2009-02-17
Original: 2009-02-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man with glasses, wearing a suit, stands at a lectern addressing an audience. A diagram of a human brain labeled "Fig. 1" with pointer lines hangs on the wall behind him.
Man: "WELCOME, DISTINGUISHED NEUROLOGISTS. YOU KNOW, MY GRANNY USED TO SAY 'A MIND IS A FUNNY THING. IT CONSUMES LIKE A FROG, BUT IT GROWS LIKE A PUPPY DOG'S CLAWS.'"
Caption (below panel): Professor Steward lectured on the importance of curing senility.
Votey:
A rough, sketchy black-and-white drawing of the same man seen from behind, standing at the lectern, gesturing toward the audience. No text.
A balding man with glasses, wearing a suit, stands at a lectern addressing an audience. A diagram of a human brain labeled "Fig. 1" with pointer lines hangs on the wall behind him.
Man: "WELCOME, DISTINGUISHED NEUROLOGISTS. YOU KNOW, MY GRANNY USED TO SAY 'A MIND IS A FUNNY THING. IT CONSUMES LIKE A FROG, BUT IT GROWS LIKE A PUPPY DOG'S CLAWS.'"
Caption (below panel): Professor Steward lectured on the importance of curing senility.
Votey:
A rough, sketchy black-and-white drawing of the same man seen from behind, standing at the lectern, gesturing toward the audience. No text.
Alt text
A balding man in a suit and glasses stands at a lectern speaking to an audience, with a labeled brain diagram ("Fig. 1") on the wall behind him. He says: "Welcome, distinguished neurologists. You know, my granny used to say 'A mind is a funny thing. It consumes like a frog, but it grows like a puppy dog's claws.'" The caption below reads: "Professor Steward lectured on the importance of curing senility." The joke: his folksy "granny" saying is complete nonsense, implying the professor himself is senile while supposedly lecturing on curing senility. The votey is a rough sketch of the same man from behind at his lectern, gesturing to the crowd, with no text.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.