2014-01-25
Original: 2014-01-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A young person with reddish-brown hair, wearing a red shirt, sits talking with an elderly man who has a white beard, glasses, and is balding. The old man holds a tobacco pipe and sits in a wooden chair.
Young person: WOW! PEOPLE EVEN SAID THAT IN PRIVATE? SERIOUSLY? WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO LIVE IN SUCH A REPRESSED ERA?
Old man: WELL, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WE DIDN'T SEE IT THAT WAY AT THE TIME.
Caption (below panel): Back when this comic was written, PornBox was called "Internet."
Votey:
ALSO, ANALOG PORN WAS CALLED "SEX"
A young person with reddish-brown hair, wearing a red shirt, sits talking with an elderly man who has a white beard, glasses, and is balding. The old man holds a tobacco pipe and sits in a wooden chair.
Young person: WOW! PEOPLE EVEN SAID THAT IN PRIVATE? SERIOUSLY? WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO LIVE IN SUCH A REPRESSED ERA?
Old man: WELL, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WE DIDN'T SEE IT THAT WAY AT THE TIME.
Caption (below panel): Back when this comic was written, PornBox was called "Internet."
Votey:
ALSO, ANALOG PORN WAS CALLED "SEX"
Alt text
A single-panel comic. An elderly bald man with a white beard and glasses sits in a wooden chair holding a tobacco pipe, talking to a young person with reddish-brown hair in a red shirt who leans in eagerly. The young person asks, "WOW! PEOPLE EVEN SAID THAT IN PRIVATE? SERIOUSLY? WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO LIVE IN SUCH A REPRESSED ERA?" The old man replies, "WELL, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WE DIDN'T SEE IT THAT WAY AT THE TIME." A caption below reads: "Back when this comic was written, PornBox was called 'Internet.'" The joke is a future framing where today's norms are seen as repressed and familiar things have been renamed. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn panel reading "ALSO, ANALOG PORN WAS CALLED 'SEX'" — extending the joke by renaming sex as 'analog porn.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.