OF THIGH-MEAT- JUST $2.99!"
Caption (below panel): Before her life as a poet, Emily Dickenson had loftier goals.
Votey:
Handwritten in flowing cursive (a parody of an Emily Dickinson poem):
"Wild Night! WILD Night!
Were I with Thee,
Popcorn-Chicken would be
Our Luxury!"
Alt text
An SMBC comic. In the single main panel, a smiling dark-haired woman in an apron stands outside a shop, pointing up at the storefront sign that reads "EMILY CHICKENSON" (a pun on Emily Dickinson). She wears a vertical sandwich-board advertising sign that reads "THERE'S A CERTAIN CUT OF THIGH-MEAT - JUST $2.99!" The caption beneath reads: "Before her life as a poet, Emily Dickenson had loftier goals." The joke imagines poet Emily Dickinson as having once run a fried-chicken shop. The votey (bonus panel) shows a parody of one of her poems written in elegant cursive: "Wild Night! WILD Night! / Were I with Thee, / Popcorn-Chicken would be / Our Luxury!" — a riff on Dickinson's poem "Wild Nights" with chicken substituted in.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.