2013-10-29
Original: 2013-10-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with grey hair, glasses, and a suit gestures toward a framed picture on a green wall. The picture shows a green snake biting its own tail (an ouroboros) on a yellow background.
Man: IT IS AN ANCIENT SYMBOL SHOWING THE CYCLICAL AND RECURSIVE NATURE OF BEING.
Panel 2 (caption banner): 2,000 YEARS EARLIER...
An older bald, bearded man in a white toga throws up his hands in exasperation. A younger bearded man in a white toga stands behind him holding a stylus/brush, ready to draw.
Older man: I NEED A PICTURE THAT CONVEYS "AUTOFELLATIO SHOWN HERE" TO TOURISTS.
Votey:
Handwritten text on a white panel: Sorry to everyone with that tattoo.
A man with grey hair, glasses, and a suit gestures toward a framed picture on a green wall. The picture shows a green snake biting its own tail (an ouroboros) on a yellow background.
Man: IT IS AN ANCIENT SYMBOL SHOWING THE CYCLICAL AND RECURSIVE NATURE OF BEING.
Panel 2 (caption banner): 2,000 YEARS EARLIER...
An older bald, bearded man in a white toga throws up his hands in exasperation. A younger bearded man in a white toga stands behind him holding a stylus/brush, ready to draw.
Older man: I NEED A PICTURE THAT CONVEYS "AUTOFELLATIO SHOWN HERE" TO TOURISTS.
Votey:
Handwritten text on a white panel: Sorry to everyone with that tattoo.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a grey-haired man in glasses and a suit gestures at a framed picture of an ouroboros (a green snake biting its own tail) and explains, "It is an ancient symbol showing the cyclical and recursive nature of being." Panel two, captioned "2,000 years earlier...": a bald, bearded man in a toga throws up his hands and tells a younger toga-clad artist holding a brush, "I need a picture that conveys 'autofellatio shown here' to tourists." The joke: the lofty ouroboros symbol was supposedly invented as crude signage for a brothel. Votey aftercomic: handwritten text reading "Sorry to everyone with that tattoo."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.