2011-01-11
Original: 2011-01-11 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: ENGINEER-CON 42
Panel 1: A bald, bespectacled older man in a suit with a dark red tie stands at a podium presenting.
Presenter: The hardware embeds directly into the person's molar. And, whenever they mix up "whom" and "who," the program automatically adds or subtracts the "m."
Panel 2: A young man with flame-like red/orange hair and a green shirt, looking distressed, raises his hand high.
Panel 3: The red-haired man's raised hand and shoulder are in the foreground; the presenter at his podium acknowledges him.
Presenter: Yes.
Panel 4: Close-up of the red-haired man, agitated.
Red-haired man: But people could be THINKING wrong! If I can't hear what they think, how can I let them know that I'm disdainful of their failure to master indirect object use?!
Panel 5: The red-haired man on the left, fist clenched; the presenter at his podium on the right.
Presenter: Maybe you could talk to them like human beings?
Red-haired man: I'M BEING SERIOUS!
Votey: A close-up of a different man's worried, sweating face. A speech bubble (from an unseen speaker, presumably the presenter) reads: Sorry... I can't help you with that... AT.
Panel 1: A bald, bespectacled older man in a suit with a dark red tie stands at a podium presenting.
Presenter: The hardware embeds directly into the person's molar. And, whenever they mix up "whom" and "who," the program automatically adds or subtracts the "m."
Panel 2: A young man with flame-like red/orange hair and a green shirt, looking distressed, raises his hand high.
Panel 3: The red-haired man's raised hand and shoulder are in the foreground; the presenter at his podium acknowledges him.
Presenter: Yes.
Panel 4: Close-up of the red-haired man, agitated.
Red-haired man: But people could be THINKING wrong! If I can't hear what they think, how can I let them know that I'm disdainful of their failure to master indirect object use?!
Panel 5: The red-haired man on the left, fist clenched; the presenter at his podium on the right.
Presenter: Maybe you could talk to them like human beings?
Red-haired man: I'M BEING SERIOUS!
Votey: A close-up of a different man's worried, sweating face. A speech bubble (from an unseen speaker, presumably the presenter) reads: Sorry... I can't help you with that... AT.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic set at a convention with a banner reading "ENGINEER-CON 42." A bald presenter in a suit at a podium explains a device that embeds in a person's molar and automatically corrects "whom" versus "who" by adding or subtracting the "m." A distressed young man with flame-like orange hair raises his hand and is called on. He frantically objects that people could still be THINKING the wrong word, and asks how he can let them know he's disdainful of their failure to master indirect object use if he can't hear their thoughts. The presenter suggests, "Maybe you could talk to them like human beings?" The man insists, "I'M BEING SERIOUS!" Votey: a close-up of a worried, sweating man as a voice says, "Sorry... I can't help you with that... AT." — a punchline mocking the grammar pedantry over ending a sentence with a preposition.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.