2012-12-09

A red title banner reads: "My fantasy: build an A.I. smart enough to misunderstand puns." In the single panel, a man with orange hair (seen from behind) tells a dark-haired woman a pun: "Why are florists great kissers? They have tulips." The woman, scowling and seated at a bar with a beer mug beside her, answers in a yellow speech bubble, deadpan and literal: "Lips are necessary but not sufficient for good kissing" — dissecting the "two lips / tulips" pun like a logical proof instead of laughing. The votey aftercomic shows a handwritten note beside a drawn mug that continues the literal-minded rebuttal: "Two lips are standard and confer no kissing advantage, fool."