2012-02-09
Original: 2012-02-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (form/header on a dark background):
For Science, Please Draw The Male Symbol Below:
Panel 2:
Woman (long dark hair): What's this for?
Woman (with reddish/brown hair): I give it to men on first dates.
Panel 3:
The drawn male symbol (circle with arrow) is labeled, with the arrow's shaft marked "2.3cm."
Woman (reddish/brown hair): Once we have sex, I compare the size of his penis to the size of the arrow tail.
Panel 4:
Woman (reddish/brown hair): That night I measure how long they drew the tail of the arrow.
Panel 5:
Woman (dark hair, holding up a sheet of paper): And behold! A pattern emerges!
Panel 6:
A scatter-plot graph. The vertical axis is labeled "large penis" at top and "small penis" at bottom; the horizontal axis is labeled "small tail" on the left and "large tail" on the right. Plotted points trend from lower-left to upper-right, suggesting a positive correlation.
Panel 7:
Woman (reddish/brown hair): Whoa.
Panel 8:
Woman (dark hair): Who's this guy? (pointing)
The pointing finger indicates a single outlier data point far in the upper-right (very large tail).
Panel 9:
Woman (dark hair, hand to mouth, looking dismayed): He died of blood loss.
Votey:
A cartoon gravestone, leaning, with the epitaph: HERE LIES BOB
For Science, Please Draw The Male Symbol Below:
Panel 2:
Woman (long dark hair): What's this for?
Woman (with reddish/brown hair): I give it to men on first dates.
Panel 3:
The drawn male symbol (circle with arrow) is labeled, with the arrow's shaft marked "2.3cm."
Woman (reddish/brown hair): Once we have sex, I compare the size of his penis to the size of the arrow tail.
Panel 4:
Woman (reddish/brown hair): That night I measure how long they drew the tail of the arrow.
Panel 5:
Woman (dark hair, holding up a sheet of paper): And behold! A pattern emerges!
Panel 6:
A scatter-plot graph. The vertical axis is labeled "large penis" at top and "small penis" at bottom; the horizontal axis is labeled "small tail" on the left and "large tail" on the right. Plotted points trend from lower-left to upper-right, suggesting a positive correlation.
Panel 7:
Woman (reddish/brown hair): Whoa.
Panel 8:
Woman (dark hair): Who's this guy? (pointing)
The pointing finger indicates a single outlier data point far in the upper-right (very large tail).
Panel 9:
Woman (dark hair, hand to mouth, looking dismayed): He died of blood loss.
Votey:
A cartoon gravestone, leaning, with the epitaph: HERE LIES BOB
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1, white text on a dark background reads: "For Science, Please Draw The Male Symbol Below:" Two women talk. The first (long dark hair) asks "What's this for?" The second (reddish-brown hair) replies, "I give it to men on first dates." A diagram of the male symbol (circle with arrow) appears, its arrow shaft labeled "2.3cm." She explains, "Once we have sex, I compare the size of his penis to the size of the arrow tail," and "That night I measure how long they drew the tail of the arrow." The dark-haired woman holds up a sheet of paper and announces, "And behold! A pattern emerges!" The paper shows a scatter plot: vertical axis from "small penis" (bottom) to "large penis" (top), horizontal axis from "small tail" (left) to "large tail" (right). The points trend upward to the right, a positive correlation. "Whoa," says one woman. The other points and asks, "Who's this guy?" indicating a lone outlier dot far in the upper-right corner (an enormous tail). In the final panel the dark-haired woman covers her mouth, dismayed, and says, "He died of blood loss." Votey: a leaning cartoon gravestone with the epitaph "HERE LIES BOB."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.