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2012-11-23

Original: 2012-11-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Genie (a large blue bearded genie rising from a hand-mirror): "I AM THE DICTIONARY GENIE! YOU MAY INVENT ONE NEW WORD!"
(A red-haired woman holds the mirror from which the genie emerges.)

Panel 2:
Woman: "'H-O-A-M-U-H-P-H-O-N-E'. HOAMUHPHONE. IT'S A SYNONYM FOR HOMONYM."

Panel 3:
(Close-up of the genie's face, looking disturbed and uneasy. No dialogue.)

Panel 4:
Woman: "YOU'RE A MONSTER."
(The genie, small in the background:) "NO."

Panel 5:
Woman (grinning): "I'M JUST A MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER WITH A SADISTIC STREAK."

Votey:
A simply-drawn smiling person says: "ALSO KNOWN AS A VETERAN"

Alt text

A five-panel comic. Panel 1: a large blue bearded genie rises out of a hand-mirror held by a red-haired woman and booms, "I AM THE DICTIONARY GENIE! YOU MAY INVENT ONE NEW WORD!" Panel 2: the woman calmly spells out, "'H-O-A-M-U-H-P-H-O-N-E'. HOAMUHPHONE. IT'S A SYNONYM FOR HOMONYM" -- a deliberately confusing word for word. Panel 3: a close-up of the genie's face looking deeply unsettled and disturbed. Panel 4: the genie, now small, protests "NO" as the woman declares, "YOU'RE A MONSTER." Panel 5: the woman grins wickedly and says, "I'M JUST A MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER WITH A SADISTIC STREAK." Votey: a simply-drawn smiling person adds, "ALSO KNOWN AS A VETERAN."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.