2006-07-12
Original: 2006-07-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel (single image):
Setting: A dusty Old West town street at sunset, with buildings labeled "SALOON" and "LIVERY." Cacti are visible in the distance.
In the foreground, seen from behind, a man with orange/red hair holds a pen and a sheet of paper, as if taking notes or sketching the scene.
In the middle ground, an older man in a brown suit gestures toward a younger gunslinger in a cowboy hat and blue clothing who stands ready to draw his gun.
Gunslinger (speech bubble): "DRAW!"
Older man (speech bubble): "HEH HEH!"
Caption below the panel:
"We all had a good laugh at McGuffrey's pun.
I mean, sure, we would've laughed harder if we hadn't figured out the joke while picking through blood and chunks of brain, but deep down, I'm pretty sure this is what he would've wanted. Ooh look! There's a gold tooth under this picture of his wife and kids!"
Votey:
A hand-drawn graph with axes labeled "brevity" (vertical / y-axis) and "wit" (horizontal / x-axis). A thick orange line starts high on the left, slopes downward to a low point near the bottom, then curves sharply upward into an arrow at the far right.
Setting: A dusty Old West town street at sunset, with buildings labeled "SALOON" and "LIVERY." Cacti are visible in the distance.
In the foreground, seen from behind, a man with orange/red hair holds a pen and a sheet of paper, as if taking notes or sketching the scene.
In the middle ground, an older man in a brown suit gestures toward a younger gunslinger in a cowboy hat and blue clothing who stands ready to draw his gun.
Gunslinger (speech bubble): "DRAW!"
Older man (speech bubble): "HEH HEH!"
Caption below the panel:
"We all had a good laugh at McGuffrey's pun.
I mean, sure, we would've laughed harder if we hadn't figured out the joke while picking through blood and chunks of brain, but deep down, I'm pretty sure this is what he would've wanted. Ooh look! There's a gold tooth under this picture of his wife and kids!"
Votey:
A hand-drawn graph with axes labeled "brevity" (vertical / y-axis) and "wit" (horizontal / x-axis). A thick orange line starts high on the left, slopes downward to a low point near the bottom, then curves sharply upward into an arrow at the far right.
Alt text
An Old West town street at dusk, with buildings marked SALOON and LIVERY and cacti in the distance. In the foreground, seen from behind, a red-haired man holds a pen and paper, taking notes on the scene. In the middle ground, an older man in a brown suit gestures toward a younger gunslinger in a cowboy hat who is poised to draw his weapon. The gunslinger shouts "DRAW!" while the older man chuckles "HEH HEH!" The caption reads: "We all had a good laugh at McGuffrey's pun. I mean, sure, we would've laughed harder if we hadn't figured out the joke while picking through blood and chunks of brain, but deep down, I'm pretty sure this is what he would've wanted. Ooh look! There's a gold tooth under this picture of his wife and kids!" The dark joke: a deadly duel was provoked by a groan-worthy pun ("draw"), and the narrator callously loots the corpse. Votey: a hand-drawn graph with the vertical axis labeled "brevity" and the horizontal axis labeled "wit." A thick orange line starts high, slopes down to a low point, then shoots sharply upward into an arrow at the far right, suggesting that wit and brevity are inversely related until extreme wit suddenly demands extreme brevity again.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.