2013-09-26
Original: 2013-09-26 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Sherlock Holmes (in deerstalker cap, smoking a pipe, facing right): PTHIRUS PUBIS. ... DOESN'T RING A BELL. SOUNDS LIKE HE'S A GREEK. PERHAPS A REVOLUTIONARY DISSIDENT TRYING TO WEAKEN MY RESOL-
Watson (a mustached man in a coat, seated): PUBIC LICE, HOLMES. IT'S PUBIC LICE. WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THAT OPIUM DEN?
Caption (below panel): Thus ended The Case of the Moribund Member.
Votey:
A crab louse (pubic louse), drawn with a tiny grinning human-like face, raises its legs/claws triumphantly: I'VE GOT YOU THIS TIME, HOLMES!
Sherlock Holmes (in deerstalker cap, smoking a pipe, facing right): PTHIRUS PUBIS. ... DOESN'T RING A BELL. SOUNDS LIKE HE'S A GREEK. PERHAPS A REVOLUTIONARY DISSIDENT TRYING TO WEAKEN MY RESOL-
Watson (a mustached man in a coat, seated): PUBIC LICE, HOLMES. IT'S PUBIC LICE. WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THAT OPIUM DEN?
Caption (below panel): Thus ended The Case of the Moribund Member.
Votey:
A crab louse (pubic louse), drawn with a tiny grinning human-like face, raises its legs/claws triumphantly: I'VE GOT YOU THIS TIME, HOLMES!
Alt text
A single-panel comic in a dim Victorian setting. Sherlock Holmes, in a deerstalker cap and smoking a pipe, faces right and muses: 'PTHIRUS PUBIS. Doesn't ring a bell. Sounds like he's a Greek. Perhaps a revolutionary dissident trying to weaken my resol-'. A mustached man (Watson) seated nearby interrupts: 'Pubic lice, Holmes. It's pubic lice. What were you doing in that opium den?' Pthirus pubis is the scientific name for the crab louse, so Holmes has mistaken his own STI diagnosis for a criminal adversary. A caption reads: 'Thus ended The Case of the Moribund Member.' Votey: a crudely drawn crab louse with a tiny grinning human face raises its legs in triumph and declares, 'I've got you this time, Holmes!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.