2011-05-30
Original: 2011-05-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with reddish hair stands at a podium or front of a room, addressing an audience shown as blue silhouettes from behind. He recites a limerick.
Man: "There once was a man from Toledo with a very... respectful libido. His wife thinks he's...good for... respecting her personhood ...and finding the mission'ry neato."
Panel 2: An older woman with gray hair, hand on her cheek, smiling in the audience.
Older woman: "Tell the one about the man from the ruggery!"
Panel 3: The man looks weary.
Man: "*sigh*"
Panel 4: The man recites another limerick to the silhouetted audience.
Man: "There once was a man from a ruggery. He engaged in consensual hetero-sexual sex that was well within the confines of acceptable marital bedroom conduct... ery. His manner effete... Through a hole in the sheet he made babies...but rarely and grudgingly."
Panel 5: The older woman, hand on cheek, smiling.
Older woman: "Tell the one about the lady from Schmunt!"
Panel 6: The man, irritated.
Man: "Dammit, mom! I told you you're not invited to dirty limerick night!"
Panel 7: The older woman (his mom) looks taken aback.
Mom: "I told YOU to become a doctor!"
Votey:
The clean (sanitized) version of the lady-from-Schmunt limerick, shown as text:
"There once was a lady from schmunt
Anatomically, just what you'd want
No part of her body
Was large or shaped oddly
To say elsewise would be an affront"
Man: "There once was a man from Toledo with a very... respectful libido. His wife thinks he's...good for... respecting her personhood ...and finding the mission'ry neato."
Panel 2: An older woman with gray hair, hand on her cheek, smiling in the audience.
Older woman: "Tell the one about the man from the ruggery!"
Panel 3: The man looks weary.
Man: "*sigh*"
Panel 4: The man recites another limerick to the silhouetted audience.
Man: "There once was a man from a ruggery. He engaged in consensual hetero-sexual sex that was well within the confines of acceptable marital bedroom conduct... ery. His manner effete... Through a hole in the sheet he made babies...but rarely and grudgingly."
Panel 5: The older woman, hand on cheek, smiling.
Older woman: "Tell the one about the lady from Schmunt!"
Panel 6: The man, irritated.
Man: "Dammit, mom! I told you you're not invited to dirty limerick night!"
Panel 7: The older woman (his mom) looks taken aback.
Mom: "I told YOU to become a doctor!"
Votey:
The clean (sanitized) version of the lady-from-Schmunt limerick, shown as text:
"There once was a lady from schmunt
Anatomically, just what you'd want
No part of her body
Was large or shaped oddly
To say elsewise would be an affront"
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. A red-haired man performs limericks at what is implied to be "dirty limerick night" before an audience of blue silhouettes, but his limericks are absurdly sanitized and inoffensive. First he recites: "There once was a man from Toledo with a very... respectful libido. His wife thinks he's good for respecting her personhood and finding the mission'ry neato." A gray-haired older woman in the audience eagerly calls out, "Tell the one about the man from the ruggery!" The man sighs, then delivers an even more clinically chaste limerick about a man who "engaged in consensual heterosexual sex that was well within the confines of acceptable marital bedroom conduct," making babies "through a hole in the sheet, but rarely and grudgingly." The woman asks for another, and the man snaps, "Dammit, mom! I told you you're not invited to dirty limerick night!" His mom retorts, "I told YOU to become a doctor!" The joke is that the presence of his mother forces him to scrub all the dirtiness out of his dirty limericks. Votey (aftercomic): the clean version of the lady-from-Schmunt limerick reads: "There once was a lady from schmunt / Anatomically, just what you'd want / No part of her body / Was large or shaped oddly / To say elsewise would be an affront."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.