2008-08-03
Original: 2008-08-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A single-panel hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: SPECIALNESS OF INDIVIDUALS
X-axis label: WORLD POPULATION
The curve starts very high on the left and drops steeply, leveling off into a long flat tail along the bottom toward the right.
Two arrows point down to nearly the same spot at the far right end of the flat tail, very close to zero.
Arrow label (left): YOU
Arrow label (right): YOU NEXT YEAR
Votey:
Label at top: DETAIL OF GRAPH:
A zoomed-in detail of the flat tail of the curve. The line dips down to a low point, then spikes sharply up before continuing on at a slightly higher, gently declining level.
An arrow points to the sharp upward spike.
Arrow label: MANGLED IN CAR WRECK
Y-axis label: SPECIALNESS OF INDIVIDUALS
X-axis label: WORLD POPULATION
The curve starts very high on the left and drops steeply, leveling off into a long flat tail along the bottom toward the right.
Two arrows point down to nearly the same spot at the far right end of the flat tail, very close to zero.
Arrow label (left): YOU
Arrow label (right): YOU NEXT YEAR
Votey:
Label at top: DETAIL OF GRAPH:
A zoomed-in detail of the flat tail of the curve. The line dips down to a low point, then spikes sharply up before continuing on at a slightly higher, gently declining level.
An arrow points to the sharp upward spike.
Arrow label: MANGLED IN CAR WRECK
Alt text
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled 'Specialness of Individuals' and the horizontal axis is labeled 'World Population.' The curve starts extremely high on the left and plunges steeply downward, flattening into a long near-zero tail stretching to the right. Two arrows both point to almost the same spot far out on the flat tail, near zero: one labeled 'You' and the other, just beside it, labeled 'You Next Year' — the joke being that as world population grows, any individual's specialness keeps shrinking toward nothing. Votey (aftercomic): titled 'Detail of Graph:', it zooms into the flat tail of the curve. The line dips to a low point, then jumps up in a sharp spike before continuing on. An arrow points to the spike, labeled 'Mangled in Car Wreck' — implying that being mangled in a car wreck is the one thing that briefly makes you more special.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.