2014-11-12
Original: 2014-11-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A hand-drawn line graph with two curves.
Y-axis label (top, in red): "GREAT IDEAS FOR A PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE"
Y-axis label (lower, in blue): "SADNESS"
X-axis label: "KNOWLEDGE OF MAGNETS"
The red curve ("great ideas for a perpetual motion machine") starts low, rises to a tall jagged peak early on, then declines in jagged steps toward zero as knowledge of magnets increases.
The blue curve ("sadness") starts high, dips down to a low point in the middle, then rises steadily to a high level as knowledge of magnets increases.
Votey:
A boxed list.
Heading (black): "UNITS:"
"KILOROSSIS" (in red)
"MILLINCHOLY" (in blue)
"YOTTAJUGGALOES" (in black)
Y-axis label (top, in red): "GREAT IDEAS FOR A PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE"
Y-axis label (lower, in blue): "SADNESS"
X-axis label: "KNOWLEDGE OF MAGNETS"
The red curve ("great ideas for a perpetual motion machine") starts low, rises to a tall jagged peak early on, then declines in jagged steps toward zero as knowledge of magnets increases.
The blue curve ("sadness") starts high, dips down to a low point in the middle, then rises steadily to a high level as knowledge of magnets increases.
Votey:
A boxed list.
Heading (black): "UNITS:"
"KILOROSSIS" (in red)
"MILLINCHOLY" (in blue)
"YOTTAJUGGALOES" (in black)
Alt text
A hand-drawn line graph. The horizontal axis is labeled "KNOWLEDGE OF MAGNETS." The vertical axis has two labels: in red, "GREAT IDEAS FOR A PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE," and in blue, "SADNESS." The red curve spikes to a tall jagged peak when magnet knowledge is low, then drops off toward zero as knowledge increases. The blue sadness curve starts high, dips to a low point in the middle, then climbs to a high level as magnet knowledge grows. The joke: knowing more about magnets kills your perpetual-motion dreams and brings sadness, while ignorance keeps the wild ideas flowing. Votey: a boxed list headed "UNITS:" listing pun units of measurement—"KILOROSSIS" (red, a pun on kilo/Rossi, an infamous perpetual-motion claimant), "MILLINCHOLY" (blue, a pun on melancholy), and "YOTTAJUGGALOES" (black, a pun on yotta + Juggalos, fans famously baffled by how magnets work).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.