2015-01-18
Original: 2015-01-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with brown hair, smiling): My mom says humans only live to be about 80 years on average.
Panel 2:
Woman: If humans only live that long, how does anyone ever write a good book, understand history, or see the world or experience true self-knowledge?
Panel 3:
Man (with dark hair): Yeah, right!
Panel 4:
Woman: Think of all the stuff Leonardo did! You think all of that was done in under 10 years? HA!
Panel 5:
Woman: So, how long do people live?
Panel 6:
Woman: Given how confident old people are about politics? 500,000 years, minimum.
Panel 7:
Woman: My grampa knows the exact year when the country started to go downhill.
Panel 8:
Man: What a scholar!
Votey:
Caption (above an outline of an old man's head): He also knows which pundits are right.
Woman (with brown hair, smiling): My mom says humans only live to be about 80 years on average.
Panel 2:
Woman: If humans only live that long, how does anyone ever write a good book, understand history, or see the world or experience true self-knowledge?
Panel 3:
Man (with dark hair): Yeah, right!
Panel 4:
Woman: Think of all the stuff Leonardo did! You think all of that was done in under 10 years? HA!
Panel 5:
Woman: So, how long do people live?
Panel 6:
Woman: Given how confident old people are about politics? 500,000 years, minimum.
Panel 7:
Woman: My grampa knows the exact year when the country started to go downhill.
Panel 8:
Man: What a scholar!
Votey:
Caption (above an outline of an old man's head): He also knows which pundits are right.
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A smiling brown-haired woman tells a dark-haired man that her mom says humans live only about 80 years on average. She argues this can't be true: how could anyone write a good book, understand history, see the world, or achieve true self-knowledge in such a short time? She insists all of Leonardo's accomplishments couldn't have been done in under 10 years. When asked how long people actually live, she reasons that, given how confident old people are about politics, humans must live at least 500,000 years. She adds that her grampa knows the exact year the country started to go downhill, and the man replies, 'What a scholar!' Votey: a hand-drawn outline of an old man's head with the caption 'He also knows which pundits are right.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.