2010-08-31
Original: 2010-08-31 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Sherlock Holmes (a detective in a coat and deerstalker-style hat, gesturing): "Aha, Watson! You can see from the arrangement of the room that there has been a great increase in entropy. This suggests that the murder occurred some time in the PAST."
(In the scene: a dead man lies on the floor in the foreground with a sword/dagger stuck in his bloodied back. Watson, a man with a mustache, stands in the background watching.)
Caption (below panel): Fortunately, Sherlock Holmes never studied physics.
Votey:
Holmes (close-up, looking strained): "S = k ln W, my dear Watson."
"S = k lnâ" (overlapping speech bubble) "THE BODY IS RIGHT THERE!"
Sherlock Holmes (a detective in a coat and deerstalker-style hat, gesturing): "Aha, Watson! You can see from the arrangement of the room that there has been a great increase in entropy. This suggests that the murder occurred some time in the PAST."
(In the scene: a dead man lies on the floor in the foreground with a sword/dagger stuck in his bloodied back. Watson, a man with a mustache, stands in the background watching.)
Caption (below panel): Fortunately, Sherlock Holmes never studied physics.
Votey:
Holmes (close-up, looking strained): "S = k ln W, my dear Watson."
"S = k lnâ" (overlapping speech bubble) "THE BODY IS RIGHT THERE!"
Alt text
A detective comic. Main panel: Sherlock Holmes, in a coat and hat, stands in a dim room and declares to Watson, who watches from behind, "Aha, Watson! You can see from the arrangement of the room that there has been a great increase in entropy. This suggests that the murder occurred some time in the PAST." In the foreground lies a dead man with a bloody sword stuck in his back. Caption below: "Fortunately, Sherlock Holmes never studied physics" â the joke being that a real increase in entropy can't pinpoint when something happened, since entropy always increases. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of a strained Holmes intoning the entropy formula "S = k ln W, my dear Watson" and starting to repeat it, while another speech bubble cuts him off shouting "THE BODY IS RIGHT THERE!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.