2007-07-29
Original: 2007-07-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (decorative header): SECRETARY TIPS
BOSS ANNOYING YOU? FIGHT BACK BY TAKING LOW QUALITY PHONE MESSAGES
Panel (single): A secretary (a woman with long hair pulled back, in a green top) sits holding a notepad and pen. An older balding man (the boss) sits across from her, his back partly to the viewer.
Secretary: "Oh, and the morgue called. Something about \"blazing inferno\" and \"all your loved ones.\""
Votey:
A close-up of the secretary's notepad, showing the sloppy, fragmentary message she actually wrote down.
Note text: TERMINAL SOMETHING SOMETHING PANCREAS
\"HORRIBLE DEATH\" -> \"ANY MOMENT NOW\"
BOSS ANNOYING YOU? FIGHT BACK BY TAKING LOW QUALITY PHONE MESSAGES
Panel (single): A secretary (a woman with long hair pulled back, in a green top) sits holding a notepad and pen. An older balding man (the boss) sits across from her, his back partly to the viewer.
Secretary: "Oh, and the morgue called. Something about \"blazing inferno\" and \"all your loved ones.\""
Votey:
A close-up of the secretary's notepad, showing the sloppy, fragmentary message she actually wrote down.
Note text: TERMINAL SOMETHING SOMETHING PANCREAS
\"HORRIBLE DEATH\" -> \"ANY MOMENT NOW\"
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic with a yellow header banner reading \"SECRETARY TIPS: BOSS ANNOYING YOU? FIGHT BACK BY TAKING LOW QUALITY PHONE MESSAGES.\" In the panel, a woman secretary in a green top sits with a notepad and pen, casually relaying a message to her older, balding boss who sits across from her. She says: \"Oh, and the morgue called. Something about 'blazing inferno' and 'all your loved ones.'\" The joke is that she's passing along an alarming, garbled message with total nonchalance as petty revenge. The votey (bonus panel) shows a close-up of her actual handwritten notepad, full of useless fragments: \"TERMINAL SOMETHING SOMETHING PANCREAS\" and arrows pointing to \"HORRIBLE DEATH\" and \"ANY MOMENT NOW\" — confirming just how low-quality and unhelpful the message really is.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.