2008-02-06
Original: 2008-02-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: LIFE TIP: GRAMMAR DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER
Panel 1:
A bearded man with reddish hair (green shirt) hands a folded note or paper to a balding man wearing glasses (blue shirt).
Bearded man: "Okay. Fine. Here is the location at which the bomb will explode and kill your family."
Votey:
The balding man with glasses, hand on his chin, looks irritated/exasperated.
Balding man: "'Please help' is not a complete sentence!"
Panel 1:
A bearded man with reddish hair (green shirt) hands a folded note or paper to a balding man wearing glasses (blue shirt).
Bearded man: "Okay. Fine. Here is the location at which the bomb will explode and kill your family."
Votey:
The balding man with glasses, hand on his chin, looks irritated/exasperated.
Balding man: "'Please help' is not a complete sentence!"
Alt text
A two-part comic mocking grammar pedantry. A yellow banner reads "LIFE TIP: GRAMMAR DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER." In the main panel, a bearded man in a green shirt hands a note to a balding, bespectacled man in a blue shirt and says, exasperated, "Okay. Fine. Here is the location at which the bomb will explode and kill your family" — carefully avoiding ending the sentence with a preposition. In the votey (aftercomic), the bespectacled man, hand on chin and clearly the grammar stickler, snaps back: "'Please help' is not a complete sentence!" — revealing he refused to act on the original plea until it was grammatically corrected, even with his family's life at stake.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.