2009-08-07
Original: 2009-08-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A young red-haired child in a yellow shirt sits up in a purple bed, speaking grandiosely to a woman (his mother) who sits beside him holding what appears to be a folded newspaper or sheet.
Child: "I AM AN EXCELLENT SLEEPER! IT IS NOT UNTO YOU TO DETERMINE WHEN BEDTIME BEGINS OR ENDS. SHOULD YOU CONTINUE TO ASSAULT MY GREATNESS, I SHALL BE FORCED TO RESIGN. I SLEEP FOR MYSELF, MOTHER. AND FOR NOBODY ELSE."
Caption (below panel): "On Tuesday, we switched back from Ayn Rand to Lewis Carroll."
Votey:
Title text: "HOW TO MAKE A STOIC PHILOSOPHY PROF USE AN AD HOMINEM..."
Two figures: an older bald man with glasses (the philosophy professor) and a younger man beside him.
Younger man: "SO, WHY DO YOU THINK AYN RAND WAS SO RIGHT?"
The professor's expression turns startled/displeased.
A young red-haired child in a yellow shirt sits up in a purple bed, speaking grandiosely to a woman (his mother) who sits beside him holding what appears to be a folded newspaper or sheet.
Child: "I AM AN EXCELLENT SLEEPER! IT IS NOT UNTO YOU TO DETERMINE WHEN BEDTIME BEGINS OR ENDS. SHOULD YOU CONTINUE TO ASSAULT MY GREATNESS, I SHALL BE FORCED TO RESIGN. I SLEEP FOR MYSELF, MOTHER. AND FOR NOBODY ELSE."
Caption (below panel): "On Tuesday, we switched back from Ayn Rand to Lewis Carroll."
Votey:
Title text: "HOW TO MAKE A STOIC PHILOSOPHY PROF USE AN AD HOMINEM..."
Two figures: an older bald man with glasses (the philosophy professor) and a younger man beside him.
Younger man: "SO, WHY DO YOU THINK AYN RAND WAS SO RIGHT?"
The professor's expression turns startled/displeased.
Alt text
A two-part SMBC comic. Main panel: a red-haired child in a yellow shirt sits up in a purple bed and lectures his mother, who sits beside him holding a folded sheet. The child declares in grandiose, Objectivist-flavored language: "I am an excellent sleeper! It is not unto you to determine when bedtime begins or ends. Should you continue to assault my greatness, I shall be forced to resign. I sleep for myself, mother. And for nobody else." Caption below: "On Tuesday, we switched back from Ayn Rand to Lewis Carroll." The joke: parents who read philosophy and literature to their kid see the child mimic whatever author was last read aloud. Votey (bonus panel): titled "How to make a stoic philosophy prof use an ad hominem..." A bald, bespectacled professor looks startled as a younger man beside him asks, "So, why do you think Ayn Rand was so right?" The gag: invoking Ayn Rand as a serious authority would provoke even a composed Stoic into an attack on the person.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.