2013-05-16
Original: 2013-05-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded man in a dark suit (depicted as the poet John Greenleaf Whittier) speaks against a dark red background, looking forlorn.
Man: "For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'!"
Caption (below panel): John Greenleaf Whittier discovers he's too late for McDonald's breakfast.
Votey:
A close-up of the same man's face in rough black-and-white line art.
Man: "Dammit. Nothing rhymes with McMuffin."
A bearded man in a dark suit (depicted as the poet John Greenleaf Whittier) speaks against a dark red background, looking forlorn.
Man: "For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'!"
Caption (below panel): John Greenleaf Whittier discovers he's too late for McDonald's breakfast.
Votey:
A close-up of the same man's face in rough black-and-white line art.
Man: "Dammit. Nothing rhymes with McMuffin."
Alt text
A solemn bearded man in a dark suit, drawn to resemble the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, sits before a deep red background with a melancholy expression. His speech bubble quotes Whittier's famous lines: "For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'!" A caption beneath reads: "John Greenleaf Whittier discovers he's too late for McDonald's breakfast." The joke recasts the poet's lament about regret as grief over missing the breakfast cutoff. Votey (aftercomic): a rough black-and-white close-up of the same man's face as he mutters, "Dammit. Nothing rhymes with McMuffin" — lamenting that he can't even turn his disappointment into verse.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.