2006-05-31
Original: 2006-05-31 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A boy standing at a podium on a stage, with a microphone, addressing a contestant. Speaker (boy at podium): "TACITURN: S-N-I-P-E-R. TACITURN."
The contestant, a man in a green shirt, stands center stage with his finger to his lips, looking thoughtful/confused. Two other children (a boy and a girl) wait in line at the left.
Caption (below the panel): Billy wins the spelling bee.
Votey:
Handwritten text: "I swear this comic was less horrifying in 2006."
A boy standing at a podium on a stage, with a microphone, addressing a contestant. Speaker (boy at podium): "TACITURN: S-N-I-P-E-R. TACITURN."
The contestant, a man in a green shirt, stands center stage with his finger to his lips, looking thoughtful/confused. Two other children (a boy and a girl) wait in line at the left.
Caption (below the panel): Billy wins the spelling bee.
Votey:
Handwritten text: "I swear this comic was less horrifying in 2006."
Alt text
A single-panel comic set at a spelling bee on a stage. A red-haired boy stands at a podium with a microphone and announces the word to spell: "TACITURN: S-N-I-P-E-R. TACITURN." The contestant, a man in a green shirt, stands center stage with his finger thoughtfully on his lips, looking puzzled, while two children wait in line at the left. A caption below reads: "Billy wins the spelling bee." The joke is that the word given is "taciturn" but it is spelled out as "sniper" — implying the announced answer is a coded message. Votey (handwritten aftercomic): "I swear this comic was less horrifying in 2006."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.