2007-07-22
Original: 2007-07-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption: DEBATE STRATEGY: SURPRISE YOUR OPPONENTS WITH AN UNEXPECTED STANCE
A blonde woman with glasses and a red collared shirt sits at a debate table, gesturing. Across from her sits a dark-haired man in a yellow shirt with his hand thoughtfully at his chin. In the foreground, seen from behind, is a third person with brown hair in a blue shirt.
Blonde woman: ABORTION.
Man in yellow shirt: INEFFICIENT?
Votey:
A simply-drawn face with a flat, unamused expression speaks.
Speaker: Racism.
Speaker: Hard to spell?
A blonde woman with glasses and a red collared shirt sits at a debate table, gesturing. Across from her sits a dark-haired man in a yellow shirt with his hand thoughtfully at his chin. In the foreground, seen from behind, is a third person with brown hair in a blue shirt.
Blonde woman: ABORTION.
Man in yellow shirt: INEFFICIENT?
Votey:
A simply-drawn face with a flat, unamused expression speaks.
Speaker: Racism.
Speaker: Hard to spell?
Alt text
A four-color SMBC comic. Top yellow caption reads: "DEBATE STRATEGY: SURPRISE YOUR OPPONENTS WITH AN UNEXPECTED STANCE." At a debate table, a blonde woman in glasses and a red shirt gestures and says only "ABORTION." A man in a yellow shirt opposite her, hand on chin, responds quizzically, "INEFFICIENT?" — taking the bizarrely incomplete one-word position seriously. A third person watches from behind in the foreground. The joke: the unexpected stance is so minimal it forces the opponent to guess at what argument is even being made. Votey (black-and-white doodle aftercomic): a flat-faced character deadpans "Racism." and the reply bubble offers another absurd objection: "Hard to spell?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.