2010-04-11
Original: 2010-04-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Top instructional diagram, three labeled steps:
STEP 1: (drawing of paper with strips cut into it) CUT OUT STRIPS
STEP 2: (drawing of two strip edges being pasted together) PASTE BLANK SIDES TOGETHER
STEP 3: (drawing of a twisted loop) TWIST ONE, PASTE ENDS
Headline below the diagram:
AND YOU HAVE THE GEEK DATING MOBIUS STRIP!
Left strip panel (a man with curly red/orange hair and a blue shirt, looking glum):
Man: "IF I HANG AROUND HER, COMPLIMENTING HER CONSTANTLY IN A NON-THREATENING WAY, SHE'LL EVENTUALLY LOVE ME BACK."
Right strip panel (the same man, faintly smiling):
Man: "YYYYYYYYEP. ANY DAY NOW."
(The two strips are drawn as the two sides of a paper strip that, when twisted and pasted into a Mobius loop, makes the two statements continuous and endless.)
Votey:
A different man with light/blond wavy hair grins with a thought bubble.
Thought bubble: "OOH, PORNO."
STEP 1: (drawing of paper with strips cut into it) CUT OUT STRIPS
STEP 2: (drawing of two strip edges being pasted together) PASTE BLANK SIDES TOGETHER
STEP 3: (drawing of a twisted loop) TWIST ONE, PASTE ENDS
Headline below the diagram:
AND YOU HAVE THE GEEK DATING MOBIUS STRIP!
Left strip panel (a man with curly red/orange hair and a blue shirt, looking glum):
Man: "IF I HANG AROUND HER, COMPLIMENTING HER CONSTANTLY IN A NON-THREATENING WAY, SHE'LL EVENTUALLY LOVE ME BACK."
Right strip panel (the same man, faintly smiling):
Man: "YYYYYYYYEP. ANY DAY NOW."
(The two strips are drawn as the two sides of a paper strip that, when twisted and pasted into a Mobius loop, makes the two statements continuous and endless.)
Votey:
A different man with light/blond wavy hair grins with a thought bubble.
Thought bubble: "OOH, PORNO."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. At the top is a three-step craft diagram: Step 1 'Cut out strips' (paper with cut strips), Step 2 'Paste blank sides together' (two strip edges joined), Step 3 'Twist one, paste ends' (a twisted loop). A headline reads 'And you have the geek dating Mobius strip!' Below are two long vertical strip-shaped panels meant to be the two faces of a Mobius loop. In the left strip, a glum man with curly red hair and a blue shirt says, 'If I hang around her, complimenting her constantly in a non-threatening way, she'll eventually love me back.' In the right strip the same man says, 'Yyyyyyyyep. Any day now.' The joke: these two thoughts loop forever with no resolution, like a Mobius strip. Votey: a different man with wavy light hair grins with a thought bubble reading 'Ooh, porno.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.