2008-05-14
Original: 2008-05-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
An angelic figure (long white hair, wings, holding a checklist with items reading "QUARKS" and "ELEPHANTS") speaks to a glowing yellow sun-like figure representing God.
Angel: Okay, God, we finished building the universe you designed, elegant in its simplicity, sublime in its complexity.
God (the yellow sun figure): Good, good. Next, we wait 14 billion years, then tell some desert people how to behave.
Votey:
The sun-like God figure beams down rays onto a crowd of small people standing below before a mountainous landscape.
God: No wool and linen at the same time!*
Footnote: *Leviticus 19:19
An angelic figure (long white hair, wings, holding a checklist with items reading "QUARKS" and "ELEPHANTS") speaks to a glowing yellow sun-like figure representing God.
Angel: Okay, God, we finished building the universe you designed, elegant in its simplicity, sublime in its complexity.
God (the yellow sun figure): Good, good. Next, we wait 14 billion years, then tell some desert people how to behave.
Votey:
The sun-like God figure beams down rays onto a crowd of small people standing below before a mountainous landscape.
God: No wool and linen at the same time!*
Footnote: *Leviticus 19:19
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Main panel: a white-haired winged angel holding a checklist (visible items: "QUARKS" and "ELEPHANTS") reports to God, depicted as a large glowing yellow sun. The angel says, "Okay, God, we finished building the universe you designed, elegant in its simplicity, sublime in its complexity." God replies, "Good, good. Next, we wait 14 billion years, then tell some desert people how to behave." Votey panel: the sun-God beams rays down onto a small crowd of people before some mountains, proclaiming, "No wool and linen at the same time!" A footnote cites Leviticus 19:19. The joke contrasts the grandeur of creating the entire cosmos with the pettiness of an arbitrary clothing rule from scripture.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.