2005-05-08
Original: 2005-05-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main comic):
A balding man sits on the grass in a cemetery, leaning against a headstone, holding a beer bottle aloft toward it. The headstone reads: "FRED / 1939 - 2002".
Man: "WELL FRED, WE SURE HAD A LOT OF GREAT TIMES, DIDN'T WE?"
Caption below the comic:
"Fred and I love finding gravestones with our names on them and reminiscing about as if one of us were dead."
"Well, that is we did, until Fred passed away back in 2002."
Votey:
A simply drawn bearded face looking down, with a speech bubble.
Speech bubble: "CAPTION LENGTH IS THE SOUL OF WIT."
A balding man sits on the grass in a cemetery, leaning against a headstone, holding a beer bottle aloft toward it. The headstone reads: "FRED / 1939 - 2002".
Man: "WELL FRED, WE SURE HAD A LOT OF GREAT TIMES, DIDN'T WE?"
Caption below the comic:
"Fred and I love finding gravestones with our names on them and reminiscing about as if one of us were dead."
"Well, that is we did, until Fred passed away back in 2002."
Votey:
A simply drawn bearded face looking down, with a speech bubble.
Speech bubble: "CAPTION LENGTH IS THE SOUL OF WIT."
Alt text
A balding man sits on the grass in a graveyard, leaning casually against a headstone and raising a beer bottle in a toast toward it. The headstone reads "FRED, 1939 - 2002." He says, "Well Fred, we sure had a lot of great times, didn't we?" A caption beneath the comic explains: "Fred and I love finding gravestones with our names on them and reminiscing about as if one of us were dead. Well, that is we did, until Fred passed away back in 2002." The joke is the rambling, awkwardly worded caption that undercuts the touching scene. Votey: a loosely sketched bearded face looks downward, saying in a speech bubble, "Caption length is the soul of wit" - a play on "brevity is the soul of wit," mocking the comic's overlong caption.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.