2009-01-31
Original: 2009-01-31 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A group of men sit crowded together on a lifeboat at sea.
Man with pointing finger: I'm just saying SOMEONE on this lifeboat is holding out!
Another man (gesturing): I don't think you understand statistics.
Caption below the panel: One in ten men is gay.
Votey:
A handwritten letter:
"Dear Zach,
I object to your portrayal of heterosexuals as not understanding mathematics. If you were a braver artist, you would insult more minorities.
Sincerely,
The Internet"
A group of men sit crowded together on a lifeboat at sea.
Man with pointing finger: I'm just saying SOMEONE on this lifeboat is holding out!
Another man (gesturing): I don't think you understand statistics.
Caption below the panel: One in ten men is gay.
Votey:
A handwritten letter:
"Dear Zach,
I object to your portrayal of heterosexuals as not understanding mathematics. If you were a braver artist, you would insult more minorities.
Sincerely,
The Internet"
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing a cramped lifeboat full of men adrift at sea. One man jabs a finger in the air and insists, 'I'm just saying SOMEONE on this lifeboat is holding out!' Another man replies, 'I don't think you understand statistics.' A caption beneath the panel reads, 'One in ten men is gay' — the joke being that the man is treating the statistic as a guarantee that one of the men aboard must be gay and is concealing it. The votey is a handwritten letter that reads: 'Dear Zach, I object to your portrayal of heterosexuals as not understanding mathematics. If you were a braver artist, you would insult more minorities. Sincerely, The Internet' — a mock complaint flipping the joke around to claim the comic insults straight people.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.