2008-01-14
Original: 2008-01-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (yellow banner above the panel): GIVING A BUSINESS PRESENTATION? MAKE SURE TO FOCUS ON THE POSITIVES
Panel: A businessman standing at the head of a conference table, pointing with a pointer at a flip-chart/poster labeled "PROFITS" that shows a line graph trending sharply downward.
Presenter: WE HAVE A CHART!
Two seated coworkers (an older balding man and another person seen from behind) watch from the table, which has papers laid out on it.
Votey:
Label above: NEXT WEEK
The presenter (or a similar man) stands beside another poster, this one labeled "NUMBER OF CHARTS," showing a line graph that also trends downward.
Panel: A businessman standing at the head of a conference table, pointing with a pointer at a flip-chart/poster labeled "PROFITS" that shows a line graph trending sharply downward.
Presenter: WE HAVE A CHART!
Two seated coworkers (an older balding man and another person seen from behind) watch from the table, which has papers laid out on it.
Votey:
Label above: NEXT WEEK
The presenter (or a similar man) stands beside another poster, this one labeled "NUMBER OF CHARTS," showing a line graph that also trends downward.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A yellow caption above the panel reads: "Giving a business presentation? Make sure to focus on the positives." In the panel, a businessman stands at the head of a conference table, beaming and pointing a pointer at a poster titled "PROFITS" whose line graph plunges sharply downward. He declares, "We have a chart!" Two coworkers watch silently from the table. The joke: the only positive he can find is the existence of the chart itself, not the disastrous numbers on it. Votey (a small black-and-white follow-up panel): labeled "NEXT WEEK," the man stands beside a new poster titled "NUMBER OF CHARTS," whose line graph is also trending downward, implying even his charts are now declining.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.