2008-03-22
Original: 2008-03-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner (yellow): GRAVESTONE TIPS: STICK WITH ONE LINE
Panel: A gravestone sits on a grassy hillside under a purple sky, with a small smiley-face sun in the corner. The inscription on the gravestone reads:
PHYLLIS W.
1921 - 2008
BELOVED WIFE.
REASONABLY WELL-LIKED MOTHER.
FAVORABLY RATED BY 5 OF 8 GRANDCHILDREN ($1.5)
Votey:
A hand-drawn gravestone with the inscription:
ZACH WEINER
(NOT THE XKCD GUY. HE'S IN THE HUGE MAUSOLEUM ON THE HILL)
Panel: A gravestone sits on a grassy hillside under a purple sky, with a small smiley-face sun in the corner. The inscription on the gravestone reads:
PHYLLIS W.
1921 - 2008
BELOVED WIFE.
REASONABLY WELL-LIKED MOTHER.
FAVORABLY RATED BY 5 OF 8 GRANDCHILDREN ($1.5)
Votey:
A hand-drawn gravestone with the inscription:
ZACH WEINER
(NOT THE XKCD GUY. HE'S IN THE HUGE MAUSOLEUM ON THE HILL)
Alt text
Title banner reads "GRAVESTONE TIPS: STICK WITH ONE LINE." A cartoon gravestone stands on a green hillside under a purple sky, with a tiny smiley-face sun in the corner. Its epitaph starts dignified and decays into qualified faint praise: "PHYLLIS W. 1921-2008. BELOVED WIFE. REASONABLY WELL-LIKED MOTHER. FAVORABLY RATED BY 5 OF 8 GRANDCHILDREN ($1.5)." The joke is that each subsequent line of the epitaph grows more lukewarm and statistical, like product review ratings. Votey: A hand-drawn gravestone reading "ZACH WEINER (NOT THE XKCD GUY. HE'S IN THE HUGE MAUSOLEUM ON THE HILL)," a self-deprecating jab comparing the cartoonist's modest grave to xkcd creator Randall Munroe's imagined grand mausoleum.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.