2014-11-05
Original: 2014-11-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Why do you buy me a dozen roses every Valentine's?
Man: To show how much I love you.
Panel 2:
Man: Well, real wages in your income bracket have increased 2% per year since our first date.
Panel 3:
Man: We've been dating for 20 years, so if love was 12 roses then, and is still 12 roses now, so that's 0.43% which...
Panel 4:
Woman: You love me 6.75% as much as you do back then? Andy! What's going on, Hank?!
Man (now labeled Andy/Hank): Does someone else occupy 18% of your heart?
Panel 5 (caption: LATER...):
Man: We have to be more cautious, Sheila.
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Votey:
A line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "LOVE EXPRESSED BY A ROSE" and the horizontal axis is labeled "TIME." The curve starts high on the left and decays steeply downward toward zero as time increases.
Woman: Why do you buy me a dozen roses every Valentine's?
Man: To show how much I love you.
Panel 2:
Man: Well, real wages in your income bracket have increased 2% per year since our first date.
Panel 3:
Man: We've been dating for 20 years, so if love was 12 roses then, and is still 12 roses now, so that's 0.43% which...
Panel 4:
Woman: You love me 6.75% as much as you do back then? Andy! What's going on, Hank?!
Man (now labeled Andy/Hank): Does someone else occupy 18% of your heart?
Panel 5 (caption: LATER...):
Man: We have to be more cautious, Sheila.
Text at bottom: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "LOVE EXPRESSED BY A ROSE" and the horizontal axis is labeled "TIME." The curve starts high on the left and decays steeply downward toward zero as time increases.
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A couple talks; the woman asks why the man buys her a dozen roses every Valentine's, and he says it's to show how much he loves her. He then launches into an economics argument: real wages in her income bracket have increased 2% per year since their first date, and since they've been dating 20 years and love was 12 roses then and is still 12 roses now, that works out to a tiny fraction of a percent. The woman, alarmed, accuses him of only loving her a fraction as much as before and demands to know what's going on, calling him by shifting names (Andy, Hank). He asks if someone else occupies 18% of her heart. In a final panel labeled LATER, he says they have to be more cautious, calling her Sheila, implying the relationship has spiraled into paranoid intrigue. The votey is a line graph titled 'Love expressed by a rose' on the vertical axis versus 'Time' on the horizontal axis, with a steeply decaying curve falling toward zero, suggesting a rose conveys ever-diminishing love over time.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.