2010-08-12
Original: 2010-08-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with red hair in a lab coat, holding a sheet of paper: "What's the most positive way to say 98%."
A man in a lab coat with glasses: "Hmm..."
Panel 2 (banner reads "LATER..."):
An elderly patient lying in a hospital bed: "Tell me, doc... what are the odds I don't survive another week?"
The red-haired woman in a lab coat, now standing beside the bed: "A+!"
Votey:
Close-up of the red-haired woman doctor, grinning: "You're the ward valedictorian!"
A woman with red hair in a lab coat, holding a sheet of paper: "What's the most positive way to say 98%."
A man in a lab coat with glasses: "Hmm..."
Panel 2 (banner reads "LATER..."):
An elderly patient lying in a hospital bed: "Tell me, doc... what are the odds I don't survive another week?"
The red-haired woman in a lab coat, now standing beside the bed: "A+!"
Votey:
Close-up of the red-haired woman doctor, grinning: "You're the ward valedictorian!"
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: A red-haired woman in a lab coat holding a paper asks a bespectacled male colleague, "What's the most positive way to say 98%." He replies, "Hmm..." A banner reads "LATER..." Panel 2: An elderly patient in a hospital bed asks the red-haired doctor, "Tell me, doc... what are the odds I don't survive another week?" Beaming, she answers, "A+!" — reframing his 98% chance of dying as a top grade. Votey: A close-up of the grinning doctor adding, "You're the ward valedictorian!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.