2014-09-28
Original: 2014-09-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top banner):
BROWSER PLUGIN IDEA:
[PIECE OF MILITARY HARDWARE]
↓
[ITS VALUE, EXPRESSED IN SCHOLARSHIPS]
Panel:
A man seen from behind, in profile, looks at a computer monitor displaying a news headline. The headline reads (the first lines in red, the rest in black):
"3,428 FULL RIDES TO HARVARD WERE DROPPED ON SYRIA EARLY THIS MORNING"
Below the headline is a small newspaper-style body of squiggled placeholder text and an illustration.
Votey:
OR THE REVERSE:
A SEMESTER AT HARVARD HAS BALLOONED UP TO 3.7% OF A TOMAHAWK MISSILE!
BROWSER PLUGIN IDEA:
[PIECE OF MILITARY HARDWARE]
↓
[ITS VALUE, EXPRESSED IN SCHOLARSHIPS]
Panel:
A man seen from behind, in profile, looks at a computer monitor displaying a news headline. The headline reads (the first lines in red, the rest in black):
"3,428 FULL RIDES TO HARVARD WERE DROPPED ON SYRIA EARLY THIS MORNING"
Below the headline is a small newspaper-style body of squiggled placeholder text and an illustration.
Votey:
OR THE REVERSE:
A SEMESTER AT HARVARD HAS BALLOONED UP TO 3.7% OF A TOMAHAWK MISSILE!
Alt text
A top caption pitches a browser plugin idea: it replaces any mention of a piece of military hardware with that hardware's value expressed in scholarships. Below, a man viewed from behind looks at a computer monitor showing a news headline. The headline reads, with the first part in red, "3,428 FULL RIDES TO HARVARD" followed in black by "WERE DROPPED ON SYRIA EARLY THIS MORNING," reframing a missile strike in terms of forgone education. The votey (aftercomic) shows the reverse conversion in handwritten text: "OR THE REVERSE: A SEMESTER AT HARVARD HAS BALLOONED UP TO 3.7% OF A TOMAHAWK MISSILE!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.