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2005-11-15

Original: 2005-11-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Setting: a forest. A nude man (Adam) stands with his back to the viewer, hand to his chin, facing a tree with signs nailed to it. A red heart-shaped apple hangs from a branch above.

Man: "Hmmmm..."

Sign on the tree: "TREEP of sKNOWlEDGE" (the letters P, S, and K are exaggerated/added, making it read like a misspelled "TREE of KNOWLEDGE").

Smaller sign: "DO NOT EAT"

A tiny scrap of sign tacked below: "if you're a jerk!"

From behind a hill on the right, a black serpent's silhouette rises out of red flames, speaking: "GOOOOD... GOOOOD..."

Caption beneath the comic: "The devil's cunning knows no bounds."

Votey:
Close-up of the same man's face, looking distressed.
Man: "Now I sknow I'm snaked."

Alt text

A nude man (Adam) stands with his back to us in a forest, hand on chin, pondering a tree with a red apple. Nailed to the tree, a sign reads "TREEP of sKNOWlEDGE" with extra letters jammed in to corrupt "TREE of KNOWLEDGE." Below it a sign says "DO NOT EAT," and a tiny added scrap reads "if you're a jerk!" A black serpent silhouette rises from red flames on a hill, hissing "GOOOOD... GOOOOD..." Caption: "The devil's cunning knows no bounds" — the devil's whole scheme is sneaking deceptive extra letters and a loophole onto God's signs. Votey: a close-up of the man's worried face saying "Now I sknow I'm snaked," his speech mangled by the serpent's added letters too.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.