2011-08-02
Original: 2011-08-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: WHY I HAVE NO FRIENDS, REASON #1729: UNIMPRESSIVE MINDBLOWING FACTS
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses (dark hair): Did you know that the word "recursion" contains the word "recursion" in ITSELF?
Second woman (in green shirt): Whoooa! That's amaz... You're an asshole.
Votey:
A hand-drawn doodle: the word "RECURSION" written at the top, with a tangle of looping arrows curving down and pointing to a second instance of the word "RECURSION" written at the bottom (illustrating the recursive self-reference).
Panel 1:
Woman with glasses (dark hair): Did you know that the word "recursion" contains the word "recursion" in ITSELF?
Second woman (in green shirt): Whoooa! That's amaz... You're an asshole.
Votey:
A hand-drawn doodle: the word "RECURSION" written at the top, with a tangle of looping arrows curving down and pointing to a second instance of the word "RECURSION" written at the bottom (illustrating the recursive self-reference).
Alt text
A two-panel-style SMBC comic. A yellow title banner reads: "WHY I HAVE NO FRIENDS, REASON #1729: UNIMPRESSIVE MINDBLOWING FACTS." In the main panel, a woman with glasses and dark hair excitedly tells a friend in a green shirt, "Did you know that the word 'recursion' contains the word 'recursion' in ITSELF?" The friend begins enthusiastically, "Whoooa! That's amaz..." then flatly finishes, "You're an asshole." The joke: the supposedly mind-blowing fact is just a trivially circular self-reference. Votey (bonus panel): a crude hand-drawn doodle showing the word "RECURSION" at the top and again at the bottom, connected by a chaotic tangle of looping arrows pointing from the top word down to the bottom word, visually mocking the recursive self-reference.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.