2010-12-10
Original: 2010-12-10 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (above the comic): HERODOTUS ALSO WROTE A HISTORY OF TEMP WORKERS
Panel 1: A bearded man in ancient Greek dress (a red toga-like garment) sits slumped at a desk in front of a large old computer monitor, looking weary.
Panel 2: A close-up of two bearded men in Greek attire beside the computer monitor. One of them (in a white toga with a yellow scarf/tie) speaks excitedly.
Speaker (man in white toga): DIENEKES! MR. XERXES PROMISES TO SEND SO MANY MEMORANDA THAT THEY SHALL BLOT OUT THE SUN!
Panel 3: A close-up of the first bearded man (in red), looking grim and determined, holding out a folder/binder with a pen clipped to it toward the other man. A third figure peers in from the background.
Dienekes (the determined man in red): THEN WE SHALL FILE IN THE SHADE!
Votey:
Caption banner at top: SOON...
A robed figure sits hunched at a piano (or piano-like console), playing it.
Thought bubble from the figure: THIS SUCKS.
Panel 1: A bearded man in ancient Greek dress (a red toga-like garment) sits slumped at a desk in front of a large old computer monitor, looking weary.
Panel 2: A close-up of two bearded men in Greek attire beside the computer monitor. One of them (in a white toga with a yellow scarf/tie) speaks excitedly.
Speaker (man in white toga): DIENEKES! MR. XERXES PROMISES TO SEND SO MANY MEMORANDA THAT THEY SHALL BLOT OUT THE SUN!
Panel 3: A close-up of the first bearded man (in red), looking grim and determined, holding out a folder/binder with a pen clipped to it toward the other man. A third figure peers in from the background.
Dienekes (the determined man in red): THEN WE SHALL FILE IN THE SHADE!
Votey:
Caption banner at top: SOON...
A robed figure sits hunched at a piano (or piano-like console), playing it.
Thought bubble from the figure: THIS SUCKS.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic titled 'HERODOTUS ALSO WROTE A HISTORY OF TEMP WORKERS,' parodying the famous Spartan line from the Battle of Thermopylae. Panel 1: a weary bearded man in ancient Greek dress slumps at a desk before a bulky old computer monitor. Panel 2: a fellow Greek in a white toga announces excitedly, 'DIENEKES! MR. XERXES PROMISES TO SEND SO MANY MEMORANDA THAT THEY SHALL BLOT OUT THE SUN!' Panel 3: the grim, determined man (Dienekes) holds out a folder and pen and replies, 'THEN WE SHALL FILE IN THE SHADE!' -- a pun on the historical 'Then we shall fight in the shade.' Votey (a black-and-white aftercomic captioned 'SOON...'): a robed figure hunches over a piano, thinking 'THIS SUCKS.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.