2012-05-06
Original: 2012-05-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A man with receding brown hair and glasses stands in profile, looking at a snowman he and a young girl have built in a snowy yard. The snowman has stick arms, a carrot nose, and an open, alarmed-looking mouth. Beside the snowman is a snow fort or wall built of snow "bricks," and a second partial snowman is visible at right. The young girl, with red hair and a yellow shirt over a purple dress, stands smiling proudly with her arms spread.
Caption (the girl, quoted): “The front has chambers of sodium-enriched ice, so when spring comes bullet holes will appear!”
Votey:
A hand-drawn diagram on white paper, titled in large block letters: “PLAN”. It shows a three-ball snowman sketch. Labels with arrows point to different parts:
- “Medium salt” → pointing to the head (with a single small hole drawn in it)
- “High salt” → pointing to the middle ball (which has several small holes drawn in it)
- “low salt” → pointing to the neck/upper-middle area
A man with receding brown hair and glasses stands in profile, looking at a snowman he and a young girl have built in a snowy yard. The snowman has stick arms, a carrot nose, and an open, alarmed-looking mouth. Beside the snowman is a snow fort or wall built of snow "bricks," and a second partial snowman is visible at right. The young girl, with red hair and a yellow shirt over a purple dress, stands smiling proudly with her arms spread.
Caption (the girl, quoted): “The front has chambers of sodium-enriched ice, so when spring comes bullet holes will appear!”
Votey:
A hand-drawn diagram on white paper, titled in large block letters: “PLAN”. It shows a three-ball snowman sketch. Labels with arrows point to different parts:
- “Medium salt” → pointing to the head (with a single small hole drawn in it)
- “High salt” → pointing to the middle ball (which has several small holes drawn in it)
- “low salt” → pointing to the neck/upper-middle area
Alt text
A man with glasses and receding brown hair stands looking at a snowman that he and a smiling red-haired girl have built in a snowy yard. The snowman has stick arms, a carrot nose, and an alarmed open mouth, and there's a snow-brick wall and a second snowman nearby. The girl, in a yellow shirt over a purple dress, stands proudly with arms spread. Caption (the girl): “The front has chambers of sodium-enriched ice, so when spring comes bullet holes will appear!” — the joke being that her snowman is engineered so that salt-enriched pockets melt faster, leaving bullet-hole-shaped voids as it thaws. Votey: a crude hand-drawn diagram labeled “PLAN” showing a three-ball snowman with arrows marking where different salt concentrations go — “Medium salt” at the head, “High salt” at the middle (drawn with several small holes), and “low salt” at the neck.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.