2013-03-24
Original: 2013-03-24 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: DADDY! IT'S APPROXIMATELY MY BIRTHDAY!
Panel 2:
Child: 1/365th OF MY LIFE IS BIRTHDAYS, SO IF WE SAY EVERY DAY IS MY BIRTHDAY, WE'RE WITHIN TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE OF THE TRUTH. TO SIMPLIFY OUR LIVES, WE CAN JUST SAY EVERY DAY IS MY BIRTHDAY.
Panel 3:
(The father stares, looking skeptical/unamused.)
Panel 4:
Father: OKAY, IT'S A DEAL. WE START TOMORROW.
Panel 5 (caption banner: LATER...):
Child: DID YOU GET ME LOTS OF PRESENTS?
Father: APPROXIMATELY.
Votey:
Text: BURN!
(A close-up of a face delivering the line.)
Child: DADDY! IT'S APPROXIMATELY MY BIRTHDAY!
Panel 2:
Child: 1/365th OF MY LIFE IS BIRTHDAYS, SO IF WE SAY EVERY DAY IS MY BIRTHDAY, WE'RE WITHIN TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE OF THE TRUTH. TO SIMPLIFY OUR LIVES, WE CAN JUST SAY EVERY DAY IS MY BIRTHDAY.
Panel 3:
(The father stares, looking skeptical/unamused.)
Panel 4:
Father: OKAY, IT'S A DEAL. WE START TOMORROW.
Panel 5 (caption banner: LATER...):
Child: DID YOU GET ME LOTS OF PRESENTS?
Father: APPROXIMATELY.
Votey:
Text: BURN!
(A close-up of a face delivering the line.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic plus an aftercomic. Panel 1: A small child excitedly tells her balding, bespectacled father, "Daddy! It's approximately my birthday!" Panel 2: The grinning child explains, "1/365th of my life is birthdays, so if we say every day is my birthday, we're within two orders of magnitude of the truth. To simplify our lives, we can just say EVERY day is my birthday." Panel 3: The father stares back, deadpan and skeptical. Panel 4: He relents, saying, "Okay, it's a deal. We start tomorrow." Panel 5, under a banner reading LATER: the child asks, "Did you get me lots of presents?" and the father flatly replies, "Approximately." Aftercomic (votey): a rough black-and-white close-up of a face shouting "BURN!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.