ohyesrobot.ordoliberal.com

2007-06-17

Original: 2007-06-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Man (with brown hair, glasses, orange shirt): "I'll sell you my soul if you tell me the shape of the universe."
Red devil (with horns): "Done. It's a quarthex!"

Caption (below panel): Unfortunately, Quarthex doesn't translate to English.

Votey:
Woman (with glasses): "I'll sell you my soul if you tell me what a quarthex is."
Devil: "Two bithexes. KA-CHING!"

Alt text

A man in an orange shirt says to a red, horned devil, "I'll sell you my soul if you tell me the shape of the universe." The devil replies, "Done. It's a quarthex!" A caption underneath reads: "Unfortunately, Quarthex doesn't translate to English." In the votey aftercomic, drawn in black-and-white, a bespectacled woman asks the devil, "I'll sell you my soul if you tell me what a quarthex is." The devil answers, "Two bithexes. KA-CHING!" — defining the made-up unit only in terms of another made-up unit, so the answer is still useless.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.