2010-03-23
Original: 2010-03-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A grassy hilltop landscape. In the foreground, a circular trap area outlined in red with two Rubik's Cubes stacked on it, sitting under a propped-up wooden stick. A hand-lettered sign reads: "Free Rubik's Cubes!". In the background, the top of a hairy man's head pokes up over a mossy hill.
Panel 2: A burly, naked, hairy man with long hair and a beard, leaves stuck to him, peers over the mossy hill, eyeing the cubes. (No dialogue.)
Panel 3: The hairy man stands and reaches toward the two Rubik's Cubes now resting on the wooden plank of the trap. (No dialogue.)
Panel 4: The man has fallen on his back, the propped stick having sprung the trap. He grins and holds up a Rubik's Cube triumphantly. A small playing card and a die lie scattered nearby. A large bare human foot enters from the right edge of the panel, stepping toward him. (No dialogue.)
Panel 5: An indoor scene. A blond, bearded man gestures while talking to a gray-haired older woman holding a coffee cup at a table.
Blond man: "HOW DOES YOUR DEPARTMENT FIND SO MANY FIRST RATE MATHEMATICIANS?"
Gray-haired woman: "WELL..."
Votey:
Title banner at top: "ENGINEERS".
A man crouches at a desk reaching toward a keyboard/trap. A sign mounted on a post in front of him reads: "FREE OSCILLOSCOPES!" with three downward-pointing arrows beneath the text.
Panel 2: A burly, naked, hairy man with long hair and a beard, leaves stuck to him, peers over the mossy hill, eyeing the cubes. (No dialogue.)
Panel 3: The hairy man stands and reaches toward the two Rubik's Cubes now resting on the wooden plank of the trap. (No dialogue.)
Panel 4: The man has fallen on his back, the propped stick having sprung the trap. He grins and holds up a Rubik's Cube triumphantly. A small playing card and a die lie scattered nearby. A large bare human foot enters from the right edge of the panel, stepping toward him. (No dialogue.)
Panel 5: An indoor scene. A blond, bearded man gestures while talking to a gray-haired older woman holding a coffee cup at a table.
Blond man: "HOW DOES YOUR DEPARTMENT FIND SO MANY FIRST RATE MATHEMATICIANS?"
Gray-haired woman: "WELL..."
Votey:
Title banner at top: "ENGINEERS".
A man crouches at a desk reaching toward a keyboard/trap. A sign mounted on a post in front of him reads: "FREE OSCILLOSCOPES!" with three downward-pointing arrows beneath the text.
Alt text
A five-panel comic. Panel 1: a grassy hilltop where a hand-lettered "Free Rubik's Cubes!" sign sits beside a primitive trap a circle marked in red, two Rubik's Cubes as bait under a propped-up stick. A hairy man's head peeks over a mossy hill in the distance. Panel 2: the burly, naked, hairy bearded man eyes the cubes from behind the hill. Panel 3: he stands and reaches for the cubes. Panel 4: he's fallen on his back, having sprung the trap, grinning and holding up a Rubik's Cube in triumph as a giant human foot steps in from the right to capture him like prey. Panel 5: indoors, a blond bearded man asks a gray-haired woman, "How does your department find so many first rate mathematicians?" She begins, "Well..." The joke: mathematicians are caught in the wild by baiting traps with Rubik's Cubes. Votey panel, titled "ENGINEERS": a man reaches toward a desk trap baited by a sign reading "FREE OSCILLOSCOPES!" with arrows pointing down implying engineers are trapped the same way, with different bait.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.