2014-08-18
Original: 2014-08-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Caption (yellow box at top): LINGUISTIC IDEA: "INTERNSHIP" AS SLANG FOR ANY UNPAID ACTIVITY THAT BENEFITS OTHERS.
A man with glasses and short brown hair (speaking): I have a three week internship with my in-laws this month.
(He is speaking to a woman with dark skin, dark hair, and rectangular glasses, shown in the foreground.)
Votey:
A simply-drawn smiling face (the same glasses-wearing man) says: Then I'm interning as a father for 18 years.
Caption (yellow box at top): LINGUISTIC IDEA: "INTERNSHIP" AS SLANG FOR ANY UNPAID ACTIVITY THAT BENEFITS OTHERS.
A man with glasses and short brown hair (speaking): I have a three week internship with my in-laws this month.
(He is speaking to a woman with dark skin, dark hair, and rectangular glasses, shown in the foreground.)
Votey:
A simply-drawn smiling face (the same glasses-wearing man) says: Then I'm interning as a father for 18 years.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A yellow caption box at the top reads: 'Linguistic idea: "internship" as slang for any unpaid activity that benefits others.' Below, two people face each other. A balding man with glasses says to a woman with dark hair and rectangular glasses, 'I have a three week internship with my in-laws this month.' In the votey (aftercomic), a crude doodle of the smiling man adds, 'Then I'm interning as a father for 18 years.' The joke reframes unpaid family obligations, including parenting, as never-ending unpaid internships.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.