2014-05-17
Original: 2014-05-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (grinning, holding up his thumb between two fingers): GOT YER NOSE!
Child (alarmed): $!&#! back!
Panel 2:
Man: SORRY. YOUR NOSE IS NOW CONTAINED WITHIN AN INFINITELY COMPACTIFIED SPACETIME MANIFOLD.
Panel 3:
Man: I BELIEVE IT STILL EXISTS, BUT IN ORDER TO BE CERTAIN TO FREE THE GIGNAR, WE'D NEED MORE ENERGY THAN THE SUN HAS GENERATED IN THE LAST CENTURY AND A LINEAR COLLIDER RUNNING FROM HERE TO NEPTUNE.
Child (small, in foreground): ...
Panel 4:
Child (mouth open, distressed): Fwoooo...!
Man (leaning in, grinning): I CLAIM ACADEMIC PRIORITY IN THIS DISCOVERY!
Votey:
Large comic-style explosion graphic reading: BOOM!
Man (grinning, holding up his thumb between two fingers): GOT YER NOSE!
Child (alarmed): $!&#! back!
Panel 2:
Man: SORRY. YOUR NOSE IS NOW CONTAINED WITHIN AN INFINITELY COMPACTIFIED SPACETIME MANIFOLD.
Panel 3:
Man: I BELIEVE IT STILL EXISTS, BUT IN ORDER TO BE CERTAIN TO FREE THE GIGNAR, WE'D NEED MORE ENERGY THAN THE SUN HAS GENERATED IN THE LAST CENTURY AND A LINEAR COLLIDER RUNNING FROM HERE TO NEPTUNE.
Child (small, in foreground): ...
Panel 4:
Child (mouth open, distressed): Fwoooo...!
Man (leaning in, grinning): I CLAIM ACADEMIC PRIORITY IN THIS DISCOVERY!
Votey:
Large comic-style explosion graphic reading: BOOM!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A grinning man does the classic "got your nose" trick, tucking his thumb between his fingers, and says "GOT YER NOSE!" A worried child shouts "$!&#! back!" Panel 2: The man explains, deadpan, "SORRY. YOUR NOSE IS NOW CONTAINED WITHIN AN INFINITELY COMPACTIFIED SPACETIME MANIFOLD." Panel 3: He continues, "I BELIEVE IT STILL EXISTS, BUT IN ORDER TO BE CERTAIN TO FREE THE GIGNAR, WE'D NEED MORE ENERGY THAN THE SUN HAS GENERATED IN THE LAST CENTURY AND A LINEAR COLLIDER RUNNING FROM HERE TO NEPTUNE." The child stands silent in the foreground. Panel 4: The child's face crumples as it begins to cry ("Fwoooo...!") while the man leans in grinning and declares, "I CLAIM ACADEMIC PRIORITY IN THIS DISCOVERY!" The joke is treating the childhood nose-stealing prank as a real, irreversible physics result. Votey (aftercomic): a large red-and-yellow cartoon explosion burst reading "BOOM!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.