2014-10-29
Original: 2014-10-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Dark-haired person (Cox): "Hey, you're a physicist, Coxy. You explain, in layman's terms, why bubbles in soda go to the top, fall back down exactly once, then rise again?"
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses (the physicist): "Well, it's obvious that... that... Huh."
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: "Gimme a sec."
Panel 4:
(The woman sits at a computer/desk, intensely studying, surrounded by stacks of papers and books.)
Panel 5:
(Close-up of the woman, now looking haggard, exhausted, and wide-eyed with strain.)
Panel 6:
Woman with glasses: "Bubbles don't actually do that, do they."
Dark-haired person (Cox): "Aw! You lost six months of life!"
Votey:
The woman, now drawn in a rough, scratchy, aged style with sunken features (an aged caricature resembling an old man), speaks through her teeth:
Woman: "I'm still publishing."
Dark-haired person (Cox): "Hey, you're a physicist, Coxy. You explain, in layman's terms, why bubbles in soda go to the top, fall back down exactly once, then rise again?"
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses (the physicist): "Well, it's obvious that... that... Huh."
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: "Gimme a sec."
Panel 4:
(The woman sits at a computer/desk, intensely studying, surrounded by stacks of papers and books.)
Panel 5:
(Close-up of the woman, now looking haggard, exhausted, and wide-eyed with strain.)
Panel 6:
Woman with glasses: "Bubbles don't actually do that, do they."
Dark-haired person (Cox): "Aw! You lost six months of life!"
Votey:
The woman, now drawn in a rough, scratchy, aged style with sunken features (an aged caricature resembling an old man), speaks through her teeth:
Woman: "I'm still publishing."
Alt text
A six-panel comic. Panel 1: A dark-haired person asks a bespectacled woman, "Hey, you're a physicist, Coxy. You explain, in layman's terms, why bubbles in soda go to the top, fall back down exactly once, then rise again?" Panel 2: The woman replies, "Well, it's obvious that... that... Huh." Panel 3: She says, "Gimme a sec." Panel 4: She is hunched over a computer desk buried in stacks of papers and books, studying intensely. Panel 5: A close-up shows her looking exhausted, gaunt, and wide-eyed with strain. Panel 6: She concludes, "Bubbles don't actually do that, do they." The dark-haired person cheerfully responds, "Aw! You lost six months of life!" The joke: she wrecked herself trying to explain a phenomenon that wasn't even real. Votey (aftercomic): The woman is now drawn as a haggard, aged caricature with sunken, withered features, gritting her teeth and insisting, "I'm still publishing."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.