2012-12-20
Original: 2012-12-20 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A gray-haired person in a maroon blazer and blue shirt stands in front of a green chalkboard, holding a piece of chalk, addressing the viewer.
Speaker (lecturer): "The U in 'BUTT' is a graph of how funny the word 'BUTT' is over the course of the day. The Ns in 'INCONTINENT' are graphs of need for diapers over a lifetime. The J in 'GRAPH JOKE' is a graph of how angry you are over time spent reading graph jokes."
Caption below the panel:
Graphograph [graf-oh-graf] noun:
A word in which a letter within the word represents a function related to the word.
Votey:
A hand-drawn graph. The vertical axis is labeled "ANGER" and the horizontal axis is labeled "TIME READING GRAPH JOKES." The curve starts high on the left, dips down to a low point near the bottom, then shoots steeply upward on the right.
Annotations along the curve, left to right:
- At the high left start: "LIFE IS A CHARADE OF SORROW"
- Just past the dip: "OOH JOKES!"
- Near the bottom of the dip: "WAIT... WHAT SORT OF JOKES-"
- Along the steep rising right side: "NOOOOO!"
A gray-haired person in a maroon blazer and blue shirt stands in front of a green chalkboard, holding a piece of chalk, addressing the viewer.
Speaker (lecturer): "The U in 'BUTT' is a graph of how funny the word 'BUTT' is over the course of the day. The Ns in 'INCONTINENT' are graphs of need for diapers over a lifetime. The J in 'GRAPH JOKE' is a graph of how angry you are over time spent reading graph jokes."
Caption below the panel:
Graphograph [graf-oh-graf] noun:
A word in which a letter within the word represents a function related to the word.
Votey:
A hand-drawn graph. The vertical axis is labeled "ANGER" and the horizontal axis is labeled "TIME READING GRAPH JOKES." The curve starts high on the left, dips down to a low point near the bottom, then shoots steeply upward on the right.
Annotations along the curve, left to right:
- At the high left start: "LIFE IS A CHARADE OF SORROW"
- Just past the dip: "OOH JOKES!"
- Near the bottom of the dip: "WAIT... WHAT SORT OF JOKES-"
- Along the steep rising right side: "NOOOOO!"
Alt text
An SMBC comic defining a fake dictionary word. Main panel: a gray-haired lecturer in a maroon blazer stands at a green chalkboard holding chalk, saying that the U in 'BUTT' is a graph of how funny the word 'BUTT' is over the day, the Ns in 'INCONTINENT' are graphs of diaper need over a lifetime, and the J in 'GRAPH JOKE' is a graph of how angry you are over time spent reading graph jokes. A caption defines: 'Graphograph [graf-oh-graf] noun: A word in which a letter within the word represents a function related to the word.' Votey: a hand-drawn chart with vertical axis 'ANGER' and horizontal axis 'TIME READING GRAPH JOKES.' The curve starts high (labeled 'LIFE IS A CHARADE OF SORROW'), dips to a low ('OOH JOKES!' then 'WAIT... WHAT SORT OF JOKES-'), then spikes sharply upward (labeled 'NOOOOO!'), depicting the reader's rising anger as the joke is revealed to be a graph joke.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.